Janusz Kowalik

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Janusz Kowalik
Personal information
Full nameJanusz Antoni Kowalik
Date of birth (1944-03-26) March 26, 1944
Place of birthNowy Sącz, Poland
Playing positionStriker
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1960–1967Cracovia
1968Chicago Mustangs28(30)
1968California Clippers0(0)
1969–1974Sparta Rotterdam123(67)
1974–1976NEC31(6)
1976Chicago Sting14(9)
1976–1977MVV9(2)
1977Chicago Sting6(1)
1977–1979MVV55(24)
National team
1965–1966Poland6(0)
Teams managed
1979–1980Patro Eisden
1982–1984Genk
1985–1986Vitesse
1992Górnik Zabrze
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

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.

Player

Professional

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.[1] 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.[2] 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, Górnik Zabrze and Rangers International of Enugu.

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