Jerzy Engel

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Jerzy Engel
Jerzy Engel
Personal information
Full name Władysław Jerzy Engel
Date of birth (1952-10-06) 6 October 1952 (age 71)
Place of birth Włocławek, Poland
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1966–1969 Junak Włocławek
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1969–1971 Kujawiak Włocławek
1971–1973 AZS-AWF Warsaw
1973–1974 Polonia Warsaw
Managerial career
1975–1976 Polonia Warsaw II
1976–1977
Hutnik Warszawa
1977–1978 RKS Błonie
1978 Polonia Warsaw
1979–1981 Polonia Bydgoszcz
1982–1984
Hutnik Warszawa
1985–1987 Legia Warsaw
1988–1990
Apollon Limassol
1990–1991 APOP Paphos
1991–1995 Nea Salamis
1996 Nea Salamis
1997
Aris Limassol
1997–1999 Polonia Warsaw
2000–2002 Poland
2005 Wisła Kraków
2005–2006
APOEL
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Władysław Jerzy Engel (Polish pronunciation: [vwaˈdɨswav ˈjɛʐɨ ˈɛŋɡɛl]; born 6 October 1952 in Włocławek, Poland) is a Polish former footballer and coach.

Biography

[1]

Playing career

Engel began his career in football at an early age playing at local youth club Junak Wloclawek, before being promoted to local senior team Kujawiak Włocławek which allow him to move to the likes of Polonia Warsaw and several other clubs.

Engel, nicknamed "Jurek", began playing in midfield or attack before, at the age of 22, being cruelly forced to cut his career short because of injury.

Coaching and managerial career

First spell in club football

With spirits dampened only slightly, he immediately turned to coaching and took over at Polonia Warsaw reserves in the 1975/1976 season.

After a spell with third division teams, he came to the fore once more with his involvement in Poland's third-place finish in the

squad
.

In 1985 Jurek took over at

Apollon Limassol, in Cyprus
, an island he stayed on for seven years.

He later returned to Legia before taking Polonia Warsaw to runners-up spot in 1998–99.

National team spell

He became manager of the

naturalisation
as a Polish national.

With the side lacking firepower when he took charge, Engel saw the qualities in

Nigerian-born Olisadebe who was already playing his league football in Poland. He asked the president to speed Olisadebe's papers through and as a result, had a talented forward available for World Cup qualifying. Olisadebe rewarded his coach with eight goals in ten qualifying
matches.

Engel steered Poland to their first World Cup finals tournament since 1986, when he oversaw their participation at the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan.[2]

The World Cup did not go well and Poland were eliminated in the first round. The opening two games provided two resounding defeats, losing to South Korea and Portugal. After being knocked out of the tournament and now without any pressure to perform, Poland beat the United States in their final group game for a famous victory.

Second spell in club football

His most recent vocation was at

APOEL. He led the team into the third place of the Cypriot Championship, just two points from the top, and won the Cypriot Cup
as well.

Directorial career

On 25 June 2015 "Polonia Warsaw Co." under the leadership of Jerzy Engel took over the senior team from the MKS Polonia Warsaw Academy, which helped to reinstate Polonia Warsaw back from nonexistence, to the bottom-half of the 4th tier (third league) of professional football in Poland. Under "Engel's Co." the club returned to the emblem, and the sponsor from the Polish Title winning season (1999/2000).

Honours

Manager

Polonia Warszawa

APOEL

References

  1. ^ "Jerzy Engel - Oficjalna Strona WWW". Archived from the original on 4 February 2010. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
  2. ^ "BBC SPORT | WORLD CUP | Poland | Engel blames his players".