| Janusz Kowalik | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Janusz Antoni Kowalik | |
| Date of birth | ||
| Place of birth | Nowy Sącz, Poland | |
| Playing position | Forward | |
| Senior career1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1954–1967 1968 1968 1969–1974 1974–1975 1976 1976–1977 1977 1978–1979 |
Cracovia Chicago Mustangs California Clippers Sparta Rotterdam NEC Chicago Sting MVV Chicago Sting MVV |
28 (30) 123 (67) 25 (5) 14 (9) ? (2) 24 (6) ? (1) |
| National team | ||
| 1965–1966 | Poland | 6 (0) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 1992 | Górnik Zabrze | |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Janusz "John" Kowalik (born 26 March 1944 in Nowy Sącz) was a Polish soccer forward who scored prolifically in both the European leagues and the North American Soccer League. He was the 1968 NASL MVP.
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. 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 and Kowalik returned to Europe where he signed with Sparta Rotterdam of the Dutch Eredivisie. In 1974, he moved to NEC for one season before returning to the NASL with the Chicago Sting in 1975. Kowalik 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[1] before finishing his career in Holland with Maastricht in the 1978–1979 season.
National team
He was capped 6 times for the Polish national team.
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