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Silesia national football team

Silesia national football team

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Silesia national football team (Polish: Reprezentacja Śląska w piłce nożnej), also known as Upper Silesia,[1] Upper Silesia, Poland,[2] Polish Silesia[3] or Polish Upper Silesia[4] is an informal regional football team made up of players from football clubs located in Silesia, under the auspices of the Silesian Football Association (Polish: Śląski Związek Piłki Nożnej). It is not affiliated to FIFA, and does not play in official international matches.

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Matches Silesia vs Poland[5]

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Matches Silesia vs other national football teams

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Other matches

31 August 1913 Galicia  1–2  Moravia and Silesia Kraków
Dąbrowski 7' Historia Wisły Kitler 35'
Strack 85'
Stadium: Park Gier Cracovii
Referee: Orest Dżułyński (Lviv)

Silesian dream team

Although Silesia was never independently affiliated with FIFA, it is a place of origin of many notable football players playing mostly for the Germany, Poland and Czech Republic national teams. In 2010, the following hypothetical "dream" Silesian team was presented of the current players of Silesian background:[7] Raphael Schäfer, Marek Jankulovski, Kamil Glik, Tomas Ujfalusi (born in Rýmařov, a town in Bruntál District in the Moravian-Silesian Region which is not in Silesia), Łukasz Piszczek, Adam Matuszczyk, Libor Sionko, Sebastian Tyrała, Lukas Podolski, Ireneusz Jeleń, Miroslav Klose.

Since then, other prominent Silesian players who have appeared for the full Poland team include Łukasz Skorupski, Tomasz Jodłowiec, Jakub Błaszczykowski, Piotr Ćwielong, Arkadiusz Milik and Artur Sobiech. Mario Lička, Tomáš Vaclík and Michal Papadopoulos have been capped by the Czech Republic.

Notable Players

Silesian footballers who represented FIFA national teams.

 Czech Republic

 East Germany

 Germany

 Poland

 United States

Women's internationals

 Czech Republic

 Poland


References

  1. Makosz, Jan Red (1935). "Polska Zachodnia, 1935, R. 10, nr 83". 4422 IV (in Polish): 7.
  2. Zabawski, Władysław Red; Korfanty, Wojciech (1873-1939) Red nacz (1924). "Polonia, 1924, R. 1, nr 72". 4421 IV (in Polish): 6.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. Zabawski, Władysław Red; Korfanty, Wojciech (1873-1939) Red nacz (1935). "Polonia, 1935, R. 12, nr 3753". 4421 IV (in Polish): 4.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. Zabawski, Władysław Red; Korfanty, Wojciech (1873-1939) Red nacz (1927). "Polonia, 1927, R. 4, nr 119" (in Polish): 5. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. Paweł Czado, "Jak Górny Śląsk grał z reprezentacją Polski" (How Upper Silesia played against the Polish national team), Gazeta Wyborcza, 2006-12-06, (in Polish)
  6. "Baskowie zwyciezaja Slask 4:3". Przeglad Sportowy, 10/6/1937. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  7. Konrad Kostorz, "Reprezentacja Śląska silniejsza od Polski?" (Is the Silesia team stronger than Poland?), Sportowe Fakty, 2010-08-04 (in Polish)

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