Personal information | |||
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Full name | Richard Patrick Orlowski | ||
Birth name | Ryszard Orłowski | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 25 March 1957||
Place of birth | Łódź, Poland [1] | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
Gofabet | |||
ZKS Piotrcovia-Piotrkow Tryb | |||
Managerial career | |||
2013 | Nepal (assistant) | ||
2015 | Anguilla | ||
2016–2018 | Belize | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Richard Orlowski is a Polish-American soccer coach. [2]
In his native Poland, Orlowski played as a forward [3] for clubs such as Gofabet Gorzkowice, Piotrcovia Piotrków Trybunalski and WKS Grunwald Poznań. [4] Later, in 1984, he fled to Austria to escape from the political regression and the Soviet subjugation of his home country. [3] [4] He was then granted refugee status in New York, anglicized his name from Ryszard Orłowski to Richard, and settled in Pennsylvania. [3] [4] While living in the United States, he played for a succession of Polish-American teams and even had a stint in the Cayman Islands. [4]
Orlowski was selected as Nepal national football team assistant coach along with Polish-American Jack Stefanowski- who was head coach. [5] [6] Their best result was a 2–1 victory over India in the 2013 SAFF Championship, before getting knocked out by Afghanistan en route to the final. [4]
Orlowski was assigned the Anguilla head coach role in 2015, [7] taking ownership of a team composed of construction workers, bankers, teachers, and boat builders. [3] During his time there, he brought increased professionalism and tactical intuition to the country. [3] Also, he recorded three friendly wins- two against the British Virgin Islands and one versus a non-FIFA nation, Saint Martin by galvanizing the players with the possibility of moving up the World Rankings into performing well. [3] Those three triumphs were Anguilla's first wins in the space of fourteen years. [3]
But when the FIFA World Rankings were updated, Anguilla had not received any points even though the British Virgin Islands were a FIFA nation. FIFA never rectified the error and, when Anguilla had to play Nicaragua for a 2018 World Cup qualifier, they lost twice on a combined score of 8–0; [4] Orlowski resigned after eight months in charge. [4]
Assigned Belize manager ahead of the 2017 Copa Centroamericana, he led the Jaguars to a 0–0 draw with Panama in their opening fixture. [4] [8] However, his team lost all their remaining group stage matches after that. [4] His main ambition for the national team is to get youth involved in soccer at a much younger age and also wants more friendlies against better opposition as it would be beneficial to the teams chemistry and quality of play. [4]
He is also involved with the youth sides of the Belize national team from the under-15 level. [4] On account of this, he has drafted some younger players into the senior squad. [4]