Henryk Jaźnicki (6 September 1917 – 25 February 2004) was a Polish
football
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player, forward representing
Polonia Warsaw and Poland national team.
Jaźnicki played in only one international friendly, without scoring a goal. His only match occurred on 27 August 1939 in
Warsaw, versus
Hungary (4–2). However he did not finish the game, he was replaced in the 31st minute by
Stanisław Baran
Stanisław Franciszek Baran (26 April 1920 – 12 May 1993) was an interwar Polish football player, who started his career in Resovia Rzeszów, then, sometime in 1938 (at the age of around 18) moved to Warszawianka Warszawa. Regarded as one of ...
.
After the
Second World War, Jaźnicki returned to Polonia, where he continued his career until 1952. He not only excelled in football - he also played
volleyball (3 times champion of Poland),
basketball (in 1947 champion of Poland) and
handball
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(in 1947 vice-champion of Poland). During the war, he fought in the
Polish September Campaign, was caught by the Germans, was a prisoner of notorious
Pawiak prison in Warsaw, and was later shuttled to
Sachsenhausen and
Mauthausen.
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The last game: 27 August 1939. Poland - Hungary 4-2
1917 births
2004 deaths
Poland men's international footballers
Polish footballers
Polish men's basketball players
Polish men's volleyball players
Polish male handball players
Polonia Warsaw players
Polish military personnel of World War II
Sachsenhausen concentration camp survivors
Mauthausen concentration camp survivors
People from Radzyń Podlaski
Sportspeople from Lublin Voivodeship
Men's association football forwards
20th-century Polish men
Polonia Warszawa (basketball) players
Polish prisoners of war in World War II
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