Jean Swiatek

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Jean Swiatek
Personnel
birthday December 11, 1921
place of birth Duszniki,  Poland
date of death 17th May 2017
size 183 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
CS Blénod
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1943-1954 Girondins Bordeaux 214 (3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1944-1950 France 5 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Janek "Jean" Swiatek (born December 11, 1921 in Duszniki, Poland ; † May 17, 2017 ) was a French football player of Polish origin who spent his entire professional career at Girondins Bordeaux and played five times for the French national team.

Life and club career

The 183 centimeter tall defender Swiatek was born in Poland, but came to the Lorraine region, which belongs to France, as a toddler . He lived in Blénod-lès-Pont-à-Mousson, which was dominated by the mining industry, and began playing football when he was a teenager at CS Blénod , who lived there. The minor who quit smoking for sport did so against the opposition of his parents. During the Second World War , the German occupiers sent him to Saarbrücken on the other side of the border in 1942 , where he had to do obligatory forced labor as part of the Service du travail . In the following year, however, he managed to escape and arrived on May 19, 1943 in Bordeaux, southwest France.

Shortly after his arrival in Bordeaux in 1943 he joined the second team of the large city club Girondins Bordeaux. In 1944 he moved up to the first selection, which took part in the unofficial staging of the championship and thus actually belonged to the first division. He became an integral part of the defense and was able to assert himself in this after regular play was resumed in 1945 and he was now officially in the top national league. Although the team had to accept relegation to the second division in 1947, the national player remained loyal to his club and was involved in the rise in 1949. This was followed by a season 1949/50 in which the climbers from the southwest won the national championship by a clear margin, with Swiatek being the captain of this team.

Also in 1950, the team was in the final for the Coupe Latine and led against Benfica Lisbon until shortly before the end. In the penultimate minute of the game, the captain asked a teammate to knock the ball out. Because he lost the game device and Lisbon managed to equalize, a replay was possible, which the Portuguese won. Although the title did not defend and despite good placements no further championship win could be achieved, the team made it to the national cup final in 1952 . Swiatek led the team from Bordeaux onto the pitch, but missed a possible title win with a 5-3 loss to OGC Nice . Some time later, the captain fell from the first team when he felt not ready to play in the run-up to a league match against FC Sochaux in 1953 due to a slight knee injury and was replaced by Jacques Grimonpon . The latter made the breakthrough, while Swiatek was barely considered. He then ended his professional career in 1954 at the age of 32 after 144 first division games with one goal and 70 second division games with two goals as well as other unofficial first division games.

The former professional wore the jersey of the amateur club ESA Brive from 1954 to 1955 , before he played for a club from Saint-Jean-d'Angély in the late 1950s . Together with his former teammate René Gallice , he ran a sportswear shop in downtown Bordeaux.

National team

Swiatek received French citizenship on April 27, 1932 at the age of ten and thus fulfilled the basic requirements for admission to the French national team . He was 23 years old when he made his debut on December 24, 1944 in a 3-1 win over Belgium for them. This was followed from now on occasional considerations, among other things when he had to defend against the top player Stanley Matthews in 1945 at Wembley Stadium in a 3-0 defeat by the English and was then congratulated for his performance among the team. He was last called up on June 4, 1950 in a 4-1 loss to Belgium. In total, he was used in five international matches without being able to score a goal. He did not get to participate in a world championship. A comeback to the national team that had been promised to him in 1952 failed when the player was left alone at the train station in Paris despite a previous nomination.

Individual evidence

  1. It cannot be clarified whether it is the place (in German Duschnik ) in the powiat Szamotulski or a place of the same name in the powiat Sieradzki .
  2. Frederic Laharie: Jean Swiatek, capitaine of the premiers Girondins de France champions, est décédé. In: sudouest.fr. Groupe Sud Ouest, May 17, 2017, accessed May 17, 2017 (French).
  3. ^ Jean Swiatek - Fiche de stats du joueur de football , pari-et-gagne.com
  4. ^ Jean Swiatek complete profile ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: soccerdatabase.eu.
  5. ^ A b Jean Swiatek, ancien girondin et doyen des internationaux français de football, fête ses 88 ans. In: aqui.fr. (French).
  6. swiatek: Girondins ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: girondins.blogs.sudouest.fr. (French).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / girondins.blogs.sudouest.fr
  7. ^ Joueur - Jean Swiatek. In: fff.fr. (French).