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Specialist from the Netherlands Leo Beenhakker was appointed as the new coach of the Polish national team.
The 64-year-old strategist coached the Trinidad and Tobago national team in this year's World Cup in Germany and created a great team spirit and achieved good results, which received high praise.
Pawel Janas, who coached Poland, immediately returned to his homeland after a failure at the world championships and resigned from his position. The Polish Football Association (PZPN) soon began looking for a replacement and quickly offered a job to L. Beenhakker.
"We are pleased that the team will be coached by a very respected and successful coach," said PZPN president Michal Listkiewicz. "I believe Beenhakker will bring a new quality to Polish football and for the first time in the country's history, the team will reach the final tournament of the European Championship."
Dutchman L. Beenhakker, who will be the first coach to coach the national team being non-Polish, is looking forward to new challenges: "Poland has a long football history and has achieved several very good results, but has never played in the European championships, so this will be a huge challenge for me."
It is said that the PZPN president appointed L. Beenhakker as the coach of Poland in order to protect himself from major changes in the national team.
"I'm not doing anything for my own convenience," justified Listkiewicz. "I just decided at this moment to appoint someone from the highest level of specialists to the coaching position. There is no better time than now to make history."
Poland finished third in their group in this year's World Cup and only defeated the Costa Rican team. The small Caribbean team Trinidad and Tobago caused a sensation in the first two matches: a draw with Sweden, then only conceded to England after a tough battle until the last 10 minutes of the match, and in the final unsuccessful match against Paraguay, they had to acknowledge the superiority of this team by a two-goal margin.
