Marian Wisniewski (1 February 1937 – 3 March 2022), known as Maryan Wisniewski, was a French

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who played as a

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Life and career

Marian Wisniewski was born on 1 February 1937 in

Calonne-Ricouart Calonne-Ricouart () is a Communes of France, commune in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography Calonne-Ricouart is an ex-coalmining town some southwest of Béthune and southwest of ...

, Pas-de-Calais. He earned 33 caps and scored 12 goals for the France national team, and played in the

1958 FIFA World Cup The 1958 FIFA World Cup was the sixth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in Sweden from 8 to 29 June 1958. It was the first FIFA World Cup to be played in a Nordic country. Brazil be ...

when France finished third. He made his international debut on 3 April 1955, thus becoming the youngest footballer to play for France at the age of 18 years and 2 months. Wisniewski died on 3 March 2022, at the age of 85, in

Carpentras Carpentras (, formerly ; Provençal Occitan: ''Carpentràs'' in classical norm or ''Carpentras'' in Mistralian norm; la, Carpentoracte) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. ...

, Vaucluse. His grandnephew

Jonathan Wisniewski Jonathan Wisniewski (born 16 July 1985) is a former French rugby union player who played as a fly-half. He is of Polish descent and is a grandnephew of Maryan Wisniewski. Club career Wisniewski started playing rugby at a youth level for Gaillac ...

is a former professional

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player.

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* 1937 births 2022 deaths Sportspeople from Pas-de-Calais French footballers Association football forwards RC Lens players U.C. Sampdoria players AS Saint-Étienne players FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players Grenoble Foot 38 players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Serie A players France international footballers 1958 FIFA World Cup players 1960 European Nations' Cup players French expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Italy French expatriate sportspeople in Italy French people of Polish descent Footballers from Hauts-de-France {{france-footy-forward-1930s-stub