Ginter Gawlik (5 December 1930 – 22 August 2005) was a Polish

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. He spent most of career playing for Polish team

Górnik Zabrze Górnik Zabrze Spółka Akcyjna, commonly referred to as Górnik Zabrze S.A. or simply Górnik Zabrze (), is a Polish association football, football club from Zabrze. Górnik is one of the most successful Polish football clubs in history, winning ...

. Gawlik, who was not raised in Poland (until 1945, Zabrze, then called Hindenburg, belonged to Germany), started his career in the mid-1940s for the German team

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. After 1945, he played for

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and in 1950 he moved to Górnik Zabrze, a powerhouse of Polish football. While playing for Górnik, the team won 5 Polish football championships in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Also, he played for the Poland national team, scoring one goal in 7 games. His debut took place on 23 June 1957 in

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, when Poland beat the

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2–1.

Honours

Górnik Zabrze *

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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

References

1930 births 2005 deaths Footballers from Zabrze Men's association football defenders Men's association football midfielders Polish men's footballers Poland men's international footballers Górnik Zabrze players Ekstraklasa players Polish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's soccer players in Australia Polish expatriate sportspeople in Australia Polish football managers Expatriate soccer managers in Australia Men's association football player-managers 20th-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-footy-midfielder-1930s-stub