Antoni Jan Szymanowski (born 13 January 1951 in
Tomaszów Mazowiecki
Tomaszów Mazowiecki (, yi, טאָמעשעוו or ''Tomashuv'') is a city in central Poland with 60,529 inhabitants (2021). The fourth most populous city in the Łódź Voivodeship and the second with free public transport. In Tomaszów Mazowiec ...
) is a former Polish
football
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right-back
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Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...
, and a member of the
Poland national football team
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in two
FIFA World Cup
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s:
1974
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and
1978
Events January
* January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
* January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...
. During those tournaments his club was
Wisła Kraków
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. Szymanowski was one of the best defenders in Poland during the golden era of Polish football. In the later years of his career he played for the Belgian team
Club Brugge KV
(), known simply as Club Brugge (in English also: ''Club Bruges''), is a Belgian professional football club based in Bruges, Belgium. It was founded in 1891 and its home ground is the Jan Breydel Stadium, which has a capacity of 29,062. . Currently he is a manager of
Przebój Wolbrom - the club playing in Polish
IV Liga
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. He has also a brother (
Henryk Szymanowski) who was a footballer as well.
He also competed for Poland at the
1972
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and
1976 Summer Olympics
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 Phi ...
.
Honours
Club
*
Polish Cup
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: 1967
*
UEFA Intertoto Cup
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: 1969, 1970 & 1973
*
Ekstraklasa
Poland Ekstraklasa (), meaning "Extra Class" in Polish, named PKO Ekstraklasa since the 2019–20 season due to its sponsorship by PKO Bank Polski, is the top Polish professional league for men's association football teams.
Contested by 18 cl ...
: 1978
International
*
Olympic gold medal
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** Summer Olympic Games
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: 1972
*
Olympic silver medal
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: 1976
*
FIFA World Cup
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third place: 1974
Individual
* Polish Football Player of the Year: 1975 (Sport editors plebiscite "Golden Shoe")
References
External links
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Poland Appearances
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Living people
1951 births
People from Tomaszów Mazowiecki
Sportspeople from Łódź Voivodeship
Association football fullbacks
Polish footballers
Wisła Kraków players
Club Brugge KV players
Belgian Pro League players
1974 FIFA World Cup players
1978 FIFA World Cup players
Poland international footballers
Footballers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers of Poland
Olympic gold medalists for Poland
Olympic silver medalists for Poland
Polish football managers
MKS Cracovia managers
Olympic medalists in football
Gwardia Warsaw players
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Przebój Wolbrom managers
Ekstraklasa players