Erwin Wilczek
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Erwin Feliks Wilczek | ||
Date of birth | 20 November 1940 | ||
Place of birth | Antonienhütte, Silesia, Prussia, Germany (now Wirek, Poland) | ||
Date of death | 30 November 2021 | (aged 81)||
Position(s) | Midfielder, forward | ||
Youth career | |||
1950–1954 | Wawel Wirek | ||
1954–1958 | Zryw Chorzów | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1959–1972 | Górnik Zabrze | ||
1973–1975 | Valenciennes | 70 | (43) |
National team | |||
1961–1969 | Poland | 16 | (2) |
Teams managed | |||
1975–1977 | Valenciennes (scout) | ||
1977–1979 | Valenciennes II | ||
1979–1982 | Valenciennes | ||
1983–1987 | AS Sogara | ||
1989–1991 | AS Sogara | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Erwin Wilczek (20 November 1940 – 30 November 2021) was a Polish professional footballer who is most famous for his 1960s performances in both Górnik Zabrze and the Poland national team. He started as a forward, after some time he was moved to midfield.[1]
Career[]
Wilczek was born in Wirek, a district of Ruda Śląska. He began his career with local team . In 1954 he moved to and in 1959 to Górnik Zabrze, where he stayed until 1973. Wilczek played in 293 Ekstraklasa games as well as in 101 games of various competitions (Cup of Poland, European Cups). In the Polish League he scored 96 goals, together with Gornik he was nine times champion of Poland (1959, 1961, 1963–1967, 1971, 1972), won Cup of Poland six times (1965, 1968–1972), and in 1970 reached final game of UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
Between 1961 and 1969 he was capped 16 times for the Poland national team, scoring two goals.[2] In 1973 Wilczek moved to France, where he played for US Valenciennes, becoming the top scorer of the French Second Division.
After retiring he became scout, then B coach and finally manager of Valenciennes. In the 1980s he worked in Africa, among others for the team AS Sogara from Gabon.[3]
References[]
- ^ Nie żyje Erwin Wilczek, piłkarz złotej ery Górnika Zabrze. Miał 81 lat (in Polish)
- ^ "Kadra.pl". Archived from the original on 6 March 2008. Retrieved 2 May 2008.
- ^ Footballdatabase
Barreaud, Marc (1998). Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997). L'Harmattan, Paris. ISBN 2-7384-6608-7.
- 1940 births
- 2021 deaths
- People from the Province of Upper Silesia
- Sportspeople from Ruda Śląska
- Polish footballers
- Association football forwards
- Poland international footballers
- Górnik Zabrze players
- Valenciennes FC players
- Ekstraklasa players
- Ligue 1 players
- Ligue 2 players
- Polish football managers
- Valenciennes FC managers
- Polish expatriate footballers
- Polish expatriate football managers
- Polish expatriate sportspeople in France
- Expatriate footballers in France
- Expatriate football managers in France
- Expatriate football managers in Gabon
- Polish football forward stubs