Tomasz Korynt (born 27 October 1954) is a Polish former footballer who played as a forward. He spent the start of his career with teams in the Tricity area, starting his career with Lechia Gdańsk, before later playing for Arka Gdynia and Bałtyk Gdynia. In his later career, he spent time in France playing for Limoges, and in Austria with First Vienna, Favoritner AC and USC Seitenstetten. He is the son of Polish international Roman Korynt.
 Korynt in 2009 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Tomasz Marek Korynt | ||
| Date of birth | 27 October 1954 | ||
| Place of birth | Gdynia, Poland | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –1972 | Lechia Gdańsk | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1972–1977 | Lechia Gdańsk | 102 | (33) |
| 1977–1982 | Arka Gdynia | 135 | (41) |
| 1982–1983 | Bałtyk Gdynia | 24 | (5) |
| 1984 | First Vienna | ||
| 1984–1986 | Limoges | 35 | (5) |
| 1987–1989 | Bałtyk Gdynia | 57 | (10) |
| 1989 | Favoritner AC | ||
| 1990–1991 | USC Seitenstetten | ||
| 1997–1999 | Orzeł Choczewo | ||
| 2004 | Orzeł Choczewo | ||
| Total | 353 | (94) | |
| International career | |||
| 1979 | Poland | 1 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Career
editLechia Gdańsk
editKorynt started his career with Lechia Gdańsk, firstly playing with the youth team before advancing to the first team in 1971. His Lechia debut came on 18 June 1972 against Gwardia Koszalin, playing the full 90 minutes and scored 2 goals.[1] In the first two seasons as part of the first team, Korynt failed to make a claim on a starting position playing only 6 times in that period. The season after Korynt started to make a greater impact on the first team, playing 16 times and scoring 6 goals.[2] The following two seasons after Lechia finished runners up in their league, firstly losing out by two points,[3] and the second time finishing behind arch rivals Arka Gdynia.[4] The following season Korynt had his greatest goalscoring season for Lechia, scoring 9 in the league in 23 games.[5] In total for Lechia Korynt played in 109 games scoring 36 goals.
Arka Gdynia
editFor the 1977–78 season, Korynt moved to Lechia's rivals Arka Gdynia to the dismay of Lechia fans.[6] He enjoyed his greatest success while at Arka, playing six seasons with the club, all in the top flight of Polish football. While Arka often finished lower to mid-table, they provided Korynt with his only chance of silverware during his career. In 1979 Arka won the Polish Cup by beating Wisła Kraków 2-1 in the final.[7] While he did not play for Arka in the cup final he played in both European games for Arka the following season against Beroe Stara Zagora, losing 4-3 over the two legs.[8] In 1982 Arka were relegated from the I liga.
Later years
editAfter Arka's relegation Korynt joined their city rivals Bałtyk Gdynia who were playing in the I liga. After spending 18 months with the team and playing 24 games scoring 5 goals, Korynt joined Austrian second division side First Vienna before moving to France joining second division team Limoges. After 3 seasons away Korynt returned to Bałtyk Gdynia in 1987, helping Bałtyk who were then in the II liga win promotion to the I liga by finishing runners up. Bałtyk were relegated after one season in the top division and finished the following season in 10th. He once again moved to Austria, firstly playing with Favoritner AC for one season, before playing for FC Seitenstetten over two seasons.[9]
After his time with Seitenstetten, Korynt retired from professional football. He later returned to playing for Orzeł Choczewo over the course of two spells, scoring 34 goals in the fourth tier for Orzeł during those two spells. After retiring from football after his spell with Seitenstetten, Korynt moved to working in business, while also having spells as a coach for KP Gdynia and the Bałtyk Gdynia youth.[10] In 2012, he was employed by Arka as a consultant alongside Janusz Kupcewicz.[11]
International career
editKorynt received one cap for Poland playing on 4 April 1979 against Hungary in a friendly. He came on as a substitute in the 74th minute.
Personal life
editHis father is Roman Korynt, a Lechia Gdańsk legend who played a total of 340 times for Lechia, the second highest amount for the club, and played 207 games for Lechia in the Ekstraklasa, the highest for a Lechia player. Other teams he played for are Gedania Gdańsk, OWKS Lublin and CWKS Warszawa. He received 32 caps for Poland.
Honours
editArka Gdynia
- Polish Cup: 1978–79[12]
References
edit- ^ "1971/72 III Liga - Gr. IV (północna)". lechia.net.
- ^ "1973/74 II Liga - Gr. północna". lechia.net.
- ^ "sezon 1974/75, II Liga - Gr. północna". hppn.pl.
- ^ "sezon 1975/76, II Liga - Gr. północna". hppn.pl.
- ^ "1976/77 III Liga - Gr. IV (północna)". lechia.net.
- ^ "Tomasz Korynt: Pisali, że trybuny śpiewały, a Korynt dyrygował..." arka.gdynia.pl.
- ^ "Puchar Polski 1979: Jedyny triumf Arki". polsatsport.pl.
- ^ "Tomasz Korynt wspomina: Nawet masażysta nie pomógł. (Gazeta Wyborcza)". arka.gdynia.pl.
- ^ "Korynt, Tomasz". national-football-teams.com.
- ^ "Tomasz Korynt". trojmiasto.pl.
- ^ bar06_12 (23 January 2012), Janusz Kupcewicz i Tomasz Korynt będą współpracować z Arką (in Polish), 90minut.pl
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Tomasz Korynt". 90minut.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 1 October 2024.