1 January 2026. A new year is a good moment to write honestly about what has changed for me.
After 6 years I have finished my daily work at the Legia Warsaw Academy. It was not an easy decision. At Legia I learned a lot and built a lot from scratch:
But a moment came when I felt I needed a change.
I continue my work with the Poland U-20 national team. In March we play Germany and Romania.
National team work has a different energy than club work: shorter camps, higher intensity, international matches. And above all, I now have what I was missing before - time.
A lot on the education side: courses for external companies (including Laba), sessions on UEFA A courses and preparations for my own education project.
Over the years I gathered experience - from volunteering and my first sessions, through building a department at Legia, to the U-20 national team. I feel I have something to pass on, and I want to do it fully.
I recently took the RMP motivation test with Mariusz Rosmanowski. One of its scales is "sharing vs. hoarding" - my result was clearly sharing.
It did not surprise me. I have always found the most satisfaction in teaching someone, supporting their development or showing how something works.
When an analyst from my team got promoted. When a coach understood a new concept. When someone said after a conference: "That opened my eyes". When someone took a real step in their career. That is what drives me.
I am planning a project I have been thinking about for a long time: working with coaches, analysts and former players who want to develop. The topic is analysis - practical and concrete, based on top-level experience, no generalities.
I want to show:
It will not be an after-hours project. It will be my main work, and I will give it my time and energy. Details in the coming days.
After 6 years in execution mode, I am moving into creation mode. I feel it is the right path.
Łukasz
The edition 3 group is full, we start on 13 October. In 2027 I will run only two editions, each for up to 20 people. You can join the waiting list now.
Opposition analysis in football, step by step: how I tag rival matches with Poland U-20 and how one insight gave us a goal against Portugal.
The analysis microcycle in practice: a day-by-day week of analysis with Poland U-20 and where to start with a two-person staff and no analyst.
A football analysis and tactics course for coaches, analysts and former players. Programme, Special Guests and participants' opinions. Edition 4 - March 2027, sign-ups from December.
Would you have to choose - fitness or tactics?
Kuba Zapaśnik - a coach with whom we won the U15 Polish Championship - answered without hesitation: "I try to meet the fitness goals. But if I had to choose - I will always choose to make sure the tactical and technical topics align."
In 2027 I will run only two editions of Mentoring Analiza PRO, each for up to 20 people. Edition 4 starts on 2 March 2027, sign-ups from December.
After 6 years I am leaving Legia Warsaw. What we managed to build and who I want to thank.
An interview that goes beyond the pitch: values, leadership, balancing work and family, and a few personal stories.
A Polish Championship semi-final in my sixth season at Legia - and why games like that are priceless for players.
Twice a year we opened the Legia Academy to coaches. Why it paid off - for the coaching community, for the club and for our own staff.
Coaches learn a lot, but the hardest part is taking that knowledge onto the pitch. Five ways of learning by doing that I tested in an academy.
The story of a missionary who swam across a river, and why a coaching staff works the same way: people watch what you do, not what you say.
The result does not show whether a team is developing. How to choose an area and a simple indicator for long-term analysis - with the example I use.
Two or three clips in the dressing room or on the pitch, 5 minutes at most. This is microdosing analysis with players and why it works.
A question from a podcast that changed my perspective: why should anyone follow you?
Notes from a course at Chemik Bydgoszcz: when, how and why a player supports a teammate on the ball - with clips.
The most interesting things from the Legia Sport Business Programme: the scale of sports business, what has changed sport in recent years and why data will matter more and more.
How we taught defenders in the Poland U-20 team to defend against long balls: when to let the ball run, key details and two training exercises.
De Zerbi's teams can counter-attack while in possession in a positional attack. The Brighton example and Pep Guardiola's comment.
After the pass, watch the opponent, not the ball. Three details in defending against the one-two - using the Italy U-20 team as an example.
12 of Legia's 18 games in the first half of 2023 were decided by one goal. Why organisational culture decides long-term success.
A tree in the garden, milestones instead of one big goal and a focus on the process. Why thinking only about the result doesn't bring the result.
1v1 defending and closing down using Tomasz Kędziora as an example - and how a player should decide whether to step out to an opponent.
After winning the Mazovian Polish Cup, John Wooden's definition of success came back to me - along with the question of whether we really gave everything.
I start work with every team by setting values. How to set them, how many to have and how to come back to them in difficult moments.
One week of camp, opponents from the world's top and the 4 defending elements I chose in my work with centre-backs.
Choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic, melancholic - how knowing temperaments helps me in the dressing room and in building a staff.
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