Comments on: Polish Fans To Boycott The Game Against Slovakia.

By: a

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:15:40 +0000

adas, you’re comparing apples to oranges. Guys that play for Italy and Brazil make enough money at club level where they are able to sacrifice in order to win. At that point, yeah you’re right, they have secured their futures and want something more. That is when winning becomes the main objective, being part of a team that wins becomes top priority. Like I said, they talk about pride when they win. No will come out and say directly that they play for the name on the back of their shirt, or their sponsors. As for the Polish team, there are too many guys that only play for themselves. There is not enough leadership in the squad to point them in the right direction. Too many guys don’t give a crap, they are just there for the free vacation. That attitude just adds to that mentality and it eventually gets passed on to the next generation of players.

By: adas

adas — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:25:11 +0000

You mean to tell me a, that when teams like Italy and Brazil win world cups there’s no pride involved. There is some pride, maybe not for the country you play for but for yourself. No one wants to play when they wind up looking foolish like Poland has recently. So why are they playing? Money is not good enough for players, they want to win too. Otherwise, why would players leave poor clubs that pay them a lot for great clubs that pay much the same. I guarantee that the Polish team would look better with players who want to be there and want to look good at the same time. These are selfish players, and wherever you find selfish people you find prideful people.

By: Radek

Radek — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:50:44 +0000

Not a bad day for Polish football today, while the U-17 team lost 2:4 to Austria, our U-19 team won against Denmark 2:1 and our U-21 team won against Liechtenstein 5:0.

By: a

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:27:00 +0000

The sooner people realize that footballers don’t play for pride or the crest on the front of their shirt the better. Footballers only worry about their best interests. To put a whole nation’s pride (or whatever you want to call it) on a group of footballers is ludicrous. Too many times is a nation judged by the type of football they play, that’s just bullshit. The players could give two shits about wanting to sacrifice anything for the greater good. Footballers are a bunch of selfish pricks. Its no surprise really that the PZPN is corrupt since its consists of former players. You only hear of the words pride and patriotism when the team is winning and they have nothing to talk about. So they just throw out buzz words to justify the money they are being paid to play a game. They also like to make it seem like they are curing cancer or something. When they lose, does anyone come out and say that was the reason they lost? no, they make up excuses why they played so poorly and usually try and place blame on others.

As for the Leo argument, I really believe that Beenhakker was the right type of manager at the time. For the first foreign manager who better than the experienced and respected Beenhakker. It would have been even better if he was like ten years younger. He might have had more energy to fight with the PZPN until the end. It took a foreign manager to open our eyes and hopefully was the first domino to fall in the collapse of the communist PZPN.

By: adas

adas — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:54:43 +0000

Drewsky, I think Leo is great. He’s not clearly not on the highest level. There’s at least one level ahead of him saved for the ranks of coaches who have won more than him. My argument was that if Leo wasn’t enough to fix Poland permanently, then you’re not gonna see the PZPN pick a foreigner at or below his level. And seeing as no one better than him is asking for the Poland job I’m not giving the position to a foreigner. If the country needs a new coach it needs to be someone with great credentials. Otherwise the gamble could wind up similar to the Leo debacle without as much progress on the pitch. At least with a Pole in charge, there might be a return of pride to the team. Let’s face it, Leo wasn’t coaching Poland for pride. People have seen his resume and know what he can do. Leo blames Poland’s troubles on Poland. He doesn’t think he did anything wrong. And clearly, Poland needs to develop its own style of play. Something they can be comfortable with. They seemed lost, for whatever reasons, using Leo’s tactics.

By: JZ

JZ — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:51:34 +0000

drewsky – very good points regarding Leo.
How much “higher level” then a Real Madrid coach who won 3 straight championships does the PZPN think they will attract?
Piechniczek inplied in his interview that Leo did nothing?
I feel Leo did quite well even with all of the interference from the Lato lead PZPN.

By: Focus

Focus — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:26:48 +0000

I hope the boycott continues and that we don’t fall for the lies.

Right now its Polska vs Denmark U19 Qualifiers and its 2-1 for Polska at the 63rd minute. I’m following it on uefa.com. Jonczyk and Kucharczyk scored. Anyone know where I could find highlights after the game?

By: drewsky

drewsky — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:43:38 +0000

Adas,I would rethink my position on Leo,saying he hasnt proved himself obviously you havent seen his resume.Early in his career winning 3 straight with Real Madrid how higher level do you need?Later on in his career leading T&T to their 1st WC in history and if it wasnt for Crouch pullin the dreadlocks of a T&T player to get the header and Terry’s unbelievable rescue he would have beaten mighty England’s (golden team of the cetury),they did draw vs a solid Sweden team also and of course leading our beloved Poland to their 1st Euro isnt enough for you? Not to mention all the clubs and national teams in between.
Do you think Hiddink (who is a tremendous coach) could have done any better?

By: Tomek

Tomek — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:30:37 +0000

msudzi is just a troll, ignore him.

Very few tickets to the match has been sold so far, so maybe the boycott is working after all.

The only chance we have saturday is if we get a big dose of “New Manager Syndrome”.

By: adas

adas — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:31:56 +0000

msudzi, is it our players that suck or our coaches? Make up your mind already. If the players suck, then it doesn’t matter who coaches, we can’t beat those teams you mention. If its the coaches, then why do you make a big stink about the players? And if its both, then stop complaining. What the hell do you get out of it. Go do something about it instead of just mouthing off on a blog.