Jan Urban

Jan Urban strikes me as the kind of football lifer the sport quietly depends on. A striker at the 1986 World Cup, deeply tied to Gornik Zabrze and beloved at Osasuna in Spain, he later returned to coach the very clubs that shaped him and now leads Poland's national team. I find that full-circle loyalty compelling. Plenty of players chase the next big move, but Urban's career reads like a slow, faithful conversation with the game across decades. The fact that he won affection on both sides of a national border tells me he carries something more than tactics, a real human warmth.

Name (English)

Jan Urban

Name (Japanese)

ヤン・ウルバン

Reading

やん・うるばん

Born

May 14, 1962 (age 64)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Tiger

Origin

Jaworzno, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Height

179 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Urban
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q562409

Tags

• Silesian Voivodeship
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.