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- Before the start of the season, the coach of Cracovia Michał Probierz gave us a long interview
- I believe that the Polish championship with Cracovia is possible – admits Probierz
- Probierz was mentioned among the candidates for the national coach. – It is not yet me – says
MICHAŁ TRELA: A year ago, you said in the Plus Extra League that in the next three years you will win the Polish league. There are two. Is it possible with Cracovia?
MICHAEL PROBERS: I believe that's it. With Professor Janusz Filipiak, we often talk about building a stable foundation for a strong club. Everyone would like it to end up winning the league. I fought for that with Jagiellonia. He failed. Now, Jagiellonia is also beaten, I have supported her a lot, but she has not managed to overtake Legia. There were not many changes in the clubs. If we stabilize our game, we will replace Krzysztof Piątek, I think we will be a very solid team. One who will take up space at the top of the table. I am interested in the championship of Poland. At the start, everyone has zero points, so there is no reason not to fight for first place. And life will verify it. In the summer, we played four sparrings with cup makers. We lost three of them. It was obvious that we still lacked this level.
You have cut yourself off from the speculation that binds you to Legia, Lech, in Poland. If you do not hire your strongest clubs, do you want to build such a club in Krakow?
When I work in a club, it's hard for me to say that I want to go to Legia or Lech. I am the head coach of Cracovia and I want to make the best result possible here. And above all, let's build something sustainable. Make a club like Jagiellonia. Before leaving, he could drink with a coffee teacher and tell him that I will leave a well organized club where my successors will work more easily than me. For me, the most important thing is to build a stable team. Because in Polish football, we often blaze from one wall to the other. Now everyone is watching the first league, because Gornik Zabrze has succeeded. In a moment, they will look at the Czechs, Slovaks, Croats and Romanians. There is no stable road that Jagiellonia had. That's our biggest problem.
I wonder, however, why you have so clearly cut off rumors that you can become a coach. Every trainer says that's his dream. And you do not talk like that
From the moment I was 23 years old and in Germany I finished my first coaching course, I knew what I wanted to do. I was running children, being still a footballer, I was coaching TKKF Chorzów. I often had my training at age 11, then at age 17, and later I went to the lobby and I gave TKKF classes. Everyone has a way. The coach is a man who lives out of elections. He must choose the team and manage it well. For this, there is a very necessary experience. And most importantly, you must love it. Go to matches, watch, drink coffee, talk. This is not yet for me. I prefer to go out, get wet, regularly correct mistakes, improve players.
Work at the base of the pyramid, not at the top?
Yes. I started a great revolution a year ago in Cracovia. Many players are gone. The club has changed a lot. And now I would say: cool, do you have fun, and I keep going?
Why Cracovia never goes anywhere?
The Cracovia road is definitely bumpy, but I wonder why it was different. I understand if I went to the top team. But I came to the team, which took the fourteenth place. This means that something was wrong with her. Otherwise, no one would even think of changing trainers. We had very difficult moments. We took the last place for a long time. The worst was in the match against Wisla Krakow, who was still affected by problems with the fans. I am not the type who surrenders. I was looking for solutions. In the spring, we showed that we found them.
The solution is usually to replace the players
When one of the other players is abandoned, the coach is always the worst. And I emphasize that every time I will defend the player who wants to fight. There are eleven places in the team and twenty-five players. The example of Milan Dimun who did not catch up to eighteen months did not play, but he worked patiently all the time, then jumped into the team and was a player distinguished, he should act on everyone. Meanwhile, when the player stops playing, a manager arrives and says that he is very good and that he deserves to play, so everyone wants to borrow.
You now have a group of juniors, currently vice-champions of Poland. Do you want to introduce them to the team or just rent them?
To bet solidly on young people, it is necessary to systematically introduce one or two players. But their preparation lasts two or three years. Now everybody asks if we borrow them. However, if we do, we will not be able to control their development every day. Players must learn to compete. To fight for a place in the composition. If they can not break into Cracovia, then what about the West? If the player has one hundred games in the league and leaves, he is a trained player. But there are those who want to sell after two or three games. That's the market. All the best footballers left the league this summer, in addition to Carlitos.
You also lost Krzysztof Piątek. Can Gerard Oliva or Filip Piszczek replace him?
We watched the father for a long time. It was our first choice. We knew that he was a good player. We were waiting for the development of the situation in Sandecja. We also brought Adrian Danka, because we think that he is an interesting player who can play well, but it's better to change his environment than to stay in his father's clutches and listen to him play because He is the son of an important club character. As for the Spaniards, even the players of the League III beat the technically Polish youth. I hear that we only take strangers. We also brought Gostomski, Danka, Piszczek, Serafin and Budziński. Only that I still hear that Danek is angry, he is angry, he is angry, Serafin is angry. Piszczek – "what is the transfer?" Spaniards? "Fatally, because they played too low." He is constantly stressed that something is wrong. In football, you have to be thick-skinned. I enter the market. But when I watched the players who stood out in the Polish league, it turned out that we could not afford Świderski, Gumny or Michalak. Nobody in the league will have two million euros for the developer. That's why you should look for those that can be taken for 100-200 thousand. euro, and preferably free.
A year ago, you also brought players from the water boats
and you hit Michał Helik and Javier Hernandez.
A year ago, it was another team building. Then there were a lot of players after the injuries, after the performances in the team, they have already come during the season. Now the composition is practically stable. There is a big fight for the place in the first eleven. Serafin shows that he will support, Piszczek and Danek alike, he came to Elada Zorrilla. You must strengthen yourself from year to year. Young people have to put pressure on them and we can make an interesting result that way. But you must remember that young people must have someone to learn. In Lechia, I had Daisuke Matsui, from whom you could have seen a lot. This is the way to go. There must be a systematic. This is why the PZPN reform of the CLJ is a very big problem for us, when it suddenly turned out that the 2000 year olds will no longer be able to play it. In the winter, we brought six players to play at CLJ for the year and we trained with the first team. Now plans need to be changed, and the 2001 yearbook should be built virtually from scratch.
And from next season, the introduction of compulsory youth is still in preparation. What do you say?
I am not a supporter of this. There is no such thing in the upper leagues. If someone is good, he will break through. Just see how the first league coaches call us with a request to borrow players, just to hit the youngsters. Everyone seems to have so many talented players
That's not true?
Let's look at Croatia for example. They bring the greatest talents from all over the country to four academies. In Poland, there is no such possibility, because everyone wants to have their stars. Talents, instead of going to clubs where they should compete with who to study, play with their peers who simply pay their dues. They do not develop. The effect is that they later have technical shortcomings. It's not just a question of PZPN that trains trainers well. When Stefan Majewski played
3-5-2, they said that it was an archaic style. When Pep Guardiola does it, he's suddenly modern. When Marek Motyka was doing grasshoppers, there was laughter. When Gareth Southgate does it, it's sensational. The problem is not the coaches, but the fact that we pay no attention to physical education lessons or that the physical culture in young people is in the state at the appropriate level. He goes out later. That's why we have two or three coaches in youth groups in Cracovia and we focus on great individualization.
Do you already have a reputation for a club that trains well?
I would honestly say that we can not create a real school academy. We can only do it to be reasonably good. When the base of Reczna is created and we have eight fields, you can talk about the academy. Same with the other team. This is not that someone does not want to give him money. But the reserves with us would not work professionally, would not have a lot, would not have the opportunities they need.
You have worked in many Ekstraklasa clubs, but only Jagiellonia has led you into more matches than in Cracovia. Have you settled down?
Often you forget the circumstances of departure. I left Lechia and Widzew after the owners changed. Now, I know that if a professor sells Cracovia, I should leave with him immediately, because every owner wants to have his trainer. Therefore, the simplest thing is to criticize the fact that I have worked briefly in various places without going into detail. It is alleged that I got the result only in the club where I worked for six years. It's hard for me to work in two places at once. I am used to. When I talk about training, I'm pulling out these fragments to make me come … When I talk about infrastructure, nobody will say that I've been fighting for twenty years. There is an ubiquitous hatred, which we see best on the example of Szymon Marciniak. Instead of defending him and crossing his fingers so that he stays as long as possible at the World Cup, people are happy that they have thrown him out. People can not stand it when someone is successful. And in the Polish league in the last twenty successful years – apart from Zagłębie and Śląskiem – those who paid the most.
Will you come back to such a club?
There is a Chinese anecdote about a monk who, after leaving the store, said, "How good it is not to need all these things." You can refer to the ball. I am happy here where I am and I do not need to be somewhere else.
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