Franek Smuda national squad coach?

MareGaea:

Notorious Beenhakker...He did quite a lot for the PL team, in fact the PL team did well under him for the first time in years. And besides, it's not only the coach; if the team has no quality or not enough quality, you can coach all you want, it never will work.

Polonius3Threads: 1,005 Posts: 4,833 Joined: Apr 11, 08	Oct 30, 09, 11:00 / #
Any Polish footie fans have any strong feelings or conmments about Franciszek Smuda, named to replace the notorious Beenhakker? Wil a change of coach alone give Poland a new lease of life? Can the PZPN be reformed and survive or should it be replaced by an entirely new and different structure with new people in charge? Can the Górski glory days ever return???

MareGaeaThreads: 45 Posts: 5,527 Joined: Feb 6, 08	Oct 30, 09, 11:08 / #
Polonius3 Notorious Beenhakker...He did quite a lot for the PL team, in fact the PL team did well under him for the first time in years. And besides, it's not only the coach; if the team has no quality or not enough quality, you can coach all you want, it never will work. >^..^< M-G (what is your name? Polonius3. What is your occupation? Opening threads - so far I have opened nearly 500 of them)

gumishuThreads: 17 Posts: 3,943 Joined: Apr 6, 09	Oct 30, 09, 13:37 / #
MareGaea: Notorious Beenhakker...He did quite a lot for the PL team, in fact the PL team did well under him for the first time in years. And besides, it's not only the coach; if the team has no quality or not enough quality, you can coach all you want, it never will work. you can build a very solid team of average players - it's because football is a team sport - (I recommend you look on how Romania fared in the 90's)- you just need to know how to approach it - Smuda did quite well with teaching Polish club teams how to play footbal - sometimes it just takes more time - when there is less talent around

MareGaeaThreads: 45 Posts: 5,527 Joined: Feb 6, 08	Edited by: MareGaea Oct 31, 09, 13:30 / #
gumishu Look at Greece. They had an average team and yet they became European Champion in 2004; mainly because Portugal had a team of collected egos. If Portugal had any bit of a team back then, they would've kicked the cr*p out of the Greek. This is a thing that has killed the Dutch team repeatedly, but I think right now they have a decent team, well balanced and van Marwijk has done a great job, better than van Basten. I have a feeling that they could go far this time. My ideal final would be next year's final between Netherlands and Spain - the two best teams in Europe at the moment (number 2 and 3 on the FIFA world list); surely that would produce a great game. Or perhaps not, we will see. >^..^< M-G (hopes NL will be the next Champion of the World - wouldn't surprise me as a World Champion is not automatically placed for the next WC as is the main reason for so many participations of Italy and Germany)