Włodzimierz Smolarek
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Włodzimierz Smolarek | ||
| Date of birth | 16 July 1957 | ||
| Place of birth | Aleksandrów Łódzki, Poland | ||
| Date of death | 7 March 2012 (aged 54) | ||
| Place of death | Aleksandrów Łódzki, Poland | ||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Włókniarz Aleksandrów Łódzki | |||
| 1973–1976 | Widzew Łódź | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1976–1977 | Widzew Łódź | 0 | (0) |
| 1978 | Legia Warsaw | 18 | (4) |
| 1979–1986 | Widzew Łódź | 181 | (61) |
| 1986–1988 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 63 | (13) |
| 1988–1990 | Feyenoord | 43 | (12) |
| 1990–1996 | Utrecht | 150 | (33) |
| Total | 455 | (123) | |
| National team | |||
| 1980–1992 | Poland | 60 | (13) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2000–2009 | Feyenoord (youth) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Włodzimierz Smolarek (16 July 1957 – 7 March 2012) was a Polish footballer who played as a striker.
He played most of his 20-year professional career with Widzew Łódź and Utrecht, appearing in more than 200 official games for the former. He amassed Eredivisie totals of 193 matches and 45 goals, over the course of eight seasons.
Smolarek represented Poland in two World Cup, gaining 60 caps.
Born in Aleksandrów Łódzki, Smolarek played for Widzew Łódź and Legia Warsaw in his country, winning the Ekstraklasa championship with the former in 1981 and 1982, as well as the 1985 Polish Cup. During four years of his spell at Widzew he shared teams with legendary Zbigniew Boniek, scoring one of his team's goals in a 2–3 away loss against Liverpool for the 1982–83 European Cup and helping them reach the semi-finals 4–3 on aggregate.
In 1986, aged 29, Smolarek was allowed to leave the Iron Curtain nation, starting with Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga where he won the German Cup in his second season, playing the full 90 minutes in the 1–0 win against VfL Bochum. He retired at 39 after eight years in the Netherlands, with Feyenoord and FC Utrecht, then went on to work with the first as youth coach for nearly one decade.
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