Bogdan Wenta resigns as Polish national team coach

Bogdan Wenta resigns as Polish national team coach

Bogdan Wenta suffers the consequences of missing out on the 2012 Olympic Games in London: The 50-year-old resigned from his position as men’s national team coach for Poland.

His team had missed the Olympics over the Easter weekend at the qualification tournament in Alicante against Spain and Serbia. In a press conference he said that he will now concentrate fully on his job as coach of Polish VELUX EHF Champions League team Vive Targi Kielce, which narrowly missed out on the quarter finals against Cimos Koper.

Wenta has been coach of the Polish national team since 2004, and his biggest success in this period was the silver medal at the World Championship 2007 in Germany. Two years later his team took bronze at the World Championship in Croatia, but despite reaching the semi-final in 2010 Poland are still waiting for their first ever EHF EURO medal.

Wenta played 185 international matches for Poland, before changing his nationality to German. For the German side he played 50 times. After several years in Spain Wenta played for German clubs Nettelstedt and Flensburg, and later on became coach for Flensburg and Magdeburg as well as national team coach for his home country.

"To stop all speculations and rumours I announce that I have quit working for the Polish national team," he said. Now the Polish Handball federation is looking for a successor for Wenta. The first major games for the new coach will be the qualification matches for the 2013 World Championship in June against Lithuania.