Polish squad for USA match (w/ pronunciations )

Hey man, thanks for that post. I am always interested what the stadiums look like and where they're playing. Thanks for the information. Only a 12k seat stadium? I hope it's at least sold out. There should be a sweet feel to the game. Thanks

 

I too was suprised by how small the stadium is, but it should be an intimate evening of soccer.

 

Marek Saganowski Mah-reck Sah-gahn-ovski of Legia is replacing the injured Niedzielan

 

what happened to the Nigerian guy, i forgot the name,....Abadi Pele or something, he was with Poland WC 2002 team....

 

Emmanuel Olisadebe has been struggling with knee injuries ever since WC 2002, and due to these injuries and other factors does not always start for his club team Panathinaikos. He was Engel's (Poland's previous coach) favorite, but fell out of favor when Boniek took over and now Janas is lukewarm on him as well. Certainly a great talent, but needs to have a coach who is a great motivator, as his work ethic and commitment are suspect. I wouldn't be surprised if we never see him in a Poland uniform again.

Niedzielan, the guy who was just pulled due to injury, is much better, though, and will probably feature as our top striker for the next few years.

 

Due to injury Olisadebe won't play against USA, but he still plays for his home team ( PANATHINAIKOS ). He came at 65th min and score one goal right before end of the game. I don't think he want's to play for POLAND any more

 

i thought that was the reason why he converted nationality to Polish, to play for it's National team.

 

What happened to Paweł Kryszalowicz? He played really well against the US. Did he get injured?

Other than Kryszalowicz, Olisadebe, and third game keeper Majdan, all the World Cup starters will be in Płock.

Krolpolski, can you tell me something about the barred L? Do any other languages besides Polish use it? Maybe next World Cup FIFA will print Płock on the web instead of Plock (although how many people would be able to read it)?

By the way, did you fax a copy of the roster to Rob Stone?

 

Another Injury

Next player is out. Michał Żewłakow (Anderlecht Brussels, Belgium)

 

Kryszalowicz now plays for Amica in the Polish league. He's been doing well on the national team in the few recent friendlies, having scored four goals in the game against Faroe Islands couple of months ago. It's a mystery why he hasn't been called up for the US game: some, as always, see a personality conflict, but that's not likely. More probable is that Janas knows that Kryszalowicz is a proven commodity, and wishes to give chance to other forwards, as suddenly Poland has a wealth of decent ones. Of course, that begs the question of why Kryszalowicz wasn't called up after Niedzielan was injured, and Saganowski got the call instead.

Good job remembering some of those Polish players. However, not that many that played in Korea against the US will feature in Plock. The defensive unit is very much different (Glowacki out due to injury, Zielinski ended his national team career). Murawski, the defensive mid is no longer considered a player of national caliber. These three guys were instrumental in the game agaisnt the US in Korea, and without Glowacki anchoring the defense with Bak I don't think we match up very well against the American forwards.

The rest of the midfield is different also, with Krzynowek the only remnant from the US game in Korea. Everyone is looking forward to see Smolarek, who a couple of years ago was considered the next big thing in Polish soccer, but was sidelined for over year and a half due to an injury.

Up front the only holdout is Zurawski, the guy whose penalty kick was saved by Friedel. But he can't buy a goal in the NT, even though he is doing great in the Polish league.

I can't wait what Krolpolski will come up with regarding the bared "L". AFAIK Polish is the only language using it, althought Russian has two letters that are pronounced the same way as the Polish regular "L" and the bared "L". But they are written in cyrilic. But I wonder where that symbol for the English currency, the pound, came from?

 

You guys have nothing to worry about. We couldn't win in Europe against a wheelchair soccer team.

 

From AskOxford...

What is the origin of the pound sign (£)?

This sign is simply a capital letter L, written in old-fashioned roundhand, with one or two crossbars to show that it is being used as a symbol or abbreviation. The L stands for the Latin word libra, the name of a Roman unit of weight (equaling 12 ounces), which also gave rise to the abbreviation lb for a pound as a measure of weight, and to the French word livre. The symbol for the Japanese yen was probably invented by analogy with the pound and dollar symbols, as it is a capital Y with one or two bars across it.

What is the origin of the dollar sign ($)?

It actually derives from a handwritten 'ps', an abbreviation for 'peso' in old Spanish-American books. The $ symbol first occurs in the 1770s, in manuscript documents of English-Americans who had business dealing with Spanish-Americans, and it starts to appear in print after 1800.

Interesting stuff. I happen to be a Libra.

 

We were always told that the dollar sign came came from putting a "U" and and "S" on top of each other, which would look like the dollar sign with two lines (which you rarely see anymore) and that it was just eventually shortened with one line of the "U" to make the current $

How did this come up in the US-Poland thread?

 

starting line up for Poland

Jerzy Dudek - Marcin Baszczyński, Tomasz Kłos, Jacek Bąk, Tomasz Rząsa - Euzebiusz Smolarek, Mariusz Lewandowski, Arkadiusz Radomski, Jacek Krzynówek - Grzegorz Rasiak, Maciej Żurawski

on the bench

Maciej Nalepa, Tomasz Hajto, Mirosław Szymkowiak, Sebastian Mila, Damian Gorawski, Marek Saganowski

 

Can any of the Polish posters give us a rundown of the post-game press reports coming out of Poland?

http://www.gazeta.pl/0,0.html

 

Very interesting comments from polish players.
Jacek Bak (def.): "A loss is always a great lesson, of the 8 teams we played Americans were the best, even better organized than Italians, and I think it's possible that in 2010 they will win WC.

 

the general opinion of the Gazeta article is that the Americans were better organized and did not give up the field, meaning the Poles settled to quickly for hopeful long balls to the tall forwards

 

yeah Gazeta was also very critical of the wingers. As the main crux of the Polish attack for the whole winning streak was coming from the wings and the wing play yesterday was just atrocious, and they were heavily criticized. Rightly so, though as we all know, if you're playing over the top, your wingers aren't going to get much action.

Granted Kosowski was out and Gorawski/Mila began on the bench but more was expected of those who did play.

 

Must have been reading this thread and your pronunciation guidelines

But the funny thing is,even they did a very good job on some of the more difficult names, the easiest one they pronounced as "High-ahto", instead of "High-toe".