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Full name
  
Janusz Antoni Kowalik

Playing position
  
Forward

1960–1967
  
Cracovia

Height
  
1.70 m

Years
  
Team

Role
  
Football player

Place of birth
  
Nowy Sacz, Poland

Name
  
Janusz Kowalik


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Date of birth
  
(1944-03-26) March 26, 1944 (age 71)

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Janusz "John" Kowalik (born 26 March 1944 in Nowy Sącz) was a Polish football (soccer) striker who scored prolifically in both the European leagues and the North American Soccer League. He was the 1968 NASL MVP.

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Janusz Kowalik A Moment of Brilliance From Amateur to MVP Janusz Kowalik and the

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Professional

Janusz Kowalik A Moment of Brilliance From Amateur to MVP Janusz Kowalik and the

In 1968, the owners of the Chicago Mustangs of the North American Soccer League (NASL) signed Kowalik. That season, he led the league in scoring with thirty goals in twenty-eight games. This led to his selection as the league MVP and a first team All Star. At the end of the season, he moved to the California Clippers. However, the NASL lost most of its teams with all west coast teams, but the Clippers, folding. The Clippers decided to leave the NASL, join a local league and exist on playing exhibition games against foreign teams. In January 1969, the team ownership decided to cease operations.

In 1969, Kowalik returned to Europe where he signed with Sparta Rotterdam of the Dutch Eredivisie. In 1974, he moved to NEC for one season.

Kowalik returned to the NASL with the Chicago Sting in 1975, where he played fourteen games, scoring nine goals in 1976. He then returned to the Netherlands to play with MVV Maastricht. In 1977, he returned to the Sting where he scored only one goal in an unknown number of games. He finished his career in the 1978–1979 season in the Netherlands with MVV.

National team

He was capped 6 times for the Polish national team.

Coach

Kowalik later coached Vitesse Arnhem, Górnik Zabrze and Rangers International of Enugu.

References

Janusz Kowalik Wikipedia


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