Wenceslas Mihal Kuhar ( Polish: Wacław Michał Kuchar ; September 16, 1897 , Lancut - February 13, 1981 , Warsaw ) - Polish footballer , hockey player ( ice hockey ), track and field athlete and skater .
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| Full name | Vaclav Michal Kuhar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nicknames | Wacek ( Polish Wacek ), Professor ( Polish Profesor ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | September 16, 1897 Lancut , Galicia and Lodomeria , Cisleitania , Austria-Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | February 13, 1981 (83 years old) Warsaw , Poland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  Poland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 168 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | forward , midfielder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As part of the Polish football team, he participated in the 1924 Olympic Games , as a member of the hockey team of Poland, he became vice-champion of Europe in 1929 .
Content
- 1 Sports career
- 1.1 Football
- 1.2 Other sports
- 2 Military career
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Sports career
Soccer
It is considered the first superstar of Polish football [1] [2] . He played for Pogon ( Lviv ), from 1912 to 1935 he played 1052 matches for the team, in which he scored 1065 times [3] . In the championship of Poland - 198 matches, 98 goals. In the seasons of 1922 and 1926 he became the top scorer of the championship [3] . 4 times won the Polish Championship as part of the “Pursuit” [1] .
In the Polish national team he debuted on December 18, 1921 in Budapest, in a friendly game with the national team of Hungary . This was the first match of the Polish national team in history, the team lost 0-1 [4] . He took part in the football tournament of the Olympics of 1924 , in the only match the Poles lost the national team of Hungary 0: 5 [5] . In total, he played 23 official and 3 unofficial matches for the Polish national team, scored 5 goals, in 14 games he was the team captain [6] .
After the accession of Western Ukraine to the USSR, he trained the Dynamo Lviv [7] . Then he moved to Poland , coached “ Polonia ” ( Bytom ), “ Legia ” (1949-1953) and “ Polonia ” ( Warsaw ) (1954-1957) [6] . In the period from 1947 to 1949 he headed the national team of Poland [3] .
Other sports
He played in various athletics disciplines, was the repeated champion of Poland in 800 meters smooth running , 110 and 400 meters hurdling , high and triple jumps , as well as athletics decathlon [8] . He set records in Poland in a smooth run at 800 and 110 meters with barriers, high jump and decathlon [6] . In 1920, the result shown to him at a distance of 800 meters was sufficient for qualification for the VII Olympic Games in Antwerp , but Poland did not take part in them because of the Soviet-Polish war [9] .
In the period from 1922 to 1929 he became the 22-time champion of Poland in speed skating . At the European Championships of 1925, he took 7th place [3] .
In 1933, as part of the Chase , he won the Polish ice hockey championship [2] . He played for the Polish national team , with which he took 2nd place at the 1929 European Championship [1] .
In 1926 he was named the best athlete of the year in Poland [1] . Kuhar became the first owner of this honorary title [9] .
Military career
Officer of the Polish Army , resigned as captain . He participated in the defense of Lviv from ZUNR troops, then - in the Soviet-Polish war [1] . He was awarded the cross of the Brave , the cross of the Defense of Lviv , the Orlyat medal [3] . He was a gentleman and officer of the Order of the Renaissance of Poland [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Savin A.V. World football: who is who 2011: a complete encyclopedia. - M .: Eksmo, 2011 .-- S. 366. - ISBN 978-5-699-46575-0 .
- ↑ 1 2 Paweł Pudełko. Wacław Kuchar - sportowy człowiek renesansu (Polish) . Hokej . SportoweFakty.pl (January 20, 2010). Date of treatment April 28, 2013. Archived on April 28, 2013.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Wacław Kuchar (Polish) . Osobowości. Date of treatment July 8, 2012. Archived July 8, 2012. (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Hungary national football team v Poland, December 18, 1921 . eu-football.info. Date of treatment April 28, 2013. Archived on April 28, 2013.
- ↑ Macario Reyes. Football Tournament 1924 Olympiad RSSSF (June 26, 2008). Date of treatment April 28, 2013. Archived on April 28, 2013.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Kuchar Wacław Michał (1897-1981) (Polish) (unavailable link) . Polski Komitet Olimpijski. Date of treatment April 28, 2013. Archived July 27, 2009.
- ↑ Kuhar Wenceslas . UkrSoccerHistory.Com. Date of treatment April 28, 2013. Archived on April 28, 2013.
- ↑ Henryk Kurzyński, Stefan Pietkiewicz, Janusz Rozum, Tadeusz Wołejko. Historia Finałów Lekkoatletycznych Mistrzostw Polski 1920-2007. Konkurencje męskie. - Szczecin - Warszawa: Komisja Statystyczna PZLA, 2008 .-- S. 335. - ISBN 978-83-61233-20-6 .
- ↑ 1 2 Ryan Hubbard. The multi-talented mr Kuchar . IBWM (September 24, 2012). Date of treatment April 29, 2013. Archived April 29, 2013.
Links
- Profile on FIFA.com
- Profile at weltfussball.de (German)
- Profile on FootballDatabase.eu (fr.)
- Vaclav Kuhar - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com