Jan Furtok

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Jan Furtok
Personnel
birthday March 9, 1962
place of birth Katowice ,  Poland
position striker
Juniors
Years station
until 1977 MK Górnik Katowice
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1977-1988 GKS Katowice 169 (77)
1988-1993 Hamburger SV 135 (51)
1993-1995 Eintracht Frankfurt 53 0(9)
1995-1997 GKS Katowice 40 0(8)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1984-1993 Poland 36 (10)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2005 GKS Katowice
1 Only league games are given.

Jan Furtok (born March 9, 1962 in Katowice , Poland ) is a former Polish football player .

career

Jan Furtok's sporting career began in the youth team of Górnik MK Katowice . In 1977 he moved to local rivals GKS Katowice , where he became a regular player from 1982 and with whom he reached the final of the Polish Football Cup ( Puchar Polski ) three times in a row from 1985 to 1987 . After losing twice on penalties with GKS Katowice in 1985 in Warsaw (1: 3 against Widzew Łódź ) and 1987 in Opole (3: 4 against Śląsk Wrocław ), he achieved the biggest in 1986 in Chorzów in a 4-1 win over Górnik Zabrze Success of his football career. In the same year, the striker also took part in the World Cup in Mexico with the Polish national team. In total, he played in 36 international matches for Poland, in which he scored 10 goals.

In 1988 Furtok moved to the Bundesliga club Hamburger SV , for which he was active for five years. The GKS Katowice and the Polish Football Association PZPN had shared the transfer fee. In Hamburg Furtok was the successor to his compatriot Mirosław Okoński and scored a goal in his first game for HSV. In the meantime, the Polish authorities refused to allow the wife of Jan Furtok and the four and two-year-old children to leave for Hamburg on the suspicion of having been an accomplice in Andrzej Rudy's escape plans . After two months, the family traveled after Hamburger SV switched on the German Football Association (DFB). Furtok later received German citizenship , as his ancestors in Upper Silesia were imperial citizens.

In the 1990/91 season Furtok was the second top scorer behind Roland Wohlfarth with 20 goals and set a record for Polish players in the Bundesliga, which was only outbid by Robert Lewandowski in 2012 . Especially with the summer 1991 Lazio exchanged Thomas Doll as playmaker made Furtok together with Nando an extremely prolific storm. In the 1991/92 season , a cruciate ligament rupture forced him to take a six-month injury break. Furtok was seen as a strong dribble and ball-safe player, who was characterized by a certain "shrewdness", but who willingly looked for a penalty decision even with physical contact in the opposing penalty area. With the supporters of HSV, he still has a legendary status, not least because of his goal against Waldhof Mannheim at the end of the 1989/90 season, which ensures relegation . At Frankfurter Eintracht , as a strike partner of Anthony Yeboah , he could not quite build on his performance at Hamburger SV.

With HSV he reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup in 1990 (0-2 and 2-1 against Juventus Turin ). Also in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup, Furtok failed four years later with Frankfurter Eintracht, for which he was active from 1993 to 1995, at SV Austria Salzburg . Without a title win in Germany, he left the Bundesliga in 1995 after 188 games and returned to his home country to GKS Katowice.

After finishing his active career, he became a coach at GKS Katowice in 2005 and was relegated with the club from the Ekstraklasa , Poland's top football league. After an interlude as a junior coach at PZPN, he was elected President of GKS Katowice.

Numbers and dates

  • Bundesliga debut : October 29, 1988 for HSV (1: 1 against Karlsruher SC ; goalscorer to 1: 1)
  • Last Bundesliga game : June 10, 1995 with Eintracht Frankfurt (1: 3 against Hamburger SV)
  • Success as a football professional :

literature

Web links

  • Jan Furtok in the database of weltfussball.de
  • Jan Furtok in the database of fussballdaten.de
  • Jan Furtok in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
  • Jan Furtok in the 90minut.pl database (Polish)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Jan Furtok - International Appearances . RSSSF . August 25, 2016. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 152-153 .
  3. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Jan Furtok - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF . August 25, 2016. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Furtok, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Katowice , Poland