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Beautiful moments in my life have been interspersed with tests that have reinforced, taught the resistance – says Jerzy Brzęczek, coach of Wisła Płock.
Iza Koprowiak: I would like to talk about maturity. Your maturity The youngest child in the family most often chooses the role of a playboy. You are a denial of this theory.
Jerzy Brzęczek: We were five, then four, because we quickly lost our sister Hania. She left in a tragic way. When I was little, my parents were doing well. We had our own greenhouses. My father met my needs: he bought computer games, I talked about the fact that I wanted a car and I got it. I was also eye in the head of my mother. I came into the world when she was 39 years old.
Brothers and sisters were not very happy about it
Jerzy Brzęczek: My older sister was already a housekeeper, 17 years ago there was a difference. The brothers and sisters could not always attend parties, they had to watch over me, I understand that they were not always happy about it. But I could not complain.
Where does this sense of responsibility come from?
Jerzy Brzęczek: I had to grow up pretty fast. I was 11 years old when I started to train at Raków Częstochowa. This time I'm tempered. There was not always access, I had to stop foreign cars, freezing several times at the bus stop. At that time, martial law was imposed, I watched patrols, tanks. Child shock. Sometimes I thought: why all this? When I was 13, I stopped training for a few weeks. Then coach Zbigniew Dobosz called my parents, he convinced me to come back. It was hard, but thanks to the fact that I devoted myself so much to realize my dreams and those of my father, I enjoyed the effect. At the Truskolice school, teachers and colleagues laughed at me wondering why I was going at all. It mobilized me. I've always been subjected to tests: will I survive?
The first arrived in 1986.
Jerzy Brzęczek: When we won the Polish championship at Rakowów at Spartak Youth, I started getting vocations for the junior national team. The team, whose coach was Marek Śledzianowski, went to the tournament in France. It was supposed to be my first trip abroad. At camp, it turned out that only 18 of them will be called.We all went to the airport, only then I heard that I was there. one of the two remaining. I told Truskolasy that I was going to France with my team, I was afraid to go back there. I imagined how I would go to school, I would see the mocking smile of colleagues and teachers. I knew it would not be easy, but such situations have strengthened me. Today you laugh, you will laugh after years – I thought. It worked. Then my emotional maturity has developed. I thought differently of people my age. I was carrying a notebook, something like a newspaper. At the age of 15, I wrote: "I do not care about mediocrity, it's to be exceptional."
They say you were born in a hat. Usually you have made the right choices.
Jerzy Brzęczek: In my life, I am guided by intuition. When I was 16, Zagłębie Sosnowiec came to pick me up. We were invited to the club, my father and my brother-in-law went to see me. We enter, and there are plenty of activists, the management of the club. They told me why I should go there. Dad was delighted, he had to take coal cars that would have been useful for tanning a greenhouse. However, I felt that this is not a place for me. When we got into the car, I quickly extinguished her euphoria. "I do not feel it, I will not go here" – I said. I resisted my parents, there was no room for discussion. A few months later, it turned out that it was a very good decision because I received an offer from Olimpia Poznań. I accepted it immediately. Subsequent appointments, debut in the first league, representation. Dad was proud and realized his dreams
What was your contact with your father?
Jerzy Brzęczek: Pretty good, but not an easy man.
What is it? it means?
Jerzy Brzęczek: He abused alcohol. I was the youngest of my family, but I was never afraid to tell him what I thought. When I persisted, he was unable to convince me of anything.
When he drank, he became aggressive
Jerzy Brzęczek: He was aggressive, but alcohol and excesses in the houses were perceived differently. There were no such stories outside the walls of the apartment. We had to survive these times, we often defended our mother.
When a parent has problems with alcohol, the child matures faster
Jerzy Brzęczek: Of course, it depends on what is the personality. Many have a weak psyche, enter into problems.
You were "Pope" in the Polish National Team, so you were not attracted to alcohol
Jerzy Brzęczek: I heard about the Pope after more than a dozen years. that my friends have talked about me like that. I am not a sober but as coach Dobosz said, you have to know when, where and with whom. The times were such that alcohol and pleasure were the order of the day. In all the teams where I played, I was captain, I knew what responsibility weighed on me. Especially in the Polish national team. Me and coach Janusz Wójcik, that is fire and water, but we found a common line
The Barcelona Olympics are a great success, but in your case, with a family drama in the background
Jerzy Brzęczek: At the games, the father invited friends to his home. He was nervous, he was still thinking about the coup during the Munich Games, he was afraid of a resumption in Spain, where ETA was strong. When the friends came, he went to the kitchen to do something to drink. Fainted. He had a heart attack, he spent all the games at the hospital
Did you know?
Jerzy Brzęczek: The family did not inform me, I did not know about it. I learned after my return to Poland, with a medal from the Olympics, I went to the hospital. Three months later, daddy died. I left for a group of teams, my brother Krzysztof called in the evening, that my father died on the operating table. He had inserted valves, he was smoking cigarettes, he had already abused alcohol. He lived 59 years. Beautiful moments were interspersed in my life with tests that reinforced and taught resistance
You passed the most difficult maturity exam in 1996. Your family was facing a great tragedy, your sister Hania, mother of Kuba Błaszczykowski and Dawid, she was murdered by her husband
Jerzy Brzęczek: A terrible moment. Heavy to understand. When my first son was born, my father died three months later. When the second son came into the world, my sister died after a month. When Hania lost his life, I wondered if it was an accident or a fate. We thought about the third child, but I had internal fears that my happiness, the joy of being a father would prevent anyone from leaving me. I did not talk about it loudly, but inside I had such dilemmas. We have not decided for a third child, we have two sons … I will never forget tonight. It was after 22, the woman and the children were already asleep. I answered the phone, I learned from my family that Hania was dead. I had to call my sister and my brother, the second son of Hania Dawid, who were then in Germany and give them this information
Why did that come down on you – the youngest of the brothers and sisters? who often made important decisions, dealt with important issues. It was natural. But also very difficult, the most difficult. For many years, every time I heard the phone, I was scared after 14 hours. I took the phone and wondered who I had heard what had happened
How did your life change that day?
Jerzy Brzęczek: We have lived abroad. I flew to Poland the other day, I did not want the Austrian press to write how my sister died. I asked them to announce that she had died in an accident, only the coach and the club director knew the truth. I began to wonder if we neglected anything, we were not mistaken. We felt that something could happen, we all had remorse that we had not reacted yet. If we did something, maybe we could avoid this tragedy
Jerzy Brzęczek: I was far away, the hardest was my mother, my boys, my brothers and sisters, the ones who stayed in the Truskolcs. I always say that I admire my mother, who, despite so many tragic experiences, has so much energy and has always given us all her strength.
Did you think of returning to Poland permanently?
Jerzy Brzęczek: There was no question but I often wanted to take the boys. I knew it would be very difficult to replace their mother and father, but we did everything to let them forget and we felt that they were very important to us. The loss of both parents is the greatest tragedy. But later, there were more, smaller ones: all those stories, comments behind the back. In a small community it is the norm.
Cuba played football, so you were a natural authority for him.
Jerzy Brzęczek: At 14, he also had a seizure, he stopped training. After a long break, he went to the tournament, was elected the best player. I made him realize how far he would go if he went to training regularly. I spoke to him often on the phone, but these conversations were not easy. He was a rebel and a big one. Sometimes we go back to the past with Kuba. We have wondered many times how much this tragedy affected who it is today. It will sound brutal, but perhaps this drama was the biggest stimulus for him. He wanted to show everyone that he would get up, that he wanted to fulfill my mother's dreams, that she wanted so much that he would play football. I've always said in Cuba that he would develop an intuition that would help him choose good clubs. That he would only go along the path he is convinced. He succeeded
When was he guided?
Jerzy Brzęczek: When he left Górnik Zabrze. He lived in a dormitory that looked tragic. He insisted that he did not want to be there. He bet alone, he came back from the pre-league club to the fourth league. And then he went to Wisła Kraków, everything took off.
Are you, like Kuba, a zero-bed?
Jerzy Brzęczek: It's definitely different. We are guided by the same values in life, but we have rather different characters.
Jerzy Krzęczek:
Jerzy Brzęczek: After many years, people look at things differently, but … He was a smart and educated person, a bad football. However, no one has the right to take someone's life, no matter how jealous or that he or she has a different opinion. Such things are difficult to forgive.
You have to compete with Kuba. Always play through the dice on Skype?
Jerzy Brzęczek: Now there is not enough time, so less often. But when we meet, I'm joking about the fact that I'm working on my muscles, because pumps are coming in. The game must always be fought for something.
Why exactly bones?
Jerzy Brzęczek: This game is not about casting. Strong will, thinking, analysis count. All the time you have to be mentally sure that at the end of some throws you have to do. Earth, believe it will fall giving a victory. Loss not concentrated. When we play, the emotions are great. Complete silence, concentration and analysis. We play a few hours
When you started talking to Kuba, not as a mentor, did you treat him as an equal partner for the conversation?
Jerzy Brzęczek: When he became a father, he changed human. The experience of recent years has also had a big impact on him. An injury before the championships of Europe, a story with a group of captain. Everything has lived a lot. And only he was able to do with it. Many people wanted to undermine its value. In recent years, Polish media reports that Kuba can not win, that he will not win a place in the club team, and that he still plays at a good level, what 39, he proved in the match against Kazakhstan.
What did you think? that the match against Kazakhstan will start on the bench?
Jerzy Brzęczek: In the match against Denmark, everyone played badly, but the one sitting on the bench was Kuba. He goes too often to him. I knew that when he entered the field, we saw his show.
You have helped him many times in his life. And you?
Jerzy Brzęczek: Many times. For example, in coaching, when he gives me his observations on the game of my teams. And I think he's positioning me higher than me.
He helped you when you were released from Lechia? Did you fly to Florence in a bad mental state?
Jerzy Brzęczek: When I look at my work in Gdansk, I think I did a good job there. It hurt me because I was fired after six games without defeat. I went to Florence, but when I left, I told the assistant where we would probably have a new job offer. Confirmed, when I was in Italy, an investigation of GKS Katowice appeared. The story was repeated, because when I parted from Rakow, I went to Kuba in Dortmund and, being there, I received an offer from Lechia
Are you more nervous watching the matches of Cuba or your son Robert? Jerzy Brzęczek: As a father or uncle, I look at them first and foremost, if something has happened. Robert is struggling because he has always heard that his father has helped him. Many times with Kuba we said that he is in the most difficult situation, because he will always be judged on both of us
Cuba has not bothered to compare it managed to jump over
Jerzy Brzęczek: Robert either he was not lucky. Nature has not given him physical conditions, he is 168 centimeters tall, I think coaches often judge him through the prism of growth. If he's going to play higher, super. Otherwise, he will manage in other areas
What suggested intuition when the Vistula offer arrived?
Jerzy Brzęczek: When I learned that Marcin Kaczmarek was leaving, I thought I could work here. I came just before the start of the first league, that's why we are always looking for the best setting, the composition. The league is a testing ground
You have spent almost 22 years in the field, but as a trainer you are a beginner. At what level is your coach maturity?
Jerzy Brzęczek: I finished football at the age of 38, some of the current coaches already had several years of experience. I do not feel like a junior. Rather like a man with a lot of knowledge who wants to pass it on to his players.
Can you shout? Because I can not imagine it.
Jerzy Brzęczek: You would be surprised.
Wisła players know this cry?
Jerzy Brzęczek: They met.
the field, do they work well in the coach?
Jerzy Brzęczek: A different perspective is needed, but stubbornness, reason and peace are important now. I've been very educated in commenting on the league games on television. Then I had to evaluate the situation quickly, make a comment. Like a coach. Only now I do not have rehearsals.
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