Fernando Santos is going from coaching Cristiano Ronaldo to Robert Lewandowski.
A month after parting company with his native Portugal, Santos was presented in Warsaw on Tuesday as the new head coach of Poland’s national team, covering the European Championship in 2024 and the World Cup in 2026.
The 68-year-old Santos became Poland’s third foreign-born coach — after Leo Beenhakker and Paulo Sousa — and arrives with experience of leading high-profile players such as Ronaldo, who Santos even benched last month during the knockout stage of the World Cup.
Now Santos will be coaching a team captained by Lewandowski, the Barcelona striker who, at 34, is approaching the end of his career and might only have the European Championship in 2024 and possibly the 2026 World Cup left to play at international level.
Santos’ assistants will include Poles gaining experience for the future.
He is tasked with improving Poland’s underwhelming record at recent major tournaments.
Since 1986, the national team has only advanced from the group stage at one World Cup (2022) and one European Championship (2016).
Santos, renowned for being a pragmatic, defensive-minded coach, has good pedigree at international level.
In eight years with Portugal, he led the team to the Euro 2016 title — the country’s first international trophy — and the inaugural Nations League title in 2019.
He also coached Greece at Euro 2012, where it reached the quarterfinals, and the 2014 World Cup.
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