Henryk Kasperczak
Henryk Kasperczak (* July 10, 1946 in Zabrze ) is a Polish football coach and former football player.
Career
Although Henryk Kasperczak was born opposite the stadium of the traditional club Gornik Zabrze, he has never played for his club. From Zabrze found not good enough, he went to the small provincial club FKS Stal Mielec mid-1960s. Mielec was at this time completely insignificant in the Polish football scene. In 1967 he had to do his military service and joined the army for this time club Legia Warsaw. Here he played with the future star Kazimierz Deyna in the second team and has already been spotted on the subsequent coach Kazimierz Górski. Back in Mielec, began the great period of the small clubs. Together with the two attackers Grzegorz Lato and Jan Domarski won Kasperczak 1973 and 1976 two Polish championships and was national player. In the Polish National Dress a scene will be remembered by the legendary 1973 qualifier at Wembley against England. The defensive midfielder Kasperczak fought his way to the ball played to his colleague from Mielec Grzegorz Lato and on Domarski. Domarski scored the decisive goal, which brought Poland to the Football World Cup 1974 in Germany and England was eliminated. The three players from the small town of Mielec managed the sensation. When a year later WM Kasperczak then won the bronze medal. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, he won the silver medal. Overall, he played 73 games for the Polish national football team and scored 5 goals.
Even as a player Stal Mielec Kasperczak was educated in Warsaw to the coach and to wind down his career, he moved to France for FC Metz. At the end of his career then decided a sad situation at FC Metz on his first coaching job. His French coach Jean Snella ill incurable cancer and wished his successor Henryk Kasperczak. Three times then this led the club in the French Cup final. He later became coach of Tunisia and the Ivory Coast. With Tunisia, he qualified for the FIFA World Cup 1998 in France. After these successes, he returned as coach back to Poland and led Wisła Kraków to several championships. Since 2006 he was the coach of the Senegalese national football team. When his team at the African Cup of Nations 2008 in the second group match, Angola defeated with 1:3 he came the next day with immediate effect. From September 2008 to June 2009 Henryk Kasperczak coached the Polish Gornik Zabrze record champions. On 15 March 2010 he was again coach at Wisła Kraków. Kasperczak was, however, in August 2010, after the off in the Europa League qualifiers, dismissed.
Playing career
Successes as a player
Coaching career
Success as a coach
- 2x French Cup Winners (1984, 1990)
- 3x Polish Champion (2003, 2004, 2005)
- 2x Polish Cup winner (2002, 2003)
- 1x Vice African champions with Tunisia (1996 South Africa)
- 1x World Cup finals with Tunisia (1998)
- French Coach of the Year: 1990