Robert Gadocha (born 10 January 1946) is a Polish former professional footballer as a left winger.
.jpg) Gadocha in 1973 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 10 January 1946 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kraków, Poland | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Left winger | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1957–1965 | Garbarnia Kraków | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1965–1966 | Wawel Kraków | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1966–1975 | Legia Warsaw | 206 | (72) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1975–1977 | Nantes | 45 | (8) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1978 | Chicago Sting | 12 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1980–1981 | Hartford Hellions (indoor) | 21 | (14) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1967–1975 | Poland | 62 | (16) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Gadocha, who started his career in Garbarnia Kraków. later also played for FC Nantes, and briefly in the United States for Chicago Sting, his last professional team. His departure to France happened when he was 29. In Poland it was forbidden for a long time to departure abroad to play football. He was the first Polish player to get a legal permission to move abroad to play football.[[1]] [[2]]
He was a member of the Poland national team that won the gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, as well as a member of the team that finished third in the 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany. He has a total of 16 goals in 62 games with the Poland national team.[1]
Gadocha holds the record for the most assists in a single match in World Cup finals history, alongside Giovanni Ferrari, assisting four goals in his team's 7–0 victory against Haiti in the group stage of the 1974 World Cup.[2][3]
In 1978, Gadocha moved to the Chicago Sting of the North American Soccer League. He also spent one season, 1980–81, with the Hartford Hellions of the Major Indoor Soccer League.
Career statistics
editInternational
edit| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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| Poland | 1967 | 3 | 0 |
| 1968 | 4 | 1 | |
| 1969 | 2 | 0 | |
| 1970 | 5 | 1 | |
| 1971 | 5 | 2 | |
| 1972 | 10 | 4 | |
| 1973 | 15 | 5 | |
| 1974 | 14 | 2 | |
| 1975 | 4 | 1 | |
| Total | 62 | 16 | |
Honours
editLegia Warsaw[4]
- Ekstraklasa: 1968–69, 1969–70
- Polish Cup: 1972–73
Nantes
Poland
Individual
References
edit- ^ Kadra.pl Archived 23 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Robert Gadocha stat". Opta. Retrieved 29 November 2022 – via Twitter.
- ^ "Poland vs. Haiti". globalsportsarchive.com. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Robert Gadocha". 90minut.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^ "Eric Batty's World XI – The Seventies". Beyond The Last Man. 7 November 2013. Archived from the original on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ "Sport 1974". Mundo Deportivo. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
External links
edit- Robert Gadocha at 90minut.pl (in Polish)
- NASL/MISL stats
- Robert Gadocha at National-Football-Teams.com
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