Jan Tomaszewski

Jan Tomaszewski ( born January 9, 1948 in Wroclaw, Poland ) is a former Polish football player. He was goalkeeper of Poland national football team, which reached the 3rd place in the Federal Republic of Germany at the World Cup in 1974.

Life

Tomaszewski, who wore the unusual back number "2", was, together with Kazimierz Deyna, Grzegorz Lato and Andrzej Szarmach to the starting eleven of the most best national teams in Polish football history.

Tomaszewski became among the football fans worldwide fame through his great performance in the crucial qualifying match for the FIFA 1974 World Cup on October 17, 1973 at Wembley Stadium, when he could be defeated only by a penalty in the 1-1 his team against England and so significantly to first qualification of a Polish team for the World Cup finals contributed since 1938.

In the memorable " Frankfurt water battle " from July 3, 1974 between the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland in the Frankfurt Forest stadium he held a came by Uli Hoeness penalty, but could not prevent the 0-1 defeat his team with a goal by Gerd Müller.

Previously he had parried a penalty in the game against Sweden by Staffan Tapper, so that he was the first goalkeeper in World Cup history to hold two penalties during a tournament.

Tomaszewski completed a total of 11 World Cup matches ( 7 in Germany in 1974, 4 in Argentina 1978) and a total of 63 caps for Poland. He ended his active career in 1984 and may well Kazimierz Deyna be counted among the best players of Polish football with players such as Zbigniew Boniek, Jerzy Gorgoń, Grzegorz Lato, Włodzimierz Lubański, Ernst Willimowski as well as the official century footballer.

After finishing his career as a football player he was as a goalkeeper coach, club official and ( popular ) television commentator active before he moved in 2011 into politics. In Jarosław Kaczyński's Law and Justice Party Tomaszewski was offered a safe list place he took after the general election as a deputy in the Sejm to make in Poland sentiment towards the Euro 2012 football championship, by criticizing the waste of taxpayers' money in the construction of stadiums, which earned him the approval by the people, and the Polish national team failed its support, which immediately made ​​him unpopular again.

Attracted attention in the latter context, his statement about Polish national players who had previously played in other national youth teams. "This is not a typical Polish team more, but the dustbin of Europe ," he said with regard to gamers Polanski, Boenisch, Obraniak and Perquis.