Jerzy Engel

Władysław Jerzy Engel ( born October 6, 1952 in Wloclawek, Poland ) is a former Polish footballer and coach.

Playing career

Angel was only briefly to find as Active on the football field. During this entertaining career he wore the jerseys of Junak Wloclawek, Polonia Warsaw and Hutnik Warszawa. Due to an injury, however, he was forced to retire early this career path.

Coaching career

As early as 1976, at the age of 22 years, Angel got into the coach business and took over Hutnik Warsaw, where he was active as a player-coach. After he was in charge until 1981 only unterklassige teams, the then national coach Antoni Piechniczek took him to the coaching staff of the Polish national team. Together with the team, she reached the third place in the 1982 World Cup in Spain. Shortly thereafter, Angel turned back to the club football and supervised again Hutnik Warsaw. With the start of the 1984/85 season he was an assistant coach at the Polish club Legia Warsaw Top, where he was head coach the following year. In this post he remained for two years and could earn the 1986 vice-champion title with his team. In 1988 he moved abroad for the first time and should be recognized as a trainer a name in Cyprus. His first club on the island between Greece and Turkey in 1988 Apollon Limassol. After with Apollo, he won the second league Place the second year, Angel signed on with rival AEP Paphos FC. After just one season the coach changed again within the league and managed henceforth Nea Salamis Famagusta. There he remained, with one exception, between 1995 and 1996, worked as an angel as a manager of Legia Warsaw until 1996. With Aris Limassol Angels finally took over in January 1997, his fourth Cypriot club. After half a year here was over and he returned to Poland, where he was to work for the next three years as sports director for his former club Polonia Warsaw. He helped the team to its former glory and was able to celebrate the 1998 vice championship behind LKS Lodz. In early 2000 took over angel Polish national football team as a coach. He built the team on new and emerging players like Emmanuel Olisadebe installed, Marcin Zewlakow and Jacek Krzynowek. He also sighted abroad by Polish-born soccer players, in order to win for the country selection. So he sought, inter alia, also after the later German international Miroslav Klose. He managed to achieve with the team the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan. It was the first qualification in 16 years. In a group with South Korea, the U.S. and Portugal, however, the Poles failed in the preliminary round. The last game against the already qualified American could be won 3:1. It was the only victory in the tournament. After the World Cup angel was replaced by Zbigniew Boniek. By 2005 he was no longer occupied the coach's seat, but worked as a sports director and manager. Only when Wisła Kraków presented him with an offer, signed angel. In October of the same year he was released by the club 's board for poor performance. In December 2005 he moved again to Cyprus, where he took over that country's top club APOEL Nicosia. With these the coach won the national cup. In the league, he led Nicosia in third place, two points behind champions Apollon Limassol. In May 2006, both parties parted again.

Success as a coach

• Polish vice-champion in 1986 with Legia Warsaw
• Runner-up from 1990 in Cyprus with Apollon Limassol
• Polish vice-champion in 1998 with Polonia Warsaw
• Winning the Cup of Cyprus in 2006 with APOEL Nicosia
• Coach of the Year in 2000 and 2001, according to the weekly magazine Piłka nożna

Trivia

• In the summer of 2008, Engels moved son, also called Jerzy Engel, and thus also the former coach to the attention of the general public, as it fraud and manipulation was carried litters in football.
• After his coaching career Engel worked as a member of UEFA's development and technical support. He also works for the Polish Football Association and sifts through their behalf players for the national team.
• 2001 angel behind Marcelo Bielsa, Sven -Goran Eriksson, Roger Lemerre, Srecko Katanec and José Pekerman was, but before coach as Giovanni Trapattoni and Rudi Völler, was elected as the sixth best IFFHS Coach of the Year. In a choice of the IFFHS, which listed the best coaches between 2001 and 2010, Angels came in at number 74 this he shared with Valeri Georgijewitsch Gassajew, Carlos Ischia and Abel Braga.