Marek Leśniak
Marek Leśniak (* February 29, 1964 in Goleniów ) is a Polish football player and coach. He played for the Polish national football team and was again top scorer in the Polish Ekstraklasa.
Stations as a player
As a teenager Leśniak occurred in north-western Polish town Nowogardzka ( Pomerania ) at one of the local football clubs. As a 18- year-old he received in 1982 a contract with the League Club Pogoń Szczecin. After a year he succeeded there, the breakthrough to the first team. In 1986, he was first appointed to the national team. In 1987, he was with his club Polish vice-champion, he won with 24 hits the title of the scorer.
In 1988, he sat down during a trip to the Polish Olympic team to Denmark from to travel to the Federal Republic on. About middlemen an agreement with Bayer 04 Leverkusen was already negotiated. At 24 he was actually too young to obtain the release of the Polish Football Association PZPN for abroad. The age limit was 28 years. However, both parties agreed on the Polish side with the Leverkusen: For the transfer fee in the amount of 2.0 million D- Mark, which was then a record for a player from Poland, the pharmaceutical company Bayer AG supplied drugs in the People's Republic of Poland, the total value of the transfer total exceeded.
Thanks to the support of his fellow countryman Andrzej Buncol, who had come the year before to Leverkusen to Leśniak integrated quickly into his new club and was one of the performers. He also played on for the national team, he came to a total of 20 missions.
Until 1992, he played for Leverkusen total of 117 Bundesliga games in which he scored 19 goals. Then he worked for SG Wattenscheid 09 In two years, he came to Bundesliga first 64 games and 18 goals, but this did not prevent the descent. He accompanied Wattenscheider but also to the 2nd Bundesliga and came up with 32 games and seven goals. However, the rise in the first division did not succeed. In the season 1995/96, therefore, he moved to TSV 1860 München and denied in the first half of season 15 Bundesliga games with two goals before 05 changed hands for the second half of the season for the Bundesliga KFC Uerdingen, for which he then made another 17 league games and three goals scored.
Then Leśniak moved to Neuchâtel Xamax and scored for the Swiss club 12 goals in 41 games. From 1997 to 1999, he then joined Fortuna Dusseldorf in the 2nd Bundesliga and came up with 52 games (16 goals) before moving to Preußen Münster in the then third-rate Regionalliga Nord. Here he played until 2002 another 65 games, scoring 20 goals.
Teams managed
In July 2002, Lesniak signed a contract as player-coach at the SSVg Velbert. In June 2005 he left the club and coached after Ratingen 04 /19, where he remained until the end of the season 2005/ 06 and in March 2007 joined the BSV black and white Rehden. In March 2009, he left the club to return again in April of the same year for SSVg Velbert. First, with contract until season's end, he extended the summer of 2009 for the following season.
On March 29, 2010 Lesniak presented his position as coach of the SSVg after 18 games, from which his team was able to kidnap only two points are available. Almost immediately, however, followed then a new commitment as manager of the former Bundesliga SG Wattenscheid 09 After descending from Wattenscheid 09 in the Westphalia league he left the club again. On 21 October 2011, he was appointed as the new coach of TuSpo Rich Rath .. For 2013/14 season Lesniak has been committed by the FV Wiehl as a youth coach.
Others
Marek Lesniak since August 2011 working at the auto parts Hofacker GmbH in Leverkusen, where he still lives.