Full name Alfred Tomasz Olek Name Alfred Olek Position Midfielder Years Team Height 1.72 m | Playing position Died March 10, 2007 Role Footballer | |
Date of birth (1940-07-23)23 July 1940 Date of death 10 March 2007(2007-03-10) (aged 66) | ||
Place of birth Swietochlowice, Poland | ||
Alfred Tomasz Olek (23 July 1940 – 10 March 2007), was a Polish footballer, who played for Górnik Zabrze, Scottish club Hamilton Academical and once for the Poland national team.
Olek was one of three Polish international players who moved to Hamilton in 1971, the others being Roman Strazalkowski and goalkeeper Witold Szygula. A contemporary report in The Herald newspaper described it as "one of the strangest transfer deals recorded in Scottish football". The deal was arranged by the Hamilton chairman, Jan Stepek, who was a Polish businessman. Alan Dick, who was the Hamilton club secretary at the time, later reflected that the three players did not stay for very long because they were "clearly too good for us".
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