The fans of the Japanese team, Urawa Red Diamonds, are pinning their hopes on the squad of Polish coach Maciej Skorza to snatch the title of the AFC Champions League, in which the representative of Japan will face his counterpart Al-Hilal. Despite Urawa’s contract with coach Scorza after the team qualified for the final of the continental club competition, succeeding Spaniard Ricardo Rodriguez, the common aspirations of both parties are great to achieve the team’s third achievement in its history, as it was previously crowned in 2007 and 2017.
coaching beginnings
Scorza began his career as a coach supervising the technical management in the youth category of the Polish team Legia Warsaw in 1994, and since then he has been involved in a long coaching career punctuated by many successes at the local level, in Poland in particular.
with scorza; The Polish team, Amika Fronke, had a different experience when he led it to play in the group stage of the European Union Cup 2004-2205, which is the first time that a Polish team is present in the continental competition.
Highlights of experiences
Among the most prominent training experiences for Scorza is working within the technical staff of the first team participating in the 2006 World Cup, where he was an assistant to coach Pavel Yanas, before the entire coaching staff was dismissed after participating in the World Cup.
Then Skorza moved between many clubs in his country, where he won more than one local title, such as the league championship with the Wisla Krakow team twice in 2008 and 2009, and with Lech Poznan in 2015 and 2022, and the Polish Cup with the Diskopolia Grodzhisk team in the 2006-2007 season, and with Legia Warsaw 2011- 2012.
Data bank
The Polish coach has a lot of information about the other side of the final match. Al Hilal is no stranger to Scorza, who previously trained his compatriot, Al Ettifaq, Saudi Arabia, in 2012. He also had a presence in the Gulf stadiums by supervising the UAE Olympic team from 2018 to 2022.
With 9 rounds since the start of the J-League, Scorza’s Urawa team is only two points behind leader Vissel Kobe, better results than the team that finished the competition last season in ninth place on the team standings.
Employ his expertise
Scorza seeks to employ all previous experiences in the hope of a third crowning of Urawa in the Champions League. Despite the good results achieved by the team’s former coach, Ricardo Rodriguez, at the continental level, the negative results at the local level did not intercede for the latter and opened prospects for the Pole to write his name in the records of champion coaches. .
Wonderful thing
The coach said in an interview with the website of the Asian Football Confederation last February: “I had a chance to appear in the AFC Champions League when I was training in Saudi Arabia, and this tournament requires a lot, and therefore playing in the final is a wonderful thing for me as a coach.” .
