Leo Beenhakker Fired!

Leo Beenhakker has been fired, according to many media outlets out of Poland, including sport.pl. Poland lost an embarrassing World Cup qualifier today to Slovenia 3-0, which all but eliminates Poland officially from South Africa. Polish Football Federation Grzegorz Lato announced after the game that Leo will be officially dismissed on Thursday. Under 23 head coach, Stefan Majewski, will take over as new manager of the Polish National team.

Obraniak and Brozek to start vs. N.Ireland

Leo Beenhakker has his starting XI, sport.pl has reported.

Ludovic Obraniak, after his great 2-goal debut against Greece, has replaced Ebi Smolarek on the wing. Can’t really argue with that. Obraniak is playing at a high level for Lille and looked great in the 45′ minutes he played vs. Greece.

The Show must go on

“The team will play against Northern Ireland for him.” ~ Leo Beenhakker.

By now, i’m sure everybody has seen the dirty tackle Axel Witsel on Polish defender Marcin Wasilewski in a Belgian league match this past weekend which broke his leg. There is no room in the sport for such tackles and I’m very happy UEFA took a very heavy stance against Witsel. Witsel has been suspended by the Belgian football federation until late November and fined a heavy amount.