Ginter Gawlik (5 December 1930 – 22 August 2005) was a Polish
footballer
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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
Reichsbahn SV Borsigwerk
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. After 1945, he played for
Górnik Biskupice
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* Gornik, Pleven Province, a village in Cherven Bryag Municipality, Bulgaria
* April Gornik, an American painter
*Górnik (meaning "miner" in Polish) is a common name of Polish sports teams:
** Górnik Ko ...
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
Chorzów
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, when Poland beat the
Soviet Union
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2–1.
Honours
Górnik Zabrze
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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 ...
:
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
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