The main successes of Polish football The first time he heard about the football world country on the Vistula just before the outbreak of World War II, when 5:6 match for the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1938. Poland was then typed on one of the World Cup favorites, but never took place due to the outbreak of war. Later on the successes, we had to wait another year. The biggest success was the club of course, come to the final matches of the UEFA Cup by Górnik Zabrze, who, after the famous wave coin defeated in the semi-final AS Rome. Then it is time to successful representation. At the World Championships in football in 1974, unexpectedly won a bronze medal. This was so unexpected, that the master is not in the tournament played in the best Polish player of the time - Włodzimierz lubański who has been injured. In his absence, the tournament was the king of shooters Grzegorz Lato. This success also told eight years later, in different compositions, among other things with Zbigniew Bońkiem.