Maryan Wisnieski

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Maryan Wisnieski (born February 1, 1937 in Calonne-Ricouart / Département Pas-de-Calais ) is a former French football player .

The club career

The descendant of Polish immigrants, the son of a miner , played as a youth in the right wing position for the US Auchel , where the neighboring Racing Club Lens noticed him early on and tied the only sixteen-year-old to them in 1953. Already in this season he played his first games in France's top league , and so successfully that the selection committee of the French football association nominated Wisnieski for the 36-man squad for the 1954 World Cup , but then canceled it on the final reporting date. But already in the following season the still underage whiz kid was part of the regular formation at Lens, which finished the league in third place, and he then played his first international match. In 1956 and 1957 he was runner-up with his team, and in 1955 and 1957 (with 14 and 17 hits, respectively) he was also at the top of the top scorer list. In the following years he developed in a rather mediocre club team to a team-serving player who fed the striker Oudjani and Lafranceschina with crosses and assists. The only 1.70 m tall winger was technically strong, fast, two-footed and equipped with a good eye for his teammates.

At the same time he was successful in the national team ( see below ); his performance in France's 5-2 win over England , to which Maryan Wisnieski also contributed two goals, prompted those in charge of Sampdoria Genoa to sign him at almost any price in 1963 - the northern French, however, could not cope with the Riviera and has already returned 1964 returned to France (to the reigning champions AS Saint-Étienne ), played for three years from 1966 for FC Sochaux -Montbéliard, but he did not win the title there either. With Sochaux he reached the only final in the national cup in 1967 in his 16-year-long first division career. It followed in 1969/70 one last year at the second division club FC Grenoble (according to another source at FC La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland ).

Stations

  • US Auchel (until 1953)
  • RC Lens (1953-1963)
  • Sampdoria Genoa (1963/64)
  • AS Saint-Étienne (1964–1966)
  • FC Sochaux (1966–1969)
  • FC Grenoble (1969/70, in D2)

The national player

Between April 1955 and April 1963, Maryan Wisnieski played 33 international matches for the Equipe Tricolore , scoring 12 goals. At the age of seventeen he was already part of the provisional squad for the 1954 World Cup , but was not taken to Switzerland. Four years later, however, at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden , he played all six Bleus games and, not only because of his two goals, played an active role in France's greatest international success to date, third place. In 1960 he also played both games in the finals of the first European championship for national teams .

When he first played against Sweden in April 1955 , he was only 18 years and two months old; This makes him the second youngest debutant in the French national team to this day (as of April 2017). He played his last game in the national jersey in 1963 against Brazil , in which France, despite a Wisnieski goal, narrowly failed to take revenge for the World Cup semi-finals in 1958 (2: 3). In July 1957, he was also a World Champion with France .

Life after time as a player

Wisnieski then worked as a football coach for several years , including in Grenoble, Thiers and Carpentras . From 1976 he worked as a representative for the sporting goods manufacturer Le Coq Sportif in eastern France; today he is enjoying his retirement.

Palmarès

  • French champion : Nothing (but runner-up in 1956 and 1957 with Lens)
  • French cup winner : Neither (but finalist 1967 with Sochaux)
  • 33 international matches, 12 goals; World Cup third in 1958
  • 415 Division 1 appearances, 113 goals (277/93 for Lens, 48/12 for Saint-Étienne, 90/8 for Sochaux)
  • Military world champion 1957

Remarks

  1. ^ Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003 2 ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1 , p. 275

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personal data
SURNAME Wisnieski, Maryan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Calonne-Ricouart , Pas-de-Calais department