I just thought that it was kinda casually discussed and ah expected more. Some men say that we should have a statue built for Beenie and others say any top level coach could have done what Beenie did for us in 2005/2006. His success/failure with big clubs/national teams has been debated quite a bit, but with all de action in de various European leagues/Champions League/World Cup qualifying....I assumed I would have heard about our hero Beenie quite a bit more
You heard what happened?
Check it here:
Beenhakker fired live on TV by Lato after week of waste© Zureks
[Beenhakker lashed out at Lato over sacking
(2009-09-11) National football coach, Dutchman Leo Beenhakker, was sensationally fired live on TV on Wednesday evening after Poland’s hopes of making next year’s World Cup finals in South Africa were virtually extinguished after an insipid display in Slovenia.
Following on from Saturday’s 1-1 home draw against Northern Ireland, Poland went down 3-0 in Maribor making qualification virtually impossible regardless of the results of their final 2 Group 3 games.
The forgettable evening, which saw a performance from the national side which showed a complete absence of passion and skill, took a humiliating turn once the match was over. Beenhakker, who doesn’t speak Polish and communicated with the players via English, German and Dutch, was standing pitch-side with a journalist from the daily Rzeczpospolita newspaper. Yards away, PZPN president Grzegorz Lato, Golden Boot winner at the 1974 World Cup, was being interviewed by national TV broadcaster TVP. Quoted on TVN24, Beenhakker explained what then took place.
“I was stood on the pitch waiting for an interview and the reporter translated for me the conversation which, just three metres away, was taking place with the president of PZPN. I heard
“Hey, looks like you’ve been sacked.” Afterwards Lato came over to me and invited me to come on Tuesday for a chat. Is that his class? Did he have too much to drink? I won’t exchange a single word with him now and I won’t shake his hand. I am the first person to take responsibility for how the national team played. I should be sacked but not in such a way. This isn’t level zero. This is level minus 5.”
Beenhakker was clearly upset at the post match press conference and pledged to have finished with Poland. This met with the question about how he could be officially sacked if he wasn’t going to meet anyone from PZPN. “Email” he answered. “Most matters were dealt with in this way. There is nothing to discuss. They pay me two months money and that’s it.”
Beenhakker returned to Amsterdam that evening where he launched a scathing attack on radio against Lato and the PZPN accusing them of a lack of culture and repeating the accusation that Lato must have been feeling the effects of high emotion and too much alcohol to have made the announcement on live TV without having first spoken to him.Speaking to TVN 24 Lato admitted his imprudence. ‘I regret the words I said in the heat of the moment, but I’m also human and just want Poland to play in the World Cup. I should have told him first, then gone to the journalists’. Lato has already stated a replacement will be announced next week, with Franciszek Szmuda, Henryk Kasperczak, Stefan Majewski and Mateusz Skorza all identified as possible candidates.
With World Cup qualification unlikely, whoever succeeds will be under orders to put out of the fires and restore confidence ahead of Euro 2012.
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