peoplepill id: leonard-piontek
LP
Germany Poland
2 views today
2 views this week
Leonard Piontek
Polish footballer

Leonard Piontek

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
Polish footballer
Work field
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Chorzów, Poland
Place of death
Chorzów, Poland
Age
53 years
Sports Teams
Poland national football team
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Leonard Franciszek Piątek (born Leonard Franz Piontek, 13 October 1913 in Królewska Huta – 1 July 1967 in Chorzów) was a Polish footballer who played as a forward in the interwar period. His son is Sepp Piontek, who coached the famous Danish Dynamite team.

A hard-working and ambitious forward, Piontek was the top scorer for Polish first division vice-champions AKS Chorzów in 1937 and went on to lead the league the following season with 21 goals.

He represented the Polish national side on 16 occasions between 1937 and 1939, scoring 11 goals. He scored twice in Poland's 4–0 win over Yugoslavia in a World Cup qualifier and took part in the legendary 1938 FIFA World Cup match against Brazil in (Strasbourg, France on 5 June 1938, which Brazil won 6–5. Piontek also scored a goal in the last international match played in Poland before the outbreak of World War II, a 4–2 victory over Hungary on 27 August 1939.

Piontek signed the Volksliste (German Nationality List) after the Nazi invasion of Poland which allowed him to continue his footballing career. His club AKS Chorzów was now playing as Germania Königshütte and with Piontek as their key player the team dominated the first division Gauliga Schlesien – part of the German football league system – throughout the early 1940s far outperforming state-supported rivals 1. FC Katowice.

After World War II, Piontek had changed his last name to Piątek (a Polonized version). He played at AKS Chorzów until the end of the 1947–season, and moved to Pogoń Katowice, where he played from 1947 until 1950.

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Leonard Piontek is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Credits
References and sources
Leonard Piontek
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes