Kazimierz Górski

Kazimierz Górski
Kazimierz Górski (1973)
Personnel
Surname	Kazimierz Klaudiusz Górski
birthday	March 2, 1921
place of birth	Lwów ,  Poland
date of death	May 23, 2006
Place of death	Warsaw ,  Poland
size	173 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1945-1953	Legia Warsaw
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1948	Poland	1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1959	KP Legia Warsaw
1960–1962	Legia Warsaw
1964-1966	Gwardia Warsaw
1971-1976	Poland
1976-1988	Panathinaikos Athens
1978-1980	FC Kastoria
1980-1981	Olympiacos Piraeus
1981-1982	Legia Warsaw
1983	Olympiacos Piraeus
1983-1985	Ethnikos Piraeus
1 Only league games are given.

Kazimierz Klaudiusz Górski [ kaˈʑimʲɛʃ ˈgurski ] (born March 2, 1921 in Lwów , † May 23, 2006 in Warsaw ) was a Polish football player and coach . He was voted Polish "Coach of the Century" by several sports newsrooms.

Player career

Górski began his footballing career as a youth at RKS Lwów in Lemberg , which at that time belonged to Poland (Polish: Lwów , now Ukrainian: Lwiw ). At the age of 18 he moved to Lechia Lwów in the top regional division. He proved to be a strong dribble winger, because of his rather petite figure and his graceful movements he was nicknamed "Deer" (Polish: Sarenka ). Contemporaries compared his style with that of the Upper Silesian dribble artist Ernst Willimowski , whom Górski himself saw as his model at the time.

A few weeks after the Red Army marched into what was then eastern Poland on September 17, 1939, the Soviet military administration founded new sports clubs there, which were affiliated with companies. Górski played for the new club Spartak Lwow and for several months also for Dinamo Kiev . After the attack by the Wehrmacht on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 (" Operation Barbarossa "), the area came under German occupation. While the native Ukrainians were allowed to play football in their own league, the Poles were officially forbidden from any organized sport. Górski was able to play in Ukrainian clubs that were not only approved by the German occupiers, but were even allowed to host a championship.

It was not until May 1944 that the German military authorities in Lemberg allowed a game between a Wehrmacht self and a Polish team. During this time, the governor general Hans Frank tried temporarily to change the course of the German occupation policy, he wanted to win the Poles as allies for the fight against the advancing Soviet army. Two former national team players from Pogoń Lwów played for the Polish team : Spirydon Albański guarded the goal, Michał Matyas stormed, as did Górski, who contributed two goals to Poland's 4-1 victory. However, the Polish players were accused of " collaboration with the Germans" by some of the underground press.

After the Germans withdrew from Lviv, he played in the newly founded Soviet club Dinamo Lwow in autumn 1944 . When it became known that what had been eastern Poland and his hometown would be connected to the Soviet Union, he evaded the threat of being drafted into the Soviet Army by fleeing to Lublin . There he joined the Polish units under General Zygmunt Berling, which were under Soviet command .

While still a member of the armed forces, he joined the Polish army club Legia Warsaw in autumn 1945 . For him he completed a total of 81 competitive games in which he scored 34 goals. In 1948 he made his first and only international match for Poland against Denmark . In the 8-0 defeat in Copenhagen, he was replaced after 34 minutes.

Coaching career

After finishing his active career, he studied sports with a specialization in football training at the Sports University in Cracow . Since 1954 Górski worked as a club coach in Poland, but initially without achieving any great success. His best result was the runner-up with Legia Warsaw in 1960.

Between his engagements at clubs, he repeatedly took on coaching positions for the Polish football association PZPN , including the national youth team and the U23. In 1971 he rose to head coach of the senior national team. He rejuvenated the squad and relied on offensive play. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , his team won the gold medal in the final against the Hungarians . The talents he discovered included Kazimierz Deyna , Robert Gadocha , Grzegorz Lato , Andrzej Szarmach, and Jan Tomaszewski .

The Polish team attracted international attention when they eliminated the favorite England in qualifying for the 1974 World Cup in Germany , the 1966 world champion whose captain was still Bobby Moore . At the World Cup, Górski continued to play offensive football, Poland scored a total of 16 goals and thus had the most successful storm. In the group games his team won u. a. against Argentina (3: 2) and Italy (2: 1). In the second round, the Elf Górskis had to accept a 0-1 defeat against the German hosts in the water battle of Frankfurt to make it into the final. But they defeated Brazil 1-0 in the game for third place .

Kazimierz Górski's grave in the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw

After his triumphant return to Poland, the party leadership refused to allow him and his successful players to switch to paid football in Western Europe, only Gadocha received approval.

Górski led the team even further until 1976 at the Olympic Games in Montreal . The Poles lost the final in Canada against the GDR team , who became Olympic champions in football for the first time. However, after the successes of the past few years in Poland, the silver medal was viewed as a failure, which the team and their coach already felt on their return to Warsaw Airport: Contrary to previous practice, they were strictly controlled by Polish customs for some of the Souvenirs had to be paid high fees. Given this mood in the country, Górski resigned from his office. His successor was his previous assistant Jacek Gmoch . Górski was made an honorary member of the PZPN. The result of his work as national coach: 45 wins in 73 games.

He has now received permission to move abroad. He went to Greece . With Panathinaikos Athens and Olympiacos Piraeus he won the championship title. In 1986 he ended his coaching career and returned to Poland.

Association official

In 1987 he became Vice President of the PZPN and after the political change he was at the head of the association between 1991 and 1995. During this time he tried in vain to win a mandate for the Polish parliament. In the 1991 elections he ran as a Senate candidate for the right-wing conservative Christian National Association (ZChN), and in 1993 as a Sejm candidate for the Polish Party of Beer Friends (PPPP), which is an electoral alliance with the protest party self-defense of the radical Farmer leader Andrzej Lepper had received.

In 1996 he was appointed honorary president of the PZPN.

Kazimierz Górski died in Warsaw at the age of 85 after weeks of hospitalization and a serious illness.

honors and awards

• Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta
• Commander-in-chief with star of the order Polonia Restituta
• Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
• 2001 For his 80th birthday, FIFA President Sepp Blatter awarded Górski with the gold medal for his great service to FIFA. Zbigniew Boniek and Grzegorz Lato from Poland were present at the ceremony in Zurich . From abroad Franz Beckenbauer , Bobby Charlton , Johan Cruyff , Eusébio and Michel Platini .
• 2003 honorary citizen of Lviv
• On June 28, 2012, the National Stadium in Warsaw was named after him.

literature

• Dopóki piłka w grze. 75 lat Kazimierza Górskiego. ("As long as the ball is in play. On KG's 75th birthday"), Oficyna Wydawnicza "SPAR", Warszawa 1996, ISBN 83-86625-40-6
• Tomasz Ławecki: Kazimierz Górski. Z piłką przez życie. Warsaw 2012.
• 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 , pp. 118–132.

Web links

Commons : Kazimierz Górski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kazimierz Górski (Polish)

Footnotes

1. ↑ «Ο σοφός παππούς Γκόρσκι» , Greek article about Górski on www.oldfootball.gr
2. ↑ Otwarto wystawę poświęconą Kazimierzowi Górskiemu.
3. ↑ Kazimierz Górski: Piłka jest okrągła. Współpraca Paweł Zarzeczny. Włocławek 2004, p. 24.
4. ^ Wprost, May 3, 2009, p. 90.
5. ↑ Володимир Пристайко: Чи був “матч смерти”? Документи свідчать. (Volodimir Pristajko: Did the “death game” exist? Documents bear witness. ). Kiev 2006, p. 127.
6. ↑ The General Government. Ed. Dr. Max Freiherr du Prel. Würzburg 1942, p. 198.
7. ↑ Stanisław Chemicz: Piłka nożna w Krakowie okupowanym. Kraków 1982, p. 200.
8. ↑ Volodymyr Hynda: Ukrainskyj sport pid nazystskoju swastykoju (1941-1944 rr.). Zhytomyr 2012, p. 311.
9. ↑ Volodymyr Hynda: Ukrainskyj sport pid nazystskoju swastykoju (1941-1944 rr.). Zhytomyr 2012, pp. 307-312.
10. ↑ Bogdan Tuszyński: Za cenę życia. Sport Polski Walczącej 1939-1945. Warszawa 2006, p. 123.
11. ^ Jacek Bryl: Wacław Kuchar. Warszawa 1982, pp. 309-310.
12. ↑ Kazimierz Górski: Piłka jest okrągła. Współpraca Paweł Zarzeczny. Włocławek 2004, p. 28.
13. ↑ Tomasz Ławecki: Kazimierz Gorski. Z piłką przez życie. Warsaw 2012. p. 31.
14. ↑ Andrzej Gowarzewski: Biało-Czerwoni 1921-2001. Katowice 2002, p. 69.
15. ↑ Piłka w grze. I, p. 17 ( Rzeczpospolita supplement , January 7, 2005)
16. ↑ Thomas Urban: Black eagles, white eagles. German and Polish footballers at the heart of politics. Göttingen 2011, p. 130.
17. ^ Pan Kazimierz wszech czasów. ( Memento from July 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
18. ↑ Poland's national stadium is named after the coach ( memento from August 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )