Jerzy Angel

Jerzy Angel
Personnel
Surname	Władysław Jerzy Engel
birthday	October 6, 1952
place of birth	Włocławek ,  Poland
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Junak Wloclawek
1975-1976	Polonia Warsaw
1976-1977	Hutnik Warszawa
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1976-1977	Hutnik Warsaw
1977-1988	RKS Błonie
1978-1988	Polonia Warsaw
1979-1981	Polonia Bydgoszcz
1981-1981	Poland (assistant coach)
1982-1984	Hutnik Warsaw
1984-1985	Legia Warsaw (assistant coach)
1985-1987	Legia Warsaw
1988-1990	Apollon Limassol
1990-1991	AE Paphos
1991-1995	Nea Salamis Famagusta
1995-1996	Legia Warsaw (Manager)
1996	Nea Salamis Famagusta
1996-1997	Aris Limassol
1997-2000	Polonia Warsaw (Sports Director)
2000-2002	Poland
2003-2004	Legia Warsaw (Sports Director)
2004-2005	Polonia Warsaw (Manager)
2005	Wisła Krakow
2005-2006	APOEL Nicosia
1 Only league games are given.

Władysław Jerzy Engel (born October 6, 1952 in Włocławek , Poland ) is a former Polish football player and coach .

Player career

Engel was only to be found briefly active on the football field. During this short-term career, he wore the jerseys of Junak Wloclawek , Polonia Warsaw and Hutnik Warszawa . Due to an injury, however, he had to give up this career path early.

Coaching career

As early as 1976, at the age of 22, Engel got into the coaching business and took over Hutnik Warsaw , for whom he was active as a player- coach . After he only looked after lower-class teams until 1981, the then national coach Antoni Piechniczek brought him to the supervisory staff of the Polish national team . Together with the team, they finished third at the 1982 World Cup in Spain. Shortly thereafter, Engel turned back to club football and again looked after Hutnik Warsaw. With the beginning of the 1984/85 season he was assistant coach at the top Polish club Legia Warsaw , where he was head coach the following year. He stayed in this position for two years and was able to achieve the runner-up title with his team in 1986. In 1988 he moved abroad for the first time and should make a name for himself as a coach in Cyprus . His first club on the Greco-Turkish island was Apollon Limassol in 1988 . After he won second place in the league with Apollon in his second year, Engel signed with competitor AE Paphos . After only one season, the coach moved again within the league and henceforth looked after Nea Salamis Famagusta . He stayed there until 1996, with one exception between 1995 and 1996 when Engel was the manager of Legia Warsaw. With Aris Limassol , Engel took over his fourth Cypriot club in January 1997. After half a year it was over and he returned to Poland, where he was to work for the next three years as sports director for his former club Polonia Warsaw. He brought the team back to its former glory and was able to celebrate the runner-up title behind LKS Lodz in 1998. At the beginning of 2000, Engel took over the Polish national soccer team as coach. He rebuilt the team and installed aspiring players like Emmanuel Olisadebe , Marcin Żewłakow and Jacek Krzynowek . He also looked for footballers of Polish origin abroad in order to win them over to the national selection. So he strove, among other things, after the future German national player Miroslav Klose . He managed to reach the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan with the team . It was the first qualification in 16 years. In a group with South Korea , the USA and Portugal , however, the Poles failed in the preliminary round. The last game against the already qualified US-Americans could be won 3-1. It was the only win in the tournament. After the World Cup, Engel was replaced by Zbigniew Boniek . Until 2005 he no longer occupied the coaching position, but worked as a sports director and manager. It was only when Wisła Kraków made him an offer that Engel signed. In October of the same year he was dismissed by the club board for poor performance. In December 2005 he moved to Cyprus again, where he took over the top club APOEL Nicosia . With these, the coach won the national cup. In the league he led Nicosia in third place, two points behind champion Apollon Limassol. The two parties separated again in May 2006.

Success as a trainer

• Polish runner-up in 1986 with Legia Warsaw
• 1990 runner-up in Cyprus with Apollon Limassol
• Polish runner-up in 1998 with Polonia Warsaw
• Won the Cyprus Cup 2006 with APOEL Nicosia
• Trainer of the year 2000 and 2001 according to the weekly Piłka Nożna

Trivia

• In the summer of 2008, Engels' son, also called Jerzy Engel, and thus also the former national coach, attracted the attention of the general public when he was accused of fraud and manipulation in football.
• After his coaching career, Engel worked as a member of the UEFA Development and Technical Support Committee. He also works for the Polish Football Association and sifts through players for the national team on its behalf.
• In 2001 Engel was elected the sixth best IFFHS trainer of the year, behind Marcelo Bielsa , Sven-Göran Eriksson , Roger Lemerre , Srečko Katanec and José Pekerman , but ahead of coaches like Giovanni Trapattoni and Rudi Völler . In a poll of the IFFHS, which listed the best coaches between 2001 and 2010, Engel came in 74th place. He shared this with Valery Georgievich Gassajew , Carlos Ischia and Abel Braga .

Web links

Commons : Jerzy Engel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official homepage (Polish site)
• Official Homepage (Polish)
• Jerzy Engel in the database of weltfussball.de
• Jerzy Engel in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Jerzy Engel in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jerzy Engel in the database of news.bbc.co.uk
2. ↑ Trainer Jerzy Engel - Poland's Redeemer from May 16, 2002 on wiwo.de
3. ^ From carpenter to goalscorer from June 26, 2007 on bundesliga.de
4. ↑ Krakow without a trainer from October 24, 2005 on transfermarkt.de
5. ↑ Coach arrested, national team unsettled ( memento from September 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) from June 4, 2008 on netzeitung.de
6. ^ Football in Poland - last resort: EM away from June 6, 2008 on sueddeutsche.de
7. ↑ Kudos for the CFA Pro License Course from June 20, 2010 on uefa.com
8. ↑ IFFHS 'World's Best National Team Coach of the Year 2001 on rsssf.com
9. ↑ World trainer of the 1st decade (2001–2010) on iffhs.de