Adam Nawałka

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Adam Nawałka
Adam Nawalka.jpg
Adam Nawałka (2007)
Personnel
Surname Adam Nawałka
birthday October 23, 1957
place of birth Krakow ,  Poland
size 181 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
0000-1974 Wisła Krakow
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1974-1985 Wisła Krakow 190 (9)
1985-1988 Eagle Yonkers New York 10 (1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1977-1980 Poland 34 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1996-1998 Świt Krzeszowice
2000 Wisła Krakow
2001 Wisła Krakow
2002 Zagłębie Lubin
2003-2004 Sandecja Nowy Sącz
2004-2006 Jagiellonia Białystok
2006-2007 Wisła Krakow
2007-2008 Poland (assistant coach)
2008-2009 GKS Katowice
2010-2013 Górnik Zabrze
2013-2018 Poland
2018– Lech poses
1 Only league games are given.

Adam Nawałka (born October 23, 1957 in Krakow , Poland ) is a former Polish football player and current football coach .

Career

player

Adam Nawałka began his football career in his hometown near Wisła Krakow . With the A-youth of Kraków he was Polish champion in 1975 and 1976. Then he played in the 1st team of Wisła and was already part of the Krakow regular formation in 1978 when they became Polish champions. In the same year he was appointed to the squad for the Football World Cup 1978 in Argentina . The Polish national football team was eliminated in the second round after defeats against Argentina and Brazil . The young Nawałka played five games in the midfield of Poland at this World Cup. In the national team he played 34 games from 1977 to 1980. In 1985 he emigrated to the United States , where he worked in New York City as a player and later as a coach.

Trainer

In the 1990s he returned to Poland and acquired the Polish coaching license. He first worked at a lower-class club, and then in 1998 as a youth coordinator for his old club Wisła Krakow. In the short term, he replaced dismissed coaches from the professional team in 2000 and 2001. From 2002 he coached fourth to second rate Polish clubs. Since April 2006 he was without a club before he was again coach at Wisła Krakow. During television broadcasts of the 2006 World Cup , he worked as an occasional co-commentator on Polish television. Between May 2007 and July 2007 he was Leo Beenhakker's cotrainer for the Polish national football team. From 2008 to the end of 2009 he was the football coach of GKS Katowice . From January 1, 2010 to October 25, 2013 he worked as the head coach of the Polish record champions Górnik Zabrze . One day later, on October 26, 2013, the Polish Football Association hired him to coach the Polish national team . On October 11, 2014, he achieved the first victory (2-0) of a Polish national team against the DFB team as a coach at the Narodowy stadium in Warsaw . In 2016, he managed the country's second qualification for the Euro 2016 in France with the national team as second in the group . In 2015, he was also named Trainer of the Year by two renowned Polish sports magazines. At the European Championship he survived the preliminary round with the national team as second in the group and for the first time moved back into the knockout phase of a major tournament after the 1986 World Cup. Then they defeated Switzerland and lost to Portugal. It was the first time that Poland had reached a quarter-finals.

After the 2018 World Cup in Russia, in which Poland was the last to be eliminated in the group stage, the contract was not extended. On November 25, 2018, he signed the contract with Lech Posen .

successes

As a player:

As a trainer:

Private

Adam Nawałka lives in Rudawa , near Krzeszowice .

Web links

Commons : Adam Nawałka  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Górnik Zabrze: Adam Nawałka został selekcjonerem reprezentacji Polski! ( Memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: gornikzabrze.pl. October 26, 2013, accessed June 16, 2016 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Paweł Dražba: Trener never który lubi cienia. In: pzpn.pl. October 26, 2013, archived from the original on October 29, 2013 ; Retrieved June 16, 2016 (Polish).
  3. ↑ Xhaka fails from the point - Poland in the quarterfinals for the first time , RP online, June 25, 2016
  4. ↑ Sport1.de: Poland separates from Adam Nawalka after the World Cup - Lewandowski reacts . In: Sport1.de . ( sport1.de [accessed on July 6, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Information on the Lech Posen website
  6. ↑ Piotr Dobrowolski: Cała Rudawa trzyma kciuki za Adama Nawałkę - Zobacz zdjęcia z rodzinnej miejscowości selekcjonera. In: se.pl. October 30, 2013. Retrieved June 16, 2016 (Polish).


personal data
SURNAME Nawałka, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow , Poland