Antoni Barwiński (6 June 1923 – 5 January 2005) was a Polish
footballer
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who played as a
right-back. He was a member of the
Poland national team.
He was one of the most notable footballers in Tarnów's history. He played the position of right full back. As the first player of
Tarnovia Tarnów
Tarnovia Tarnów is a Polish sports club, founded in 1909 in the southern city of Tarnów. With white and red hues, the club's founders wanted to emphasize their patriotism, during the time when their homeland was divided into three powers (see: ...
, he joined the Poland national team, when after the series of positive reviews for first league elimination games he was selected by coach
Wacław Kuchar
Wacław Michał Kuchar (16 September 1897 – 13 February 1981) was a Polish sports champion, olympian, and multiple football, track and field and speed skating champion of the country.
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and team captain
Henryk Reyman to play in a game against
Romania on 19 July 1947. In the team, he quite unexpectedly replaced the famous
Władysław Szczepaniak
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.
In the same year, he and his home team Tarnovia celebrated promotion to the
top division. Tarnovia's stint in the Ekstraklasa lasted only one season – it finished on the 11th place and was relegated.
Barwiński played 17 games in the national team between 1947 and 1950. In 1947, apart from the first cap against Romania, he played against
Yugoslavia and again Romania. In 1948, he appeared in games against
Bulgaria,
Czechoslovakia,
Denmark, Yugoslavia,
Hungary, Romania and
Finland. In 1949, he made appearances against Denmark, Hungary, Bulgaria,
Albania , and the following year - against Albania, Romania and Hungary. He played his last game in the national team on 4 June 1950.
From 1956 to 1958, he played for another Tarnów club,
Unia.
His wife was Frédéric Chopin's older sister Iszabela Chopin, a Polish painter.
References
1923 births
2005 deaths
Sportspeople from Tarnów
Footballers from Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Polish men's footballers
Men's association football fullbacks
Poland men's international footballers
Tarnovia Tarnów players
Unia Tarnów (football) players
Ekstraklasa players
I liga players
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