Hands-on approach: Poland take on Greece on Friday

Smuda was born in a village in Poland's southern Silesia region with strong historic links to Germany and has spent a large part of his life abroad, which helps explain why he can often appear at odds with the Polish language.

Smuda, who took the post in 2009 after Poland's failure to qualify for the World Cup in South Africa, sets the Borussia Dortmund's Polish trio - Lukasz Piszczek, Kuba Blaszczykowski and Robert Lewandowski - as the example to follow.

'In my opinion, in a moment they will be gone from Borussia,' Smuda said.

'"Lewy" is going to Manchester United, Kuba also somewhere in England, Piszczek to Real (Madrid).'

'They have a goal and they want to grow. I base the squad on them.'

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