Tuesday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Górski, who led the national team during its glory days in the 1970s and is widely remembered as the most successful and most respected coach in Polish football history.
Kazimierz Górski (front) and former Poland players Jerzy Gorgoń, Jan Domarski and Jan Tomaszewski; Oct. 18, 1973. Photo: PAP/PA Archive
Polish President Andrzej Duda at midday laid a wreath on Górski's grave at the Powązki cemetery in Warsaw.
"Poland needed success and he made it happen," Duda said of Górski.
"Under his wing, the team achieved real victories," the president added.
In another tribute, officials led by Deputy Prime Minister Piotr Gliński opened an exhibition about Górski and his legacy at the Polish capital's Sports Museum in the early afternoon.
Górski was born on March 2, 1921 in the then-Polish city of Lwów, now Lviv in Ukraine. He managed the national team from 1970 to 1976.
He was in charge when Poland won gold during the 1972 Olympics in Munich, when they finished third in the 1974 World Cup in West Germany, and when they grabbed silver in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal.
⚽ 100 lat temu, 2 marca 1921 r., przyszedł na świat Kazimierz Górski - człowiek, który zmienił polską piłkę. ⚽...
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After 1976, Górski coached Panathinaikos and Olympiacos in Greece before returning to Poland to manage Legia Warsaw, where he had started out as a player.
After the fall of communism in 1989, he took charge of Poland's soccer association PZPN, which he headed from 1991 to 1995 and was then its honorary president until his death in Warsaw on May 23, 2006.
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Source: IAR, polskieradio24.pl
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