Wladislaw Kowalski

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Wladislaw Kowalski (born September 13, 1927 in Joudreville , Département Meurthe-et-Moselle , † April 15, 2007 ) was a French football player and coach .

Player career

From 1947 on, the 172 centimeter tall defender wore the jersey of a club from the Lorraine town of Piennes , with whom he made it into the top French amateur league in 1950 . With the team he also reached first place in the table in their group a year later, but this did not result in promotion.

A year after the failed promotion, the player still managed to get into professional football when he signed with the second division SCO Angers in 1952 . At Angers he was able to establish himself in the team from the start and after some time became an indispensable performer, so that he was on the field in all 38 games in the second division during the 1955/56 season. This season brought for the club, thanks to a second place, promotion to the top national league with it. Thus, Kowalski reached in 1956, in which he was already 29 years old, his first division debut and remained an integral part of the team afterwards; Most of the time he was also the captain. In addition to the successes in the league, Angers was in the national cup final in 1957 , which however was lost 3: 6 against FC Toulouse and Kowalski was therefore unable to bring in the hoped-for national title. In the major league he was able to establish himself with the club in the following years, with a fourth rank in 1958 represented the best placement. At the age of 33, the defender was called up in all games of the 1960/61 season; nevertheless he turned his back on Angers after nine years and also left the first division, in which he had played 178 games without scoring.

In 1961 the professional, who was nicknamed "Koko", moved to the second division club FC Grenoble , with whom he won the second division championship in 1962 and at the same time rose to the first division; However, he decided against returning and went to second division rivals FC Limoges . In Limoges, the then 35-year-old footballer was one of the top performers despite his age and did not miss a single game in the 1962/63 season. At the end of this time, he retired from professional football. He was denied entry into France's senior team, but Kowalski played for the country's amateur team during his time in Piennes.

Coaching career

Following the end of his professional career, Kowalski found work at the amateur club FC Aurillac in 1963, where he was intended as a player-coach. Although he never got beyond membership of the Division d'Honneur with the club , he was able to carry out his office for many years despite everything; he stayed with the team as a player and only gave up playing when he lost his coaching position in 1974 at the age of 46. In the same year he was hired as a coach at the also lower class FC Bressuire, where he worked until 1975.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pierre Danzelle complete profile ( memento of August 21, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), soccerdatabase.eu
  2. ↑ Wladislaw Kowalski , pari-et-gagne.com
  3. ↑ Football: Wladislaw Kowalski , footballdatabase.eu
  4. ↑ Wladislaw Kowalski , scoangers.blogspot.de
personal data
SURNAME Kowalski, Vladislav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Joudreville , France
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 2007