Major League Soccer's Columbus Crew announced Friday they have exercised the 2011 option season on head coach Robert Warzycha, committing him to a third season in that position with the franchise.
Warzycha, who replaced Sigi Schmid as head coach July 12, 2005, when he left to join the then-expansion Seattle Sounders, played for the Crew from 1996 to 2002 and had 19 goals in regular season play and two goals and nine assists in 17 career playoff games.
In a 16-game interim season, after Schmid led them to a 4-10-2, Warzycha turned the team around and went 7-6-3 to finished 11-16-5 with 38 points.
A two-time MLS All-Star and the team's Most Valuable Player in 2000, he is the Crew's all-time assists leader with 61.
In 2002, he served as a player/assistant coach during the team's Lamar Hunt US Open Cup championship run, then retired as a player and became solely an assistant coach in the 2003 season.
Warzycha has a 31-17-17 record as the Crew's head coach in regulat season games and is 35-23-21 in all competitions.
In 2009, he led the Crew to the league's Supporters Shield for bext overall record at 13-7-10 with 49 points and to the quarterfinal round of the 2009-10 CONCACAF Champions League. He was also a finalist for MLS Coach of the Year honors.
Warzycha, a native of Poland, played 47 times for his national team between 1988 and 1995 and spent three seasons in the English Premier League (1991-94) with Everton.
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