Lucjan Brychczy

Lucjan Brychczy ( born July 13, 1934 in Nowy Bytom (now Ruda Śląska ), Poland, called Kici ) is a former Polish footballer and football coach.

Club career

He was considered one of the best strikers in the 1950s and 1960s. Brychczy played his entire career long for the army club Legia Warsaw. In 368 games for the capital club he scored 182 goals. Lucjan Brychczy is a Legia legend and holds some records ( most games ( 452 games), the most goals ( 227 goals), the longest team membership ( almost 18 years) and the oldest scorer (37 years 2 months 31 days ) ). Despite Offered by, inter alia, Real Madrid and AC Milan, he could not move abroad as an officer of the Polish Army.

National

For Poland, he played 58 international matches and scored 18 goals. He never took part in a World Cup or European Championship since Poland was never able to qualify at this time. In 1960 he participated with the Polish national football team at the Olympics in Rome.

Achievements

• Polish Champion (1955, 1956, 1969 and 1970 )
• Polish Cup winner (1955, 1956, 1964 and 1966)
• Polish scorer (1957, 1964 and 1965)

Coaching career

Lucjan Brychczy was repeatedly assistant coach and head coach of Legia Warsaw. With Legia he won in 1973 and 1990, the Polish Cup.