Ernest Pohl

Who was Ernest Pohl?

Ernest Pohl, aka Ernst Pol, was a Polish football player.

He was born in Ruda, Poland and died in Hausach, Germany.

Pohl scored 39 goals in 46 international matches for Poland national football team and to this day remains the most prolific Polish First Division scorer with 186 goals.

He played for Slavia Ruda Śląska, Orzeł Łódź between 1952 and 1953, Legia Warsaw between 1953 and 1955 and Górnik Zabrze between 1956 and 1967. During the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, he scored a rare 5 goals in a 6:1 win against Tunisia.

Following the fall of the Berlin wall and German reunification in 1990, he has been living in Germany, where his wife and daughters had moved earlier.

In, 2004 Górnik Zabrze's stadium is named after him.