Paweł Janas

Paweł Janas
at the train station in Frankfurt am Main, 2005
Personnel
Surname	Paweł Janas
birthday	4th March 1953 (age 67)
place of birth	Pabianice ,  Poland
size	185 cm
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
1965-1974	Włókniarz Pabianice
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1974-1977	Widzew Łódź	70 (2)
1977-1982	Legia Warsaw	108 (0)
1982-1986	AJ Auxerre	135 (1)
1986-1988	Legia Warsaw	49 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1976-1984	Poland	53 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1994-1996	Legia Warsaw
2001	Amica Wronki
2003-2006	Poland
2008-2009	GKS Bełchatów
2009-2010	Widzew Łódź
2010	Polonia Warsaw
2011	GKS Bełchatów
2011–2012	Lechia Gdańsk
1 Only league games are given.

Paweł Janas [ ˈpavɛw ˈjanas ] (born March 4, 1953 in Pabianice ) is a Polish football coach and former football player .

Career

player

Janas was a central defender at Widzew Łódź from 1974 to 1977 during his playing career . In 1978 he moved to Legia Warsaw . At Legia Warsaw he was a national player (he played a total of 53 international matches) and took part in the 1982 World Cup in Spain , where the Polish national football team was third. After the World Cup he went to France to AJ Auxerre and played there until 1986. In the same year he was voted best foreign player in the French league. He then returned to Legia Warsaw, where he played until the end of his career in 1988.

Trainer

He made his sports teacher diploma at the Sports University in Warsaw and immediately after finishing his active career he became an assistant trainer at Legia Warsaw. In 1990 he went to the Polish Football Association as a coach. First as assistant coach of the junior national team, then as assistant to the Olympic team, which won the silver medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona . After the Olympics, successful coach of selection Janusz Wójcik went to Legia Warsaw and took Janas with him as an assistant. In 1993 he took over Legia Warsaw as head coach and in 1994 and 1995 he was Polish champion twice in a row. His greatest international success was reaching the quarter-finals of the 1995/1996 UEFA Champions League with Legia. After that season he was coach of the Olympic team, but could not qualify for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . When this was already clear in 1999, he moved to the Polish first division club Amica Wronki as manager . In 2001 he took over this club as a coach.

In December 2002 he surprisingly replaced Zbigniew Boniek as national coach, but was unable to qualify for the 2004 European Football Championship in Portugal . Nevertheless, he remained national coach and qualified with his team for the 2006 World Cup in Germany . His decision to do without the previous goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek and the popular striker Tomasz Frankowski was controversial in Poland . After the disappointing elimination for Poland at the 2006 World Cup (out in the preliminary round) Janas was replaced by Dutch coach Leo Beenhakker .

After that, from 2008 he was the coach of several Polish clubs in the Ekstraklasa ( GKS Bełchatów , Widzew Łódź , Polonia Warsaw , Lechia Gdańsk ).

successes

player

• Polish Cup Winner (1980, 1981)
• World Cup third (1982)
• Best Foreign Player in Ligue 1 (1986)

Trainer

• Polish champion (1994, 1995)
• Polish Cup Winner ( 1994 , 1995 )
• Polish Super Cup winner (1994)
• Poland's Coach of the Year (1994, 1995, 2004, 2005)
• World Cup participation (2006)

Web links

Commons : Paweł Janas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Paweł Janas in the 90minut.pl database (Polish)