Kazimierz Górski
Kazimierz Górski [ kaʑim ʲ ɛʃ Gurski ] ( born March 2, 1921 in Lwów, † 23 May 2006, Warsaw) was a Polish football player and coach. He was elected to several sport editors for " Coach of the Century ".
Playing career
Górski began his career as a youth soccer players at RKS in Lwów, then part of Poland to Lviv (Polish: Lwów, today Ukrainian: Lviv ). At age 18, he moved to Lwów Lechia into the top regional league. He proved to be a dribbling winger, because of its rather dainty figure and graceful movements of his he got the nickname " deer " (Polish: sarenka ). Contemporaries compared his style to that of the Upper Silesian dribbling artist Ernst Willimowski the Górski then himself saw as his role model.
A few weeks after the invasion of the Red Army in what was then eastern Poland on 17 September 1939 founded the Soviet military administration there new sports clubs that were affiliated with companies. Górski played for the new club Spartak Lviv and several months for Dinamo Kiev. After the invasion of the Wehrmacht on the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 ( " Operation Barbarossa " ), the region came under German occupation. While the local Ukrainians were allowed to play in a league of its own football, was the Poles officially banned any organized sports. But Górski could play in Ukrainian clubs, which were approved not only by the German occupiers, but even were allowed to deliver a championship.
It was only in May 1944 allowed the German military authorities of Lviv a game between a team of Polish Armed Forces and Self. During this time, the Governor-General Hans Frank tried temporarily to a change of course of the German occupation policy, he wanted to win the Poles as allies in the fight against the advancing Soviet army. In the Polish team played two former national player of Pogoń Lwów: Spirydon Albański guarded the gate, Michał Matyas stormed, as well Górski, who contributed two goals in the 4-1 victory of the Poles. However, it was the Polish players ' collaboration with the Germans " accused of a part of the underground press.
After the retreat of the Germans from Lviv he played in the fall of 1944, the newly established Soviet club Dinamo Lvov. When it was announced that the former eastern Poland is connected along with his hometown to the Soviet Union, he escaped the threatened conscription into the Soviet army by fleeing to Lublin. There he joined the under Soviet command Polish units under General Zygmunt Berling a.
While still a member of the armed forces he came in the fall of 1945 to the Polish army club Legia Warsaw. For him, he completed a total of 81 compulsory games in which he scored 34 goals. In 1948 he made his first and only international match for Poland, against Denmark. In the 0:8 defeat in Copenhagen, he was substituted after 34 minutes.
Coaching career
After ending his playing career, he studied sports, specializing in football training at the Sports University in Krakow. Since 1954 Górski worked as a club coach in Poland, but without first achieving great success. His best result was the runner-up with Legia Warsaw in 1960.
Between his involvement in clubs, he took over repeated coaching job for the Polish Football Association PZPN, including the youth team and the U23. In 1971 he was promoted to head coach of the senior national team. He rejuvenated the squad and sat on offensive play. At the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 his team won the gold medal in the final against Hungary. The talents were discovered by him Kazimierz Deyna, Robert Gadocha, Grzegorz Lato, Andrzej Szarmach and Jan Tomaszewski.
International attention was paid to the Polish team, as they in qualifying for the World Cup 1974 in Germany the high Favourites England ausschaltete, the world champion of 1966, whose captain Bobby Moore was still. At the World Cup Górski sat still on attacking football, Poland scored 16 goals and thus had the most successful storm. In the group matches played among other things, his team won against Argentina ( 3-2 ) and Italy (2:1). In the second round the team Gorskis suffered to the finals a 0-1 defeat against the German hosts in the Frankfurt water battle. But she defeated in the match for third place Brazil 1-0.
After the triumphant return to Poland the party leadership to him and his successful players refused, however, the change in professional football in Western Europe, only Gadocha got the permission to do so.
Górski led the team even further to 1976 for the Olympic Games in Montreal. The final in Canada lost the Poles against the team of the GDR, which thus for the first time Olympic champion in football were. The silver medal was, however, considered after the successes of recent years in Poland as a failure, what the team and their coach were feeling already when returning to the Warsaw airport: they were contrary to the previous practice of the Polish customs strictly controlled, for a part of souvenirs were to pay high fees. Given this mood of the country Górski resigned from his post. His successor was his former assistant Jacek Gmoch. Górski was nevertheless made an honorary member of the PZPN. The balance of his work as a coach: 45 wins in 73 games.
He has now received permission to move abroad. He went to Greece. With Panathinaikos and Olympiakos, he won the championship title. In 1986, he ended his coaching career and returned to Poland.
Official of the association
In 1987, he became Vice President of PZPN and after the political change he stood between 1991 and 1995 at the head of the association. In vain he strove at this time twice a mandate for the Polish Parliament. In the elections of 1991, he appeared as a Senate candidate for the right- conservative -oriented, Christian - National Association to ( ZChN ), and 1993 Sejm candidate for the Polish Party of Beer Friends ( PPPP ), an electoral alliance with the protest party self-defense of radical peasant leader Andrzej Lepper was received.
He was appointed honorary president of the PZPN 1996.
Kazimierz Górski died after weeks of hospitalization and severe illness in Warsaw at the age of 85 years.
Honors and Awards
- Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- 2001 80th birthday drew FIFA President Sepp Blatter Górski in the gold medal for his great services to FIFA. At the ceremony in Zurich were present from Poland Zbigniew Boniek and Grzegorz Lato. From abroad, Franz Beckenbauer, Bobby Charlton, Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini and Eusebio.
- On 28 June 2012, the National Stadium in Warsaw was named after him.