Jerzy Gorgoń

Jerzy Paweł Gorgoń ( born July 18, 1949 in Zabrze - Mikulczyce, Poland ) is a former Polish football player.

The 1.92 m tall blond defender Gorgoń was called by his colleagues of Lange. Because of his football skills, he was one of the most striking phenomena in Polish football in the 1970s. The trained Bergmann began his career at MGKS Mikulczyce, since 1967, he played for the premiership football club of his hometown Gornik Zabrze. With this team he was zwischen1968 and 1972 five consecutive Polish Cup winner. 1971 and 1972 he was also still Polish champion and thus created the Double. In 1970, he reached with his team the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup, but they lost 1-2 against Manchester City. In the same year he also made ​​his debut in the Polish national football team.

In the white-red national jersey he also celebrated his greatest footballing achievements. At the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, he had two goals for the 2-1 win in the first round game against the GDR crucial role in ensuring that Poland could be Olympic champion later. The finale played the team of Gorgoń against Hungary.

He was also on the field, as Poland in 1973 threw two legendary games of the England World Cup qualification. With the Football World Cup 1974 in Germany, he won the bronze medal. In the Summer Olympics 1976 in Montreal, he won the silver medal after a 1-3 defeat against the GDR. He finished his international career at the World Cup in Argentina in 1978 after 55 internationals from. He played a total of 12 matches at World Cups.

His active career he trailed off from 1980 to 1983 the FC St. Gallen in Switzerland. He was then coach of the youth and reserve team.

Achievements

• Polish Champion (1971, 1972)
• Polish Cup winner (1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972)
• World Cup bronze medalist (1974 )
• Olympic gold medal (1972 )
• Olympic silver medal (1976 )

• Olympic Champions (Football )
• Olympian (Poland )
• Born in 1949
• Person ( Zabrze )
• Man
• National football team (Poland )
• Pole