Interview Nepal Football Coach

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Jacek Stefanowski (L) and Richard Orlowski (P) - Press Releases;

Gorkha is an elite military unit subject to the British Army, but entirely composed of Nepalese soldiers, designed to fight at all, even the most extreme conditions. It is also nicknamed the representation of Nepal in football, which leads from the Polish duo - Jacek Stefanowski and Richard Orlowski. When you read this interview, you will realize that they also sometimes have to work in extreme conditions.

Polish duo team of trainers at the helm of Nepal. "Conditions uninteresting, Mount Everest through the window"

Q : Poles living permanently in the U.S. are national team coach of Nepal. Gentlemen admit that for the fans in Poland may sound a rather abstract ... How did this happen?

A:There is an open offer to work with the Federation of Nepal, we sent our resume. One of the conditions was the knowledge of the English language and have a UEFA A license - says "Football" Jacek Stefanowski, coach representation of Nepal.

- A week after sending the application, our application was accepted, and within two weeks after the signing of the contract on January 6, 2013 and arrived in Nepal - adds Richard Orlowski, assistant Stefanowskiego the senior staff and the coordinator of youth representation.

Q: What most surprised men after arrival in Nepal?

Ryszard Orłowski: Richard Orlowski - The first shock we experienced already at the airport - a huge number of fans and journalists welcomed us with great fanfare. Immediately after leaving the airport the next shock - traffic on the roads: a lot of motorcycles and cars. For taxis do little suzuki, the size of our toddler. Passenger still somehow fit them, but wpakowaniu inside luggage there is no way by which the bag landed on the roof. If we were picked up from the airport, the fare to the hotel we had paid probably double, because tourists pay twice. You always have to bargain, because here no one goes on the counter. You have to be very careful on the sacred cows walking the streets. When you deduct such, is responsible before the court severely than for doing harm to man. You can not be too surprised at the view holding hands men. In our culture, it would be ambiguous, here is just friendship. However, in public places man with a woman's hands hold no longer can. What is immediately noticeable for visiting people - huge smog. Here all use of protective masks stopping pollution in the air.

Jacek Stefanowski : Few people know that we are now in Nepal 2,070 years, the beginning of which was recently celebrated reverently. The party lasted four days. We who have the local view of the world well over 100 years, we spent this time with government VIPs in the fabulous resort at the foot of Annapurna.

Q: Under what conditions came masters work?

JS: - There is no secret, in the not too merry. The level of infrastructure is low, but ANFA (All Nepal Football Association - ed.) Is working overtime to conditions were better. With the great help of FIFA was formed first pitch with artificial turf, which will be completed this year. Wembley is not here, but we are approaching slowly to the European level. A great success is the creation of a federation academy, which trains the 100 most talented riders of vintage U-12, U-14 and U-16.

Lords of work is not limited to the activities of staff. On the head you have a lot more.

RO: - Our task is to show what the professional practice of the ball. For this purpose, all brought from the United training equipment, including T4 - SOCCER or HR monitor (hardware for testing speed, endurance, etc. - ed.), We arranged nutrients for the players. We teach the basics here. It may seem strange, but at the beginning of the players approached the nutrients skeptical, and later realized that to effectively assist them in recovery. At some point, they began to take double doses and had to subdue their desire. We have built a great atmosphere and mutual trust, which is not so easy to win in football in the Asian country. Do not save on training, encourages one another to work even better.

To send application attracted men money?

RO: - It is primarily a big challenge - the chance to conduct national team does not happen often. We are currently the only Polish trainers leading representation of another country. We have a chance taking of a deep experience in the international arena, which will definitely pay off in the future. Of course, not without significance was the ability to know the life and culture in such an exotic place on earth. A coconuts certainly do not earn here.

What is the lords goal for the near future? Promotion for the big tournament is real?

JS: - recently held a very prestigious tournament SAFF - Championship South Asian countries. How important is this event, let evidenced by the fact that President Ganesh Thapa Nepal Federation for the victory promised to every football player and coaches freehold flats and bonus. The preparatory period began 10 weeks before the tournament - the first six spent in Nepal, the last four in Kuwait and Bahrain. Finally, we established a tournament 20 players, including 16-year-old Bimal Magara, the talented striker. The group ograliśmy Bangladesh and India and drew with Pakistan. Unfortunately, in the semi-finals after a dramatic match lost with Afghanistan. Finally, we took third place. I am confident that this team can afford to victory with representations of much larger countries than Nepal. It is worth noting that recently, U-16, also run by us, he was promoted to the championship of Asia. For the first time in history.

Nepal operates a professional football league?

RO: - Of course, her full name is Red Bull A Division. It brings together 16 teams sponsored by big banks and companies. After playing 15 games in the first round, the eight best teams struggling in the play-off round of the championship. Three last fall, and their place is occupied by three strongest teams in Division B. The current national champion is a team Three Star Club, from which half of the national team.

The players are professionals and besides playing ball doing a normal job?

JS: - Each player has signed a professional contract with the club and does not need further work. Extracurricular money players get, among others, for participating in television commercials or for giving interviews. It should be noted, however, that if a player has a chance to engagement in a foreign club, have your card and can go without any problem.

I have not heard about this, that a footballer from Nepal played in Europe.

RO: - At the beginning of our work we have set ourselves as one of the purposes of sending three or four young players to Polish so they can gain experience and dodge at a higher level. For today is the one player Rohit Chand, central defender, who went to Denmark for FC Vestsjaelland (player of the club is also known for his performances in Lech Poznan Joel Tshibamba - ed.). Although it dates back only 21 years old, to his credit already has 35 games in the first team of Nepal. Recently on tests at VfB Stuttgart midfielder was Jagajeet Shrestha, it is also interested in one of the Polish Ekstraklasa club. For tests at Ajax Amsterdam and FC Twente will ship in the next few days said the attacker, Bimal Magara, because this guy with a huge talent.

At this point, we're talking about what level of representation in the case of Nepal? Are you guys able to compare it to any European team?

JS: - The difficult thing. Nepal has never played with a European team, but could, for example, in 2012, a 1-1 draw against Jordan, which is a team that plays in the play-offs to participate in the world championship in 2014 against Uruguay.

Football is the national sport Nepalese?

RO: - Yes, and it is not obvious, because in all South Asian countries, except Nepal is, football is far behind cricket. Only here on any free square of the small all play football. Interest in football is huge here, every league game or international takes place with a full stadium.

What makes the biggest problems, gentlemen?

RO: - there is lots of problems, but signing a contract, we knew what to write. There is a lack of training and courses for coaches, opportunities for internships trips to Europe, games played outside the team, which is due to financial considerations. But I say also about fundamental issues, such as nutrients, professional athletes to practice discipline.

JS: - What is needed is a reform of the league. I do not know if you know, but in Nepal all League matches take place at one stadium in Kathmandu. This must change, given the chance of playing matches in their cities ... For all this takes time, years of work. We try to explain to the authorities federation, which sometimes give the impression that if they wanted the results here and now.

What are the conditions of life in Nepal?

RO: - Life does not spoil locals. People here work very hard, and their average salary is about $ 150 a month. What really surprised me personally, a lot of women working on large construction sites, carrying bricks in baskets on their backs. These are mostly women with small villages, where hard to find a job. Arriving in the city, agree that the employer pays them half the rate that would give a man. The same situation is with convictions for drug trafficking: woman gets

20 years in prison, a man seven, on top of the day and night count him as two days.

JS: - A lot of young people borrow up to go to the Middle East, such as Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain. One is successful, so that support families left at home. The others are brutally exploited by the Arabs, for example, the construction of football stadiums in Qatar. Too much hard work they have nothing except food and accommodation. They can not even go back to Nepal on the border because their passports are confiscated. Many returns in metal boxes after accidents at construction sites, in addition employers do not provide any compensation to the families later. FIFA this but do not want to take ...

The political situation is stabilized?

RO: - It is not fun. Communist parties, popularly known as MAO, which are responsible for killing 20,000 Nepalis, permanent injury, deprivation of sight or kidnapping, they want to come to power, using people from poor villages, promising them a better life. The current government is not any better: the signing of a new constitution has been delayed six years, at every level of corruption is widespread. For example, recently went missing $ 400 million that President Obama has allocated for the development of the country.

Initiated an investigation into the matter, but no one knows! Not in vain Nepal ranks second in the world in terms of corruption, in the next election the government has already issued $ 40 million ...

JS: - Nepal has the world's second water resources, but the government does not want to build large hydropower plants, despite the fact that countries such as Australia, Japan and Korea want to invest their own money in it. Nepalese people prefer to use a handheld generators in electricity supply interruptions, rather than have him constantly, and in addition to export to China and India. Only 10 percent of the population of Nepal has access to the internet, so many messages do not reach the public, and people do not even know that you can live better. 40 percent of the people are illiterate, and the government does nothing to change this. Authority is simply easier to manipulate these people. It is not easy to live in this country.

I suppose masters so hard, however, is not dead ...

JS: - We can not complain. We live in the capital, Kathmandu, we have a large apartment with a view of Mount Everest, full service domestic, personal driver. They did not even try to ride. Valid left-hand traffic here, and for that Home Rule is: who is the first and bigger, this way. At intersections there are no lights.

RO: - In spite of these luxuries, such as Nepal, you have to be able to get used to the fact that electricity has its own schedule, and know when it is and when it is not. The beginnings were difficult, but now, after 11 months, it is a normal thing. In his free time traveling around Nepal, we go close to Mount Everest and Annapurna mountain trails or on the beautifully situated, the resort town of Pohara. Plane we fly there 30 minutes by car distance 200 km on the serpentine road defeats in seven hours. For this little mistake the driver is tantamount to falling in the 1000-meter-high cliff. Once a month, come tour with Polish, so we have a chance to meet and talk to fellow countrymen in Polish.

How did it ever happen that you find in the United States?

RO: - I used to play ball in the team Gofabet Gorzkowice, later in Piotrcovii Piotrkow Trybunalski and Grunwald Poznan. Los threw me to the United States after arriving in 1984, played in the Vistula Garfield, club, by which, a host of well-known ligowców and Polish representatives. Later there were many Polish-American clubs as an active player, and the Polish Community Association Football Club. After his career began to lead the team, worked among others in Keystone Athletic, East Stroudsburg University, AC Perugia and drove representation of American Polonia - ZPKP.

Are you up to date with the Polish football?

JS - Well, we were not successful World Cup qualifying in Brazil, but the team has a big potential. Unfortunately, Europe was ahead of us by a few long and need a lot of work to catch her.

RO: - Well, the president is Zbigniew Boniek, and well, that built on the Adam Nawałka, which, moreover, played in the USA. He is a man of great class and know for sure can handle this position.

( Original text read: http://m.onet.pl/sport/pilka-nozna,6tlxc )