Jan Tomaszewski
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | January 9, 1948 | |
| place of birth | Wroclaw , Poland | |
| position | goalkeeper | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1960–1962 | Śląsk Wrocław | |
| 1963-1967 | Gwardia Wrocław | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1967-1970 | Śląsk Wrocław | |
| 1970-1972 | Legia Warsaw | 19 (0) |
| 1972-1988 | ŁKS Łódź | 155 (1) |
| 1978-1981 | Germinal beerschot | 85 (0) |
| 1981-1982 | Hércules Alicante | 12 (0) |
| 1982-1984 | ŁKS Łódź | 4 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1971-1981 | Poland | 63 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Jan Tomaszewski (born January 9, 1948 in Breslau , Poland ) is a former Polish football player who has become a politician. He was the goalkeeper of the Polish national soccer team , which reached 3rd place at the 1974 World Cup in the Federal Republic of Germany .
Life
Tomaszewski, who wore the shirt number "2", which is unusual for a goalkeeper, was part of the regular cast of the most successful national team in Polish football history , along with Kazimierz Deyna , Grzegorz Lato and Andrzej Szarmach .
Among his compatriots he was revered as the "hero of Wembley" because of his performance in the decisive qualifying game for the 1974 World Cup on October 17, 1973 in London, because he saved more than two dozen shots on his goal in his team's 1-1 draw against England and only could be defeated by a penalty kick. In this way he made a significant contribution to the first qualification of a Polish team for a World Cup finals since 1938, while England, the 1966 world champions , had to stay at home.
In the " Water Battle of Frankfurt " on July 3, 1974 between the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland in the Frankfurt Waldstadion , he held a penalty kicked by Uli Hoeneß , but could not prevent the 0-1 defeat of his team by a goal by Gerd Müller .
He had already parried a penalty from Staffan Tapper in the game against Sweden . He was the first goalkeeper in World Cup history to save two penalties during a tournament.
Tomaszewski played a total of 11 World Cup games (7 in Germany in 1974, 4 in Argentina in 1978 ). In total, he was in 63 international matches in the Polish goal. He ended his active career in 1984. He then worked as a goalkeeping coach, club official and television commentator.
In 2011 he was drawn into politics. The Law and Justice Party (PiS) led by Jarosław Kaczyński put Tomaszewski on a safe list for the parliamentary elections in the same year. As a member of parliament, he joined the Sejm's sports committee . Before the European Football Championship in 2012 , he denounced the waste of taxpayers' money in the construction of the stadiums.
He also criticized the fact that national coach Franciszek Smuda called players into the national team who did not grow up in Poland and spoke little or no Polish, but who were naturalized in a fast-track procedure on the grounds that they belonged to their ancestors Poles . “This is no longer a typical Polish team, but the trash can in Europe,” he said, referring to the players Polanski , Boenisch , Obraniak and Perquis , who played in the German and French U-national teams.
In July 2014 Tomaszewski left the PiS parliamentary group in the Sejm. In this way, according to party leader Jarosław Kaczyński, he was expelled from the parliamentary group. Kaczyński stated that Tomaszewski had taken a “pro-Putin position” in the debate about sanctions against Moscow because of the military conflict in Ukraine : he had spoken out against a boycott of the 2018 World Cup in Russia by the Russian President Vladimir Putin should be made to give in to the conflict.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Urban : Black eagles, white eagles. German and Polish footballers at the heart of politics. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89533-775-8 , p. 121.
- ↑ "The color fox hunter" about Jan Tomaszewski, Paul Linke in the Frankfurter Rundschau of June 8, 2012, supplement to the EM 2012, page S9
- ↑ “'Colored Foxes', Poland mocked as Europe's trash can” , Patrick Krull in Die Welt of June 8, 2012, last accessed on June 17, 2012
- ↑ Kaczyński: Tomaszewski usunięty za proputinowskie wypowiedzi Polska Agencja Prasowa (Pap) from July 28, 2014.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Tomaszewski, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish football goalkeeper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw , Poland |