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| June 20, 2006 | Tuesday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 23, 1427 |
Polish coach ignores pressure to quit
HANOVER, June 19: Polish coach Pawel Janas on Monday faced down growing pressure to resign after he ends a failed World Cup campaign with Tuesday's Group A game against Costa Rica.
Polish media and fans have been calling for Janas’s resignation since defeats against Ecuador and Germany ended the eastern Europeans' hopes at the group stages for the second consecutive World Cup.
Football association chiefs have said they would wait until mid-July to decide on the coach's future.
But leading national daily Gazeta Wyborcza on Monday quoted sources in the Polish camp as saying Janas would step down after the Costa Rica game.
“I repeat and repeat that this World Cup isn't over for us yet,” a visibly angry Janas said, answering a barrage of questions on his future at a news conference at the team's base.
“We have to face the last game against Costa Rica and then we have to do the analysis afterwards. We will draw our conclusions but we will do so internally.”
Polish press report the most likely candidate to replace Janas is former Wisla Krakow, Ivory Coast and Tunisia manager Henryk Kasperczak, currently the national coach for Senegal.—Reuters
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