Nawałka has almost agreed all the details of the contract with Cezary Kulesza, and then the president of the Polish Football Association … sent him to the bench. He considered it a safe fallback option and began talking to Andriy Shevchenko. – If the Polish Football Association offers a salary of EUR 3 million a year, Andriy can sit down for talks – we heard in the environment of Shevchenko, who earned about USD 3 million in the Ukrainian national team (officially 720,000, the rest was paid by sponsors).
He has his own idea, which is primarily an opponent of foreign options due to the ignorance of the Polish market. – There is no better solution: we should take the pair of selectors Nawałka – Brzęczek. Tell them: “Gentlemen, only you know this team. You know how to react, what mistakes you made, how to arrange it. Take it and save it” – said the former coach (2009-2012) and the current coach of Perpetual Krakow in an interview with.
In December, the duo of selectors was proposed by Michał Listkiewicz, former president of the Polish Football Association. – First of all, Adam Nawałka. He left halfway, probably not entirely because of his fault and at his request, and he had with her – apart from the unsuccessful performance at the World Cup in Russia – very good results. I believe that you should talk to Jerzy Engel to help Adam in the first period – preparation for the play-offs, because today you have to put out the fire. I can see the Nawałka-Engel tandem.
These types of solutions are rare; Probably the most popular example of a coaching duo are Lars Lagerbaeck and Tommy Soedeberg, who in 2000-2004 advanced to the 1/8 finals of the 2002 World Cup and to the 1/8 finals of Euro 2004. Lagerbaeck repeated this maneuver a few years later: in 2013 (after two years with the national team of Iceland) Heimir Hallgrimsson became his co-coach. The team under their leadership advanced to the quarter-finals of Euro 2016, and after the French tournament, Lagerbaeck left. Hallgrimsson advanced with the team to the 2018 World Cup.
Smuda: I believe that Nawałka and Brzęczek will make it
Smuda argues that the great advantage of the duo will be financial considerations and the fact that “together they will cost much less than the foreign miracle worker and his staff”. – If they succeed, and I believe they will succeed, we will have a script for the best film production. Nawałka and Brzęczek, like retired generals, are mobilized into the army, because their homeland, Polish football is in need and they are winning the battle – Smuda dreamed.
Jerzy Brzęczek has been unemployed since his dismissal in the Polish national team; Nawałka, after leaving the Polish national team after the 2018 World Cup, worked only for a few months in Lech Poznań. The first and most important task of the new coach will be a promotion to the 2022 World Cup. To do this, you have to defeat two rivals in the March play-offs: on March 24 the Poles will play against Russia, and the winner on March 29 will play against Sweden or the Czech Republic at home.
Source: Sport
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