 Młynarczyk in June 2005 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1953-09-20)20 September 1953 (age 72) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Nowa Sól, Poland | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Poland (goalkeeping coach) | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Astra Nowa Sól | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1971–1974 | Dozamet Nowa Sól | ||||||||||||||||
| 1974–1977 | BKS Stal | ||||||||||||||||
| 1977–1980 | Odra Opole | 87 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1980–1984 | Widzew Łódź | 79 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1984–1986 | Bastia | 56 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1986–1989 | Porto | 67 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1979–1986 | Poland | 42 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Józef Młynarczyk (born 20 September 1953) is a Polish former professionalfootballer who played as agoalkeeper. He currently serves as a goalkeeping coach of thePoland national team.
After representing three clubs in his homeland he played out the remainder of his career in France and Portugal, winning seven major titles withPorto during his one-and-a-half-season spell.
Młynarczyk played more than 40 times forPoland, appearing in twoWorld Cups with the country. In 1983, he was the winner of thePolish Footballer of the Year plebiscite organized by thePiłka Nożna football weekly.[1]
Born inNowa Sól, Młynarczyk arrived atWidzew Łódź in 1980 aged 27, after playing for three modest clubs. During his four-year spell, in which he was equally first and second-choice, the team won twoEkstraklasa titles, finishing second in the other two. In the1982–83 European Cup, he helped Widzew to the semifinals after edgingLiverpool in the last-eight (4–3 on aggregate).
In 1984, aged 31, Młynarczyk signed withSC Bastia in France. In January 1986 he switched countries again, joiningFC Porto from Portugal, where he won theEuropean Cup, theIntercontinental Cup and theUEFA Super Cup. After an interesting battle for first-choice status withZé Beto, he eventually became the starter – he was in goal for all of these finals – but lost his importance after the emergence of 18-year-oldVítor Baía, choosing to retire from football in June 1989.[2][3]
Młynarczyk started immediately working with Porto's goalkeepers after his retirement, a position he would also hold at former side Widzew Łódź. On 21 April 2008, he resigned after the latter side hiredJanusz Wójcik as manager.
Młynarczyk won 42caps forPoland during seven years, the first arriving in 1979 whilst in the ranks of lowlyOdra Opole. He participated – always as starter – with the national team in twoFIFA World Cups,1982 and1986, finishing in third place in the former edition and being ousted byBrazil in theround-of-16 in the latter.
Młynarczyk would also work as goalkeeping coach for the national team, before being replaced byJacek Kazimierski.
| National team | Year | Apps | Conceded goals | Clean sheets |
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| Poland | 1979 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1980 | 5 | 8 | 0 | |
| 1981 | 4 | 7 | 0 | |
| 1982 | 7 | 5 | 4 | |
| 1983 | 6 | 8 | 0 | |
| 1984 | 7 | 4 | 3 | |
| 1985 | 6 | 4 | 3 | |
| 1986 | 6 | 11 | 2 | |
| Total | 42 | 47 | 13 | |
Widzew Łódź[4]
Porto[4]
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