1974, Murrhardt village, Stuttgart area, hotel where Polish representation is stationed. To coach. Kazimierz Górski There's an unannounced guest coming in. This is the older Polonus. The face of a alien seems familiar, only the mountainous associate it as if much younger.
Then a alien introduces himself: – Wilimowski I am.
For the selector of that time, everything became clear. He went back 40 years. He grew up in Lviv, where as a teenager he watched all game of Pogoni there. erstwhile the celebrated came The large Hajduka Movement He admired the virtuoso game of Ernest Wilmowski, who was his football idol.
They had a fewer words and Mr. Kazimierz was asked to come to the phone. erstwhile Wilmowski returned, he left only a rapidly deleted note in German: “I wanted to meet you. You're loud now. Let the Polish squad succeed. Don't mention me wrong. E. W.’
So much for admission. After the war everything was done to To erase Wilmowski from the annals of Polish sport. Most of my life I besides thought that Wilimowski was a Polish traitor who replaced the white eagle with the black 1 and became a proverbial “hitler son”. No, for the same blood flowed in Ernest as in Goeth or Wagner. His parent was German, and his father was most likely a German soldier who fell on the large Free Front. In 1929 his parent married Roman Wilmowski, a Polish authoritative and veteran of the Silesian Uprising, who soned small Ernst and gave him his name. He besides took care of his education. Young Ernest started his football career in junior teams Erster Fußball-Club Kattowitz. In 1934 he moved to the legendary Hajduki Wielki Movement, which in pre-war years dominated the Polish league. The football player was amazing. He's been sneaking out of the loop. As early as the first period after reaching the Movement team, they easy robbed the championship title. By the time the war broke out, they captured it 5 times. besides in the same year he made his debut in the Polish team, moving for the turf of the Copenhagen stadium in a match against Denmark lost 4 to 2. Match Brazil – Poland ( 6:5) at the 1938 planet Championships was the debut of Poland's representation at the planet Championships. In this meeting, Wilimowski scored Brazil 4 bare His evidence of specified a number of goals in 1 gathering was not beaten for nearly sixty years. (It was only Oleg Salenko who did this during the match Russia – Cameroon at the U.S.M. 94.) He never peculiarly considered himself Polish or German. He was angry erstwhile his name was denatured or his name was written by a double “L”. He always claimed to be local, always identified as advanced Silesian. Wartime has not only guided his destiny in this way but not in another way. Instead of hanging dogs on his individual or depriving him of worship and faith, 1 should alternatively think profoundly and sincerely thank Wilimowski for the beautiful game for Polish representation ...
Piotr Florczyk