Friendly match with Belgium could reveal new gaps in revamped national team

"We are not Brazil and we will never be like them. That is why all our players will have to put on a good show and fight," said Zbigniew Boniek, the new coach of the Polish national football team on the eve of the friendly match with Belgium in Szczecin tonight. Boniek, who is considered one of the best players in the history of football in Poland as he scored three goals in one match against the Red Devils back in 1982, underlined the fact that while Belgium is one of the best European teams, the outcome of the match is not a crucial one. "The aim of such friendly games is to assess the performance of the team and find the weak points that need to be changed before the official games", "I am also curious what the team I have created can do," said Boniek, who introduced several changes to the national team after the disappointing World Cup results under the former coach Jerzy Engel. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A10; Zycie, pp. 1, 19, 20) M.K.