Antoni Piechniczek

Antoni Piechniczek
Piechniczek (2010)
Personnel
Surname	Antoni Krzysztof Piechniczek
birthday	May 3, 1942
place of birth	Königshütte ,  German Empire
size	180 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1960	Zryw Chorzów
1960-1961	Naprzód Lipiny
1962-1965	Legia Warsaw	56 (5)
1965-1972	Ruch Chorzów	151 (6)
1972-1973	LB Châteauroux	17 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1967-1969	Poland	3 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1973-1975	BKS Stal Bielsko-Biała
1975-1979	Odra Opole
1980-1981	Ruch Chorzów
1981-1986	Poland
1986-1987	Górnik Zabrze
1988	Tunisia
1989	Tunisia
1992-1994	UAE
1996-1997	Poland
2000-2001	Górnik Zabrze
1 Only league games are given.

Antoni Krzysztof Piechniczek (born May 3, 1942 in Königshütte , Upper Silesia ) is a former Polish football player and coach .

Life

Antoni Piechniczek is the son of the Silesian mechanic and Wehrmacht soldier Emil Piechniczek, who was arrested by the NKVD in 1945 . Emil Piechniczek was imprisoned in Vitebsk , where he died on May 8, 1945. Antoni Piechniczek now lives in Wisła .

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Sports career

During his playing days, Piechniczek was a defensive midfielder and right back. He played for Legia Warsaw from 1962 to 1965 and then from 1965 to 1972 in his hometown club Ruch Chorzów . In the 1972/1973 season he played for a year in Chateauroux , France , before ending his active career. The greatest success of the three-time Polish national player was winning the Polish championship in 1968 with Ruch Chorzów.

The graduate of the Warsaw Sports University then started working as a trainer. His club stations were: BKS Bielsko-Biała , Odra Opole , Ruch Chorzów, Górnik Zabrze . Abroad he worked for clubs in Qatar , United Arab Emirates and Tunisia . His greatest successes as a club coach were winning the Polish league cup in 1977 with Odra Opole and the Polish championship in 1987 with Górnik Zabrze.

In December 1980 he was appointed to the national coaching position of the Polish national soccer team. He began his work on January 5, 1981 and in his first year qualified for the 1982 World Cup in Spain . This tournament was to be the last big triumph of a Polish team in a World Cup tournament. After rather weaker games in the preliminary round against Cameroon , Italy and Peru , the team made it to the semi-finals in the second final round after a victory over Belgium and a draw against the Soviet Union . Italy were too strong, however, after their 2-0 defeat against eventual world champions, they managed a 3-2 win against France in the game for third place. As at the 1974 World Cup in Germany , Poland won the bronze medal.

Although Piechniczek was unable to qualify with his team for the European Football Championship in France in 1984 , he remained national coach and qualified again for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico . However, the team had already passed their zenith. They survived the preliminary round and knocked Portugal out of the tournament, but Brazil were too strong in the round of 16. Then Piechniczek resigned from his office. In May 1996 he returned to this post again to lead Poland to the 1998 World Cup in France. This failed, however, and he resigned again on June 7, 1997. Piechniczek also worked abroad as the national coach of Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates. With Tunisia he took part in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul .

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