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'''Ryszard Kulesza''' (born September 28, 1931 in [[Warsaw]], died May 19, 2008 in Warsaw) was a [[Poland|Polish]] footballer, coach and official, one of managers of the [[Poland national football team]]. His father was killed during [[Warsaw Uprising]], and Kulesza himself, who was 13, was very lucky to survive, as a German soldier threw him under a passing tank. After the uprising, he was forcibly taken to Germany as [[OST-Arbeiter]], but escaped and returned to Poland on foot.
After the war, Kulesza played in such teams, as [[Okęcie Warszawa]], [[Polonia Warsaw]], and [[Polonia Bydgoszcz]]. He ended footballers' career in 1961, and began working as a coach. In 1972-1974, Kulesza coached [[Lechia Gdańsk]], and since 1974, he worked with several national teams of Poland, such as U-21 (1974–1975), and U-23 (1975–1978). In 1976, Kulesza co-worked with [[Kazimierz Górski]], and later with [[Jacek Gmoch]] (1976–1977 and 1978). In October 1978, after Gmoch's resignation, he took the post of general manager of Polish national team, but
In the 1980s, Kulesza worked in [[Tunisia]] and [[Morocco]], returning to Poland in late 1980s. He became an activist of the [[Polish Football Federation]] (PZPN), founding the school of football coaches, which was popularly called ''kuleszówka''. He actively fought corruption, and in 1993, he supported stripping [[Legia Warsaw]] of its championship title, after Warsaw's team routed [[Wisła Kraków]] 6-0 in Kraków, in a scandalous game. Kulesza died in a hospital, suffering from [[Alzheimer disease]]. He was buried on May 29, 2008, at Warsaw's Czerniaków Cemetery.
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