Wisła Płock Spółka Akcyjna, commonly referred to as Wisła Płock, is a Polish professional football club, based in Płock, Masovian Voivodeship, which plays in I liga, the second tier of the national football league system.
The Poland men's national football team represents Poland in men's international tournament football competitions since their first match in 1921.
Czernihów (Chernihiv) Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland from 1635 until Khmelnytsky Uprising in 1648. Also it was used as a fictitious title in the Commonwealth until the Partitions of Poland in 1772/1795. In 1635, Marcin Kalinowski was the first voivode (governor) of the Chernihiv Voivodeship.
Wincenty Konstanty Kalinowski, also known as Kastuś Kalinoŭski, was a writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary from the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania that was part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was one of the leaders of the failed Polish–Lithuanian Uprising of 1863.
Jan Tomaszewski is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the 1970s. He kept goal for the Poland national teams that came third at the 1974 World Cup, where he was named Best Goalkeeper, that won the silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and that competed at the 1978 World Cup. He is regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the history of Polish football. He was later a football commentator and politician.
Zygmunt, Zigmunt, Zigmund and spelling variations thereof are masculine given names and occasionally surnames. People so named include:
Zygmunt Józef Anczok is a former Polish footballer who played as a left-sided defender, who was an Olympic champion for Poland in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Brazil v Poland was a football match held during the 1938 FIFA World Cup in France and still remembered by many Polish fans as Poland's first ever FIFA World Cup match. It is also Brazil's highest-scoring match in a FIFA World Cup tournament. The match held the record for highest-scoring World Cup match until 1954, when Austria beat Switzerland 7–5.
Łukasz Marek Fabiański is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club West Ham United. He also played for the Poland national team, until his retirement from international duties in 2021.
FKS Stal Mielec is a Polish football club based in Mielec, Poland. The club was established on April 10, 1939. Historically, the club has enjoyed great successes within Poland's Ekstraklasa, winning the title twice but had undergone significant management changes and financial difficulties within the past two decades, which forced the club from participation in the Poland's top league. After winning the third-tier II liga title in 2016, Stal Mielec was promoted to I liga. After finishing first in I liga in 2020, Stal Mielec was promoted to the Ekstraklasa for the first time since the 1995–96 season.
Jarosław Kalinowski is a Polish politician from the agrarian Polish People's Party (PSL).
The Battle of Batih. Was a battle of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Near the site of the present-day Ladyzhyn in Ukraine, a forces of the Zaporozhian Cossacks and Crimean Tatars under the command of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky attacked and defeated the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’s forces and two days later all of the Polish prisoners were slain in the Batih massacre.
Zygmunt Paweł Maszczyk is a retired Polish football player.
Silesia national football team, also known as Upper Silesia, Upper Silesia, Poland, Polish Silesia or Polish Upper Silesia is an informal regional football team made up of players from football clubs located in Silesia, under the auspices of the Silesian Football Association. It is not affiliated to FIFA, and does not play in official international matches.
Ludovic Joseph Obraniak is a football manager and former professional footballer. He primarily played as an attacking midfielder. Born in France, he played for the Poland national team. He was appointed to his first head coach position, with French Championnat National 3 side Le Touquet in June 2021.
Kalinowski is a surname which is most frequent in north-eastern Poland. It comes from place names such as Kalinowa, Kalinowo, and Kalinów, which are derived from the word kalina ("Viburnum"). It is related to the following surnames in other languages:
Hubert Jerzy Kostka is a retired Polish football goalkeeper. Kostka participated in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, where Poland won the men's football tournament. Kostka is not only a successful player, he also was a manager and graduated as a mining engineer from the Silesian Polytechnic in Gliwice.
Zygmunt Kukla was a Polish footballer. During his club career he played for Stal Mielec and Apollon Athens.
Wojciech Tomasz Szczęsny is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Juventus and the Poland national team.
Krzysztof "Krys" Sobieski is a retired Polish football (soccer) goalkeeper who played professionally in Poland and the United States, including ten seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He spent five seasons as the goalkeeper coach with the Dallas Burn of Major League Soccer.
