Maryan Wisniewski

{{Short description|French footballer (1937–2022)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Maryan Wisniewski

| image = Maryan Wisnieski (1970, FC Grenoble).jpg

| caption = Wisniewski with Grenoble in 1970

| full_name = Marian Wisniewski

| birth_date = {{birth date|1937|2|1|df=y}}

| birth_place = Calonne-Ricouart, France

| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|3|3|1937|2|1|df=y}}

| death_place = Carpentras, France

| height = 1.75 m{{cite news |url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/FootballFicheJoueur9347.html |title=Maryan Wisniewski |newspaper=L'Équipe |location=Paris |access-date=23 June 2022 |language=fr}}

| position = Striker

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = US Auchel

| years1 = 1953–1963

| clubs1 = Lens

| caps1 = 277

| goals1 = 93

| years2 = 1963–1964

| clubs2 = Sampdoria

| caps2 = 21

| goals2 = 4

| years3 = 1964–1966

| clubs3 = Saint-Étienne

| caps3 = 46

| goals3 = 12

| years4 = 1966–1969

| clubs4 = Sochaux

| caps4 = 86

| goals4 = 8

| years5 = 1969–1970

| clubs5 = Grenoble

| caps5 = 27

| goals5 = 4

| totalcaps = 457

| totalgoals = 121

| nationalyears1 = 1955–1963

| nationalteam1 = France

| nationalcaps1 = 33

| nationalgoals1 = 12

| medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{FRA}}}}

{{MedalCompetition|FIFA World Cup}}

{{Medal|3rd|1958|}}

}}

Marian Wisniewski (1 February 1937 – 3 March 2022), known as Maryan Wisniewski, was a French footballer who played as a forward.{{cite news|first=Didier |last=Braun |url=http://www.revues-plurielles.org/_uploads/pdf/8_1226_7.pdf |title=L'Équipe de France de football, c'est l'histoire en raccourci d'un siècle d'immigration |work=L'Équipe |location=France |accessdate=15 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113114313/http://www.revues-plurielles.org/_uploads/pdf/8_1226_7.pdf |archivedate=13 January 2012 }}

Life and career

Marian Wisniewski was born on 1 February 1937 in Calonne-Ricouart, Pas-de-Calais.{{cite web |url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/4190491/Deces_2022_M03.zip |title=Fichier des décès au mois de mars 2022 |trans-title=Death file for the month of March 2022 |publisher=INSEE |access-date=23 June 2022 |language=fr}} He earned 33 caps and scored 12 goals for the France national team, and played in the 1958 FIFA World Cup when France finished third. He made his international debut on 3 April 1955 at the age of 18 years, 2 months, and 2 days.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

Wisniewski died on 3 March 2022, at the age of 85, in Carpentras, Vaucluse. His grandnephew Jonathan Wisniewski is a former professional rugby union player.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}

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