Janusz Marek Wójcik is a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 politician and former football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 player and coach.

Playing Career

He played in several clubs at home and abroad, including Agrykola, Gwardia

Gwardia Warszawa

Gwardia Warszawa is a Polish football club based in Warsaw, Poland. The club was founded in 1948 and is currently playing in the Polish A klasa . It participated in the Polish 1st League between 1953–1960 , 1962–1966 , 1967–1968, 1969–1975, 1978–1979 and 1981–1983...

, Ursus and Hutnik Warszawa

Hutnik Warszawa

Hutnik Warszawa, is a Polish professional football club based in the Bielany district of Warsaw, Poland. It was founded on April 21, 1957 as Hutniczy Klub Sportowy and renamed Bielański Klub Sportowy in 2001...

, Ravalpandi (Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

) and the Toronto Falcons

Toronto Falcons

The Toronto Falcons were a soccer team based in Toronto, Canada. They played only two years, 1967 in the National Professional Soccer League and 1968 in the North American Soccer League . Their home field was Varsity Stadium....

 (Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

).

Coaching career

Wójcik also trained several Polish clubs like Hutnik Kraków

Hutnik Kraków

KS Hutnik Nowa Huta is a Polish football club from the Nowa Huta district of Kraków. The club was founded in 1950. Hutnik have played seven seasons in the Polish Ekstraklasa . The team's greatest success is a third place in the 1995/96 season, as a result of which they qualified for the UEFA Cup...

, Jagiellonia Białystok, Legia Warszawa

Legia Warszawa

Legia Warszawa is a professional football club based in Warsaw, Poland. It was founded in March 1916 in the area of Maniewicze in Volhynia as the football club of the Polish Legions...

, Pogoń Szczecin

Pogon Szczecin

MKS Pogoń Szczecin is a Polish professional football club, based in Szczecin, Poland. The club was founded by Poles from Lwów , who had been transferred west after the Soviet annexation of Poland's eastern territories in 1945. The founders of Pogoń Szczecin had previously been supporters of Pogoń...

 and Lukullus Świt Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki as well as the Polish olympic team

Poland at the 1992 Summer Olympics

- Gold:* Waldemar Legień — Judo, Men's Middleweight * Arkadiusz Skrzypaszek — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Individual Competition* Arkadiusz Skrzypaszek, Dariusz Goździak, and Maciej Czyżowicz — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Team Competition...

 which won the silver medal

Silver medal

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 in the 1992 Summer Olympics, Polish national senior football team

Poland national football team

The Poland national football team represents Poland in association football and is controlled by the Polish Football Association, the governing body for football in Poland...

, and the U-18 and U-16 national teams of Poland.

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

Syria national football team

The Syria national football team represents Syria in association football and is controlled by the Syrian Football Association, the governing body for football in Syria. Syria's home grounds are Abbasiyyin Stadium and Aleppo International Stadium...

.

On 21 April 2008 he was appointed as Widzew Lodz

Widzew Lódz

RTS Widzew Łódź , is a professional Polish football club based in Łódź, Poland.The club was founded in 1910 and named after the "Widzew" district of the city where it is based; its home is the Stadion im. Ludwika Sobolewskiego at 138 Pilsudski street. Widzew has won four Polish league championships...

 manager.

In 2010 Wójcik was hired as manager for Oman

Oman

Oman , officially called the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab state in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west, and Yemen to the southwest. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the...

i club, Al-Nahda.

Political career

He is a member of the Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland

Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland

Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland , abbreviated to SRP, is an agrarian political party and trade union in Poland led by Andrzej Lepper. Its platform combines left-wing populist economic policies with religious conservative social policies....

 party and was elected to Sejm

Sejm

The Sejm is the lower house of the Polish parliament. The Sejm is made up of 460 deputies, or Poseł in Polish . It is elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the Marshal of the Sejm ....

 (the lower chamber of the Polish parliament) on September 25, 2005 getting 4236 votes in 24 Białystok district.

Personal life

He graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Physical Education in 1979.
On 8 January 2006 he was arrested for driving a car under the influence of alcohol.

External links

• Janusz Marek Wójcik - parliamentary page - includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches.