Adam Wolanin

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Adam Wolanin
Personnel
Surname Adam S. Wolanin
birthday November 13, 1919
place of birth Lviv ,  Second Polish Republic
date of death October 26, 1987
Place of death Park Ridge , Illinois ,  USA
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1939 Pogoń Lwów
Blackpool II FC
~ 1941 ~ Spartak Moscow
1947-1949 Chicago Maroons
1949-1950 AAC Eagles
1950-1953 Chicago Falcons
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1950 United States 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Adam S. Wolanin (born November 13, 1919 in Lviv , Second Polish Republic , † October 26, 1987 in Park Ridge , Illinois , United States ) was a Polish -US football player on the position of a striker . In 1976 he was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in the Player category .

Career

Adam Wolanin was born on November 13, 1919 in the city ​​of Lviv, now in the Ukraine , which at that time belonged to the Second Polish Republic, and grew up here. After starting his career as a football player here, the striker made it into the squad of the then first division club Pogoń Lwów at the age of 17 and belonged to the club until its dissolution after the invasion of Soviet troops and the subsequent occupation of eastern Poland in September 1939. Subsequently Wolanin fled at the outbreak of World War II to England , where he at first in the second team of FC Blackpool found shelter before even the official game was shut down due to the fighting in England. Soon after, Wolanin is said to have emigrated to the United States, where he settled in the Chicago area in the US state of Illinois and worked as a butcher besides playing football . In the meantime he is said to have started for the successful Soviet club Spartak Moscow around 1941 , but returned to the United States shortly afterwards. Over the next few years he worked for various teams from the area in and around Chicago and was regularly appointed to regional selection. For example, he appeared in 1943 for the Mid-West All-Stars , an all-star team with players from the Midwest . Between 1947 and 1949 he played for the Chicago Maroons soccer team in the then popular National Soccer League of Chicago .

In 1949 there was a change to the amateur team AAC Eagles , founded by Polish immigrants in 1940 , which at that time appeared in the National Soccer League of Chicago and from the following year took part in the game under the name Chicago Eagles . At the same time, he was also drafted into the United States national football team , which was coached by the native Scotsman William Jeffrey at the time. Under Jeffrey he took part in the Soccer World Cup in Brazil in 1950 , where he was used as a right winger in the first game of Group 2 against Spain and lost the game with the Americans 3-1. In the two subsequent group games against England (1-0 win) and Chile (2-5 defeat), Wolanin was then unused on the bench and was not used until his team was eliminated from the bottom of the group. His international match against Spain would also be his last in his active football career. After returning from Brazil, he continued his career with the Chicago Falcons , where he was finally used from 1950 to 1953 and won the US Cup with the team in 1953 .

Even before winning the National Challenge Cup , the team made the jump from the NSL First Division to the NSL Major Division in 1952 and in the same year won the so-called Peel Cup , the football championship of the state of Illinois, which at the time was next to the National Challenge Cup was considered one of the highest awards for teams in US football. The Chicago Falcons also emerged as the winners of the Peel Cup in the year they won the National Challenge Cup. During the 1940s and 1950s he also had some appearances with the Chicago All-Stars , an all-star team with Chicago players from various teams, with whom he played against ŠK Slovan Bratislava in 1948, against Hamburger SV and Beşiktaş in 1950 Istanbul or 1951 against AIK Stockholm . He also played in 1948 for a selection of the National Soccer League of Chicago against Djurgårdens IF and in 1949 against IFK Göteborg . Nothing is known about Adam Wolanin's later life, but after 1953, at the age of 33 or 34, he retired from active sport, but lived near Chicago until the end of his life. After the native Pole was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in the category "Player" in 1976 , he died on October 26, 1987 shortly before his 68th birthday in the small town of Park Ridge , a northwest suburb of Chicago. In 1992, around five years after his death, he was posthumously inducted into the Illinois Soccer Hall of Fame .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adam Wolanin in the Pogoń Lwów squad in 1939 (Polish), accessed on September 19, 2016
  2. ^ Hall of Fame Inductees - Illinois State Soccer Association , accessed September 19, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Wolanin, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolanin, Adam S. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv , Second Polish Republic
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1987
Place of death Park Ridge , Illinois , United States