Smuda not off to a good start

Stefan Majewski was granted a gift of a lifetime, a two match interview by PZPN. To show the Polish federation that he can be the top man for the national team as coach. Like Leo Beenhakker’s final games, the offense under Majewski was still non-existent. And thus, the world-wide search for his successor began. PZPN interviewed many coaches, both domestic and foreign, and found the best candidate to take over was former Lech Poznan boss Franz Smuda.

Discipline

A disciplinarian with self-discipline needed

The inevitable happened of course and only those who believe in miracles could have expected anything else. After going down meekly 0-2 to the Czech Republic, Poland are now officially out of World Cup 2010 and they won’t play another competitive game until 2012. It is almost three years to the day when Poland kick off Euro 2012 in the new Warszawa stadium that is currently being built.

Poland – San Marino: Historic Victory

Rafal Boguski scored the quickest goal in Polish national team history in a 10-0 romp over San Marino, which also is the biggest victory in Polish history. Rafal ended the game with two goals. Ebi Smolarek scored 4 goals in the lopsided game. Robert Lewandowski, Ireneusz Jelen, Mariusz Lewandowski and Marek Saganowski also scored. The Polish team played a beautiful game right from the start. Took a 4-0 into half-time and they never looked back.

Don’t scoreboard watch, Just win!

Nobody ever said it was going to be easy. And by losing to Northern Ireland 2:3 last Saturday, Poland only made it harder on themselves on making the World Cup in 2010 in South Africa. But, with a little bit of help, Poland can still sneak back into the World Cup picture. However, the biggest help Poland could use, is their own. And that’s to start winning. Poland has a bit of a break as they host lowly ranked San Marino squad, who is only dressing two professionals. Poland should win easily, which would move them up in the standings to atleast a 2nd place tie.

Back from the future (past?) with Poland

After the ridiculous training session, I believed Poland would gain little from facing the Czech Republic on Saturday. Seems I was wrong, as Poland did the unthinkable just like they did 2 years ago, defeat a world class team. Like against Portugal, Poland took control of the match early on and pressured until the score was 2:0 in favor for them. Indeed, something that you don’t see everyday from the Bialo-czerwoni, such as beautiful collective passing, and defending. Yes, the defense did have a good game. The Polish defense, which embarrassed itself in two major tournaments before made itself look like a brick wall at times. I was shocked and impressed as everyone when I witnessed this. This game truly was a flash of the past!