Leszek Wrona, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Leszek Wrona

Polish footballer-manager

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1955

Place of Birth: Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: association football manager, association football player

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Leszek Wrona

  • Leszek Wrona is a retired Polish association football defender who played professionally in Poland, Germany and the United States.
  • After his retirement, he remained in the United States where he coached in the USISL and USL PDL. In 1972, the seventeen-year-old Wrona debuted for Garbarnia Kraków.
  • In 1976, he moved to Legia Warsaw where he spent most of two seasons with the club’s reserve team.
  • He played one league cup game against Stal Mielic on June 8, 1976.
  • In 1979, he moved to second division Hutnik Kraków where he tied for the league scoring lead that season.
  • In 1980, he signed with Ruch Chorzów.
  • In 1984, Wrona moved to Germany where he joined TuS Schloß Neuhaus.
  • In 1985, the team merged with TuS Paderborn-Neuhaus to form SC Paderborn 07.
  • Wrona remained with the renamed team for two more seasons before briefly spending time with the New Jersey Eagles during the 1988 American Soccer League season.
  • He then returned to Ruch Chorzów where he was part of the club's 1989 Polish championship.
  • He left the team after the championship and moved to the United States.
  • He played for Garfield Vistula.
  • In 1990, Wrona became a player-coach with Gremio Lusitano, taking the team to the 1991 LASA league championship.
  • In 1992, he moved to the Polonia Falcons where he took them to the 1992 CSSA Cup Championship.
  • In 1993, the expansion Connecticut Wolves of the USISL hired Wrona as the team’s first head coach.
  • He both coached and played for the Wolves until resigning in June 1995.
  • During that time, he also played and coached for Bridgeport Vasco da Gama.
  • After leaving Wolves, Wrona spent the rest of the 1995 season playing for the Albany Alleycats.
  • That year, he also became the head coach of the Plainville High School boys’ team, a position he held until 1999.
  • In 2000, he became the head coach of the Plainville girls’ team.
  • In 1996, Wrona briefly coached the Albany Alleycatsteam, then became the head coach for the 1997 season.
  • In 1997, Gremio Lusitano founded the Western Mass Pioneers to compete in the USISL D-3 Pro League.
  • In October 1997, the team named Wrona as head coach.
  • Wrona took the Pioneers to the 1998 league championship.
  • He left the team in 2000, returned in 2004, left the team in 2006 and returned in 2008.
  • He left the team for the third time in June 2010.
  • Leszek Wrona now runs a youth soccer academy out of an indoor soccer facility in Bristol, CT.
  • Leszek Wrona's Soccer Academy gives young players coaching, aiming to improve their ball skills as well as their "soccer IQ".

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