Janusz Wójcik

Janusz Marek Wójcik (18 November 1953 – 20 November 2017) was a Polish politician, football player and manager.

Playing career He played in several clubs at home and abroad, including Agrykola, Gwardia, Ursus and Hutnik Warsaw, Ravalpandi in Pakistan and the Toronto Falcons in Canada.

Coaching career Wójcik also trained several Polish clubs like Hutnik Kraków, Jagiellonia Białystok, Legia Warsaw, Pogoń Szczecin and Świt Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki as well as the Polish Olympic team which won the silver medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics, the senior national team, and the numerous youth national teams of Poland.

He worked as a manager also out of his country like Al-Khaleej, Anorthosis Famagusta and the Syria national team.

On 21 April 2008, he was appointed Widzew Lodz manager.

In 2010, Wójcik was hired as manager for Omani club Al-Nahda.

Political career He was a member of the Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland party and was elected to Sejm (the lower chamber of the Polish parliament) on 25 September 2005 getting 4236 votes in 24 Białystok district.

Personal life He graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Physical Education in 1979. After suffering an epileptic attack that lead to a severe head injury, he died on 20 November 2017 in hospital after surgery, without waking up from a pharmacological coma. On 29 November 2017, after the funeral mass in the Warsaw church of St. Dominik, was buried in the Służew New Cemetery.

Honours Manager Jagiellonia Białystok II liga, group II: 1986–87

Poland Olympic Olympic silver medal: 1992

Individual Polish Coach of the Year: 1992, 1998