Ernst Pohl (soccer player)
Ernst Pohl | ||
Memorial plaque to Ernest Pohl in Ruda Śląska
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Personnel | ||
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birthday | November 3, 1932 | |
place of birth | Ruda , Poland | |
date of death | September 12, 1995 | |
Place of death | Hausach , Germany | |
size | 173 cm | |
position | Storm | |
Juniors | ||
Years | station | |
1945-1950 | Slavia Ruda Śląska | |
Men's | ||
Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
1950-1952 | Slavia Ruda Śląska | |
1952-1953 | Orzeł Łódź | |
1953-1956 | Legia Warsaw | 55 | (43)
1956-1967 | Górnik Zabrze | 209 (143) |
1968-1969 | Polonia Greenpoint New York | |
1969-1970 | Wisla Garfield | |
National team | ||
Years | selection | Games (goals) |
1955-1965 | Poland | 46 | (39)
1 Only league games are given. |
Ernst or Ernest Pohl , Polish 1952 to 1990 Ernest Pol , (born November 3, 1932 in Ruda , Poland ; † September 12, 1995 in Hausach , Germany ) was a Silesian football player .
Career
societies
Born in Ruda (since 1959 Ruda Śląska ), he started playing football at the age of 13 for the local club Slavia Ruda Śląska . Out of adolescence he played from 1950 to 1952 first for the second team of Slavia Ruda Śląska, then for one season for Orzeł Łódź from the town of the same name and then, until 1956, for the first division club Legia Warsaw . With the Warsaw team he won the double twice in a row . From 1956 to 1967 he played 209 point games for the league competitor Górnik Zabrze , for whom he scored 143 goals and thus contributed to eight Polish championships and was once a cup winner.
The last two seasons Pohl completed in the United States for Polonia Greenpoint New York and Wisła Garfield .
National team
From 1955 to 1965, Pohl played 46 international matches for the national team of Poland and scored 39 goals, a remarkable rate. He took part in the Olympic football tournament held in Rome from August 26 to September 10, 1960 , and played all three group matches . In the first, in the 6-1 win against the Tunisian national team , he scored five goals. After the second and third group games were lost with 1: 2 and 0: 2 against the national team of Denmark and Argentina , he and his team were eliminated from the tournament as third in the group .
successes
Legia Warsaw
- Polish champion 1955, 1956
- Polish cup winner 1955, 1956
Górnik Zabrze
- Polish champion 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967
- Polish cup winner 1965
Awards
- Three times football player of the year
- Top scorer in 1954 (together with Kempny), 1959 (together with Liberda), 1961
Others
With 186 goals to date, Pohl is the most successful goalscorer in the Polish football league. After the political system change in Poland , he moved to Germany in the Black Forest in 1989 or 1990 , where his wife and daughter had already lived for a long time. Pohl died on September 12, 1995 at the age of 62 in Hausach, a town in the Ortenau district in Baden-Württemberg .
In the presence of his widow Marianne Pohl, Górnik Zabrze's stadium was named after him on April 5, 2004.
Web links
- Ernst Pohl in the database of weltfussball.de
- Exhibition “Oberschlesier in the German and Polish national soccer teams - yesterday and today. Sport and Politics in Upper Silesia in the 20th Century "
Individual evidence
- ↑ In 1952, in socialist post-war Poland, his name was Polonized to Ernest Pol . After 1990 his name was changed back to Ernest Pohl. In Germany, the Ernst Pohl form is mostly used.
- ↑ a b Thomas Urban: Black eagles, white eagles. German and Polish footballers at the heart of politics . Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89533-775-8 , p. 136-137 .
- ↑ Upper Silesia Current. (PDF; 180 kB) Ernst Pohl Stadium. (No longer available online.) In: Hindenburger Heimatbrief. November 1, 2005, p. 2 (or 5) , archived from the original on June 4, 2015 ; Retrieved September 10, 2010 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Pohl, Ernst |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pol, Ernest |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish soccer player |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1932 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ruda Śląska |
DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 1995 |
Place of death | Hausach , Germany |