Piotr Nowak
Piotr Nowak was born in Pabianice, ód Voivodeship, Poland on July 5th, 1964 and is the Soccer Coach. At the age of 59, Piotr Nowak biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Piotr "Peter" Nowak (Polish pronunciation: [pjtr njak]; born 5 July 1964) is a Polish professional football manager and former player. He was most recently in charge of Ekstraklasa's Jagiellonia Biaystok.
Nowak performed for Polish clubs, including Zawisza Bydgoszcz and Widzew, before moving on to compete in Turkey, Switzerland, and Germany. Since playing with 1860 Munich, he was voted one of the top players in the Bundesliga for the 1995–96 season. In 1998, he came to the United States and spent four years with the Chicago Fire. Nowak spent time with the Poland national football team in the 1990s, winning 24 caps, being voted Polish Player of the Year in 1996, and being named Polish Player of the Year in 1996.
He is a former assistant coach of the United States national soccer team, former head coach of the United States U-23 men's national soccer team, and former head coach of D.C. United and Philadelphia Union of MLS. Nevertheless, his reputation in the United States suffered when he was accused of seriously mistreating and physically assaulting players even though he wasn't being coach of the former; an arbitration and a federal lawsuit that followed backed the allegations.
He served as chairman of Górnik Konin for a brief period, but the club was heavily criticized and largely blamed for the team's demise. He was appointed as a technical advisor and head coach to the Antigua and Barbuda Football Association over a decade.
Club career
Nowak was born in Pabianice, Poland's small town. At the age of 15, he began his first professional career. He competed in the Polish First Division for Zawisza Bydgoszcz and Widzew Lodz.
Nowak left Germany to join Bundesliga side Dynamo Dresden after playing at Bakirkoyspor (Turkey) and Young Boys Bern (Switzerland). In 1994, he joined other Bundesliga clubs, first with 1 being first. FC Kaiserslautern and later TSV 1860 Munich, where he played until 1998. Nowak was named Germany's Best Playmaker and Polish Player of the Year during the 1995-96 season, as well as the best Playmaker in the region. He moved from 1860 Munich to the UEFA Cup in the following season.
Nowak, a 1998 graduate of the University of Chicago, joined the Chicago Fire for the team's inaugural MLS season. He coached the Fire to a MLS Cup (1998) and two US Open Cups (1998, 2000). He has been elected three times to the MLS All Star Team, three times as Chicago Fire MVP and three times as MLS Best XI, with 1998 MLS Cup MVP Dennis Leo Varadkar as the team's MLS Best XI. For 114 league games, Nowak patrolled the Fire midfield, scoring 26 goals and 48 assists. He was with Chicago for five seasons and then retired in 2003. In 2004, he was inducted as the first member of the Chicago Fire Department's Hall of Fame.
International career
Nowak made his Poland national team debut in 1990, but he didn't begin playing regularly until the middle of the decade, briefly becoming captain later on. On May 31, 1997, England defeated England as part of the 1998 World Cup qualifiers. His last match for the national team was against England. He played in 19 games and scored three goals.
Chairman career
He became chairman of Polish club Górnik Konin in 1999, despite being still playing for clubs in the United States. Despite their first place in the league, boss Jerzy Kasalik was dismissed by Nowak for unexplained reasons, and he named Jaros, the country's most popular manager. The team soon started losing games at an alarming rate, and only recently managed to avoid relegation, despite their good start.
The 1999-2000 season was a disaster. The owners decided to rename the senior team KP Konin, while the reserve and junior teams used the old Aluminium Konin name. The club finished last, last year. It turned out that in the second half of the season, plans to relocate the team to Bydgoszcz were put into place, and that the team was playing under the name Zawisza SSA. The move never came to fruition, but the team, which only gained 8 points during the season, was disbanded, with the club's leadership and chairman Piotr Nowak equally blamed. The reserve team, which had been demoted from the Third Division during the previous season, was promoted to the first team, and a season later (2000-01 season) went straight back to the top.
The team won a back-to-back promotion to the Second Division under Jerzy Kasalik's leadership, reclaiming the club's position after the first team was disbanded. The club's triumph, on the other hand, was short-lived, after the club finished last in the 2003–04 season. Many of the Aluminium players were complicit in the huge corruption scandal in Polish football that shocked the country that season, which had a major effect on the club sponsors, who had all been banned from playing. The new club couldn't even afford to play in the then-national Third Division, and the senior team was disbanded.
Coaching career
Nowak served in the Fire front office for one season as a head of international relations and ambassador before returning to coaching in 2004, when he was hired as the head coach of D.C. United. He led D.C. United to a MLS Cup Championship in his first season. Nowak led the team to victory of the Supporters' Shield in three years with United and was voted twice as a Head Coach of the MLS All Star team (2004, 2006).
He went on to serve as an Assistant to US Men's National Team Head Coach Bob Bradley. Nowak served as Head Coach of the U-23 National Team, Beijing's 2008 Olympic Games. They co-coached over 70 players and orchestrated the USA's championship run to a crown in the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup and Mandela Cup, alongside Bradley. Nowak resigned from his position with the US Men's National Team on May 28, 2009.
Nowak was named Executive Vice President / Team Manager for the Philadelphia Union in December 2011. For the first time, the Union made the playoffs for the second season in its second season as head coach. As a result, Nowak was elected as the MLS All Star Head Coach for 2012.
Nowak was fired by the Union on June 13, 2012. Novak's mistreatment of Union employees had been investigated by Major League Soccer, and Union CEO Nick Sakiewicz was advised by Union CEO Nick Sakiewicz to terminate Nowak's deal. When Sakiewicz dismissed Novak, he referred to "philosophical differences" between the Union ownership and Nowak.
Later, accusations of Nowak mistreating his players surfaced in public. Among the allegations were Nowak's: repeatedly insulting players, trivialy mentioning injuries, estimating rookies with "pushies" and "weak" hazing, and trying to catch those who expressed their groans to the Players' Union. Nowak confessed to allowing players to run 10–12 miles in the heat, but refused to offer them water over trainers' concerns, spanking players with a sandal, and paddling his hands in ice water and paddling players. Nowak had broken his deal, team rules, and the MLS collective bargaining agreement, according to the club, who had been fired "for cause." Nowak filed a wrongful termination action against the Philadelphia Union, which he lost, after it was dismissed by an arbitrator in 2015 and then again by a Philadelphia federal district court the following year. In addition to Nowak's dismissal of his case, he was ordered to pay $454,000 to the team for the team's legal fees.
He took over Lechia Gda, Poland's chief, in 2016.
Administrative and advisory career
He was recruited as a technical and personal advisor to the president of the Caribbean Football Union, which includes 31 countries as a member of CONCACAF in February 2014. His positions were expanded to include technical director and head coach of Antigua and Barbuda Football Association, which was in charge of all National Team Programs, including FIFA Grass Roots and Female Programs, in September 2014.