Henryk Czapczyk
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Henryk Czapczyk (27 August 1922 – 30 August 2010[1]) was a Polish footballer who played as a striker.
Czapczyk was born at Poznań and started his football career at HCP Poznań. During World War II, he was a Home Army soldier, eventually reaching the rank of lieutenant. He commanded an assault unit during the Warsaw Uprising; after its fall, he was imprisoned in several German camps, before being liberated in May 1945.[2]
He returned to Poland in 1946 to continue his football career. That year, as Warta's captain, he led the team to a second-place finish in the championship and the national title the following year.[2] In 1949, he joined Lech Poznań, where he remained until his retirement in 1953.[3]
Honours
Player
Warta Poznań
Manager
Lech Poznań
- II liga North: 1960[4]
Orders
- Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari
- Cross of Valour (twice)
- Cross of Merit with Swords
- Cross of the Home Army
- Partisan Cross
- Army Medal
- Victory and Freedom of 1945 Medal
- Grunwald Badge
References
- 1922 births
- 2010 deaths
- Footballers from Poznań
- Men's association football forwards
- Polish men's footballers
- Warta Poznań players
- Lech Poznań players
- Ekstraklasa players
- Polish football managers
- Lech Poznań managers
- Ekstraklasa managers
- I liga managers
- Polish military personnel of World War II
- Home Army members
- Warsaw Uprising insurgents
- Recipients of the Cross of Merit with Swords (Poland)
- Recipients of the Cross of Valour (Poland)
- Recipients of the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari
- Recipients of the Armia Krajowa Cross
- Polish prisoners of war in World War II
- World War II prisoners of war held by Germany
- Polish prisoners of war
- 20th-century Polish sportsmen
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