Maciej Skorża left Lech Pozna completely unexpectedly for “personal and life reasons”. The club announced this on June 6. Lech Poznan fought to remain the coach, but the coach’s decision At this point it was irreversible. – We think that we do not say “goodbye” to the coach, but “see you later” – said the president, Karol Klimchak. Lech Pozna faces a difficult choice for Maciej Skorża’s successor. Only one coach seems to be a natural continuation – his longtime assistant Rafai Janas.
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Lech wants a potential new coach to team up with the old coaching staff, which is hard to accept for some candidates. Some coaches, during conversations with Lech, indicated that there are high risks involved in taking on the team That was shortly before the UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds. They expressed their willingness to take on the champion of Ekstraklasa, but at some time, for example in August. They decided that a quick stumble in the European Cups (possible in the circumstances) would affect their further work in Poznan.
Andrei JoskoviakAnd the Scouts of Lech Poznan, who in recent months have contributed strongly, among other things, to very successful transfers of players such as Joel Pereira And the Pedro Rebucho (Earlier also to bring Pedro Tebe And the Joao Amarala), he admitted in an interview with TVP Pozna that coaches from Portugal contact him.
In turn, Piotr Koźmiński (WP) reported that one of the trainers associated with Lech Poznań is Portuguese. Jorge Simaowhich has performed in the European Cups, among others Pacos de FerreiraHe also has experience working abroad.Mouscron in Belgium And the Al-Fayha’ in Kingdom Saudi Arabia). According to the journalist, talks with the second Portuguese coach, who manages “the first Portuguese league club and not from the bottom of the standings”, failed.
Among the more than 60 biographies that have been sent to Lech Pozna in the last twelve hours or so, there are many famous.
Among other things, apply Swede Sven-Goran Eriksson. This highly titled 74-year-old coach was most recently (2018-2019) head coach of the national team philippines. However, his coaching resume is amazing.
Sven-Goran Eriksson has won European awards:
- UEFA Cup (1982 with IFK Sven-Göran Eriksson),
- Cup Winners’ Cup and European Super Cup (1999 with Lazio).
He was with the club from Rome too Italian Champion (2000)In Italy he also ran clubs such as
- Rome ,
- Sampdoria,
- Fiorentina.
He was also a coach for clubs such as:
- Benfica (Portugal),
- Manchester City (England),
- Leicester City (England)And the
- Guangzhou, China),
- Shanghai SIPG (China),
- Shenzhen Football Club (China).
The national teams are a separate chapter in the Swede’s coaching career. Sven-Goran Eriksson was The first ever foreign coach for the England national teamWho drove famous people like David Beckham or youth Wayne Rooney. He was eliminated with England in the quarter-finals of the major tournaments: during the 2002 World Cup with Brazil, during Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup with Portugal. In the role of the limiter, without success, he was also in the lead Ivory Coast (The difficult group of the 2010 World Cup with the Swedes “atheists” – Brazil and Portugal) and Mexico.
Sending a CV by the Swede should be treated in the category of curiosity, Lech Poznan as a coach of this financial shelf (despite his age), he simply cannot afford, moreover, the club simply has a different approach to hiring a coach. Sven-Goran Eriksson’s request for Ekstraklasa Club has not been made for the first time. In 2010, his agents sent his autobiography to Legia Warszawa, which was then led by … Maciej Skorża.
Among the dozens of applications in which the powers of Lech Poznan were revealed, there is also a biography England’s Alan Pardew. Former coach of famous English clubs (incl. West Ham, Southampton, Crystal Palace, Newcastle, West Bromwich Albion), I drove recently CSKA Sofia. On June 1, however, he left the Bulgarian club. As he claims – due to the racist behavior of the fans towards football players.
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