Wladyslaw Soporek (born 10 December 1927 in

Grodzisk Mazowiecki Grodzisk Mazowiecki is a town in central Poland with 29,363 inhabitants (2011). It is 30 km. southwest of Warsaw. Between 1975 and 1998 it was situated in the Warszawa Voivodeship but since 1999 it has been situated in the Masovian Voivodesh ...

- died 25 October 1986 in

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) was a Polish

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player and coach. Soporek, whose first team was a local side TUR Grodzisk, spent the best years of his career in ŁKS Łódź, where he won the 1958 championship of Poland. A

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, he was the top scorer of the Ekstraklasa in the same year, with 18 goals. Apart from ŁKS (1953–1960), he also played for

Legia Warsaw Legia Warszawa (), commonly referred to as Legia Warsaw or simply Legia, is a professional football club based in Warsaw, Poland. Legia is the most successful Polish football club in history, winning record 15 Ekstraklasa champions titles, a ...

(1950–1952),

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(1949–1950), and finished active playing in Start Łódź (1961–1964). He twice capped for Poland, without scoring a goal.

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