Club career

Despite being from Gdańsk, he started his career at the two Olsztyn clubs: Warmia and Stomil,^[9][1][5] having gone through the youth teams at the former.^[3]

He then returned to his native Gdańsk and spent 8 seasons at Arka Gdynia having arrived there in 1974.^[5] The following season, 1975–76, he was the Second Division's top scorer.^[5] With Arka he achieved a historic club first Polish Cup^[6] in 1979.^[5] This success, along with his national team exploits, earned him a transfer to Lech Poznań,^[5] where he also won a historic national title^[6] in 1983.^[5][11]

He then moved abroad to France to play for AS Saint-Etienne,^[9][1][4] with the transfer fee raised privately to the sum of €380 000.^[12] He stayed there for 2 seasons (1983–1985), however they were relegated from the Premier Division in 1984.^[5] He spent the 1985–86 season^[5] at Greek club Larissa.^[9][1][4] However his time abroad was plagued by injuries.^[12]

He returned to his hometown and joined Lechia^[9][1][4] where he stayed for the next two seasons.^[5] This caused controversies given his links and allegiance to bitter derby rivals Arka.^[12] He suffered relegation with Lechia in 1989.^[5]

He finished his playing career at Turkish club Adanaspor.^[9]

International career

In his career he earned overall 20 caps for the Poland national team, scoring 5 goals.^[1][13] He made his national debut in 1976.^[10] He was at the 1978 tournament as a reserve player, but by the 1982 World Cup he was a key member of the squad, with Poland finishing in third place.^[7] The third place was won thanks to his famous winning goal against France to make it 3–2.^[3][6]

Managerial career

After retiring from playing, he became the manager of the Poland national futsal team in the early 90s.^[8][11] He then went on to coach the then sixth division Pomeranian club Radunia Stężyca^[10][9] between 1996 and 1999,^[14] the Polish U-21 team as assistant manager 1999–2001,^[11] briefly Lechia Gdańsk in 1995,^[11] and between 2004 and 2005 lower league Cartusia Kartuzy.^[15] He was also a consultant at Arka Gdynia between 2001 and 2003.^[9] He returned to Arka as a consultant once more in 2012, alongside Tomasz Korynt.^[16]

Teaching career

He taught PE at primary school number 10 in the Chylonia district of Gdynia.^{[10][12][11][when?]}

Political career

He was a Gdynia City Council candidate on the Civic Platform electoral list in 2006 and a Sejm candidate in 2007.^[17][18] Then, having switched to the Polish People's Party, he ran as a candidate for the Pomeranian Voivodeship Assembly in 2010 and to the lower house of parliament in 2011.^[17][18] In 2014, he became a regional councillor, his only electoral success.^[17][18] In 2015 and 2019, he unsuccessfully ran for the Sejm again.^[17][18] In 2018 he did not renew his councillor seat mandate.^[18]