Czes³aw Michniewicz explained 711 connections to “The Hairdresser”

This topic returns now, because it also returns alone. On Saturday afternoon, the service was the first to announce that the former Legia Warszawa coach would be the new coach. “I admit that I strongly support Czesław Michniewicz becoming the selector. But the possibilities will open” – wrote investigative journalist of Wirtualna Polska Szymon Jadczak on Twitter.

Zbigniew Boniek defended Michniewicz in 2017

., nickname “The Barber”. The famous 711 connections between Michniewicz and “Fryzjer” – a former football activist who was responsible for corruption in Polish football. The case was investigated by the Wrocław prosecutor’s office. In 2009, Michniewicz himself joined her. He never hid that he knew the “Hairdresser” from the times of Amica Wronka, where Ryszard F. was one of the activists, and Michniewicz was a reserve goalkeeper. In the course of his testimony, he admitted that he had talked or tried to talk to the “Hairdresser” 711 times, but never heard any corruption charges.

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Michniewicz has not come back to it in recent years, but he has been drawn to it. It was also in 2017, when he entrusted Michniewicz with running the Polish national team under the age of 21. Then the president of the Polish Football Association himself referred to the matter.

Boniek then said this: – There is one issue that I want to raise, because I do not want my colleague Michniewicz to refer to it. Due to the fact that we are in Poland and we have our “Polish atmosphere”. Another colleague Czesław [Michiewicz] he did not become a coach of the U-21 team, and some of them spoke about his past, because we are. On the day I decided to talk to Michniewicz about running the Polish national team, I called the prosecutor’s office in Wrocław. I spoke with the prosecutor Krzysztof Grzeszczak, who dealt with the entire corruption process in Polish football and allowed me to quote and quote what he said. And he said: “Mr. Czesław [Michniewicz] she is an absolutely pure person. There are no contraindications against him for being a coach. There are no accusations. Like many others, he was questioned as a witness in a case known to all. The topic for the prosecutor’s office is finished “- said Boniek and suggested to journalists not to come back to this topic again.

Michniewicz describes the events of 2004

But journalists keep coming back and going back. In 2017, the website even addressed the prosecutor’s office in Wrocław after Bonek’s words, which, through the spokeswoman, Katarzyna Bylicka, said that “even if that was the statement by Zbigniew Bonek, it is not a faithful reproduction of the information provided by the prosecutor” and that “was not used at the time this conversation of the phrases: Mr. Czesław is an absolutely pure person, and the content of the prosecutor’s statement was informative, not opinion-forming, because in connection with the person of Mr. Czesław Michniewicz, prosecutor Krzysztof Grzeszczak never issued any opinions “.

However, before Boniek appealed, and later Bylicka responded to his appeal, Michniewicz himself commented on this matter. Few probably remember it anymore, because he did it in 2010 on a website that was founded by his friend, journalist Krzysztof Stanowski.

In his long argument, Michniewicz returned to the times when he was Lech’s coach. He presented facts related to the matches against Dawn Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki and Górnik Polkowice, in which the line-up was allegedly involved. He said, among other things, that in the first match, although losing 0: 1, he put up the strongest line-up possible, and the second one simply won 2: 0, although he received an ambiguous offer before the match, and after the victory with Górnik one of his players “approached him and said the team has a special bonus from another team for this win. “

“I was a young wolf, hungry for success”

– I think about the matches, the two that are mentioned in the context of my name, I have explained everything. I would like to emphasize once again that I submitted explanations to the prosecutor’s office of my own free will and as a witness, and I did it to clarify the issue of the division of money on the coach after the game with Górnik Polkowice, hoping that my explanations will not only help clarify this matter. At the same time, at the time, I myself did not know how the prosecution would approach the matter of the third party bonus for the game with maximum commitment. The prosecutor’s office never brought any charges against me, never called me for questioning again, I am not a crown witness (as confirmed by the head of prosecutors, Jerzy Kasiura), as some coaches in the community, whom I have always beaten regularly and which hurt them very much, say. I myself am waiting impatiently for the full clarification of the Dawn game. I would like to add that it was my first season in the league, I was a “young wolf”, eager for success, I realized my biggest dreams – said Michniewicz.

And he also talked a lot about contacts with “The Barber”, about those 711 connections that are now coming back like a boomerang. – I am very sorry that the findings of the prosecutor’s office are so downplayed by journalists. There are people who did not talk to Ryszard F. and have a dozen or so charges, and there are also those who have spoken five times and have five charges from those five conversations. And there are also people like me that have spoken many times and have no complaints. This shows best that it was not the number of phone calls, and the content of those calls that was very important. A well-known journalist told me recently that at that time, who did not know F., it means that he was nobody, although many of those who knew him very well had mastered the “light darkness” – added Michniewicz weszło.com. The whole thing.