Ernest Pohl (3 November 1932 – 12 September 1995), a.k.a. Ernst Pol, was a Polish

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who played as a striker. With 186 goals, he is the Polish top division's record goalscorer.

Career

Pohl scored 39 goals in 46 international matches for

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and to this day remains the most prolific

Ekstraklasa (; meaning "Extra Class" in Polish), officially known as PKO Bank Polski Ekstraklasa due to its Sponsor (commercial), sponsorship by PKO Bank Polski, is a professional association football league in Poland and the highest level of the Polish foo ...

. He played for Slavia Ruda Śląska, Orzeł Łódź between 1952 and 1953, CWKS Warsaw between 1953 and 1956 and

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between 1957 and 1967. During the

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, he scored five goals in a 6–1 win against

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. Following the fall of the

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and

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in 1990, he relocated to Germany, where his wife and daughters had moved earlier. In 2004, Górnik Zabrze's

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was named after him.

Career statistics

International

International goals

:''Scores and results list Poland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Pohl goal''.

Names

The

German surname Personal names in German-speaking Europe consist of one or several given names (''Vorname'', plural ''Vornamen'') and a surname (''Nachname, Familienname''). The ''Vorname'' is usually gender-specific. A name is usually cited in the "Name order, ...

of the Pohl family was changed to ''Pol'' in 1952 as a result of the

polonization Polonization or Polonisation ()In Polish historiography, particularly pre-WWII (e.g., L. Wasilewski. As noted in Смалянчук А. Ф. (Smalyanchuk 2001) Паміж краёвасцю і нацыянальнай ідэяй. Польскі ...

of names common in Communist Poland. After moving to Germany, he reverted to using his original name.

Honours

Legia Warsaw *

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...

Polish Cup The Polish Cup in Association football, football ( ) is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout football competition for Polish football club (association football), football clubs, held continuously since 1950, and is the second most i ...

: 1954–55, 1955–56 Górnik Zabrze * Ekstraklasa:

1957 Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricke ...

1959 Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the ...

1961 Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1961, Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and cons ...

, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67 * Polish Cup: 1964–65 Individual *

top scorer:

1954 Events January * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head ...

, 1963–64 * Ekstraklasa Hall of Fame: 2024

References

External links

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1932 births 1995 deaths Footballers from Ruda Śląska Polish people of German descent Men's association football forwards Polish men's footballers Poland men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Poland Footballers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Legia Warsaw players Górnik Zabrze players Ekstraklasa players Polish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Polish expatriate sportspeople in the United States Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta 20th-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-footy-forward-1930s-stub