Marian Fontowicz (13 July 1907 in

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John ...

– 20 November 1988) was a Polish

goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...

. In club football, he played for

Warta Poznań Warta Poznań () is a multi-sports club based in Poznań, Poland. The name means ''the Guard'' in Polish and also the name of the river Warta on which Poznań is located. Founded in 1912, the association football club are two-time winners of the ...

from 1923 to 1938.

National team career

For the first time he was called up to the national team for the match with

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, played on 1 July 1928 in

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(2:1), he was then only a backup fo
Stefan Kisieliński
He played 8 international friendly matches from 1930 to 1935, where he conceded 23 goals. He conceded 5 goals two times.Marian Fontowicz
/ref> Fontowicz conceded 1 goal to a

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in a match against

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(lost by 2:5) on 9 September 1934. He made his international debut on 28 September 1930 in a match against Sweden. His last international play was on 12 May 1935 against

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. He played backup goalkeeper for the Polish Olympic team at the

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Club career

He joined the

football club at the age of 15. He made his debut on the first team in 1924, and made his debut in the championship on 29 March 1925 with a home match against TKS Toruń. He made his debut in the league on 3 April 1927 in a match against the Black Lions in

. His final game was on 24 April 1938 in the away game against

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. He has spent his entire career at Warta Poznań, playing 578 matches for the team. Warta fans called him "King of the foreground". In 1929 he won the title of Polish champion.

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