Robert Gadocha

Robert Gadocha
	Gadocha in 1973
Personal information
Date of birth	10 January 1946 (age 78)
Place of birth	Kraków, Poland
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Left winger
Youth career
1957–1965	Garbarnia Kraków
Senior career*
Years	Team
1965–1966	Wawel Kraków
1966–1975	Legia Warsaw
1975–1977	Nantes
1978	Chicago Sting
1980–1981	Hartford Hellions (indoor)
International career
1967–1975	Poland
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Poland
FIFA World Cup
Olympic Games
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Robert Gadocha (born 10 January 1946) is a Polish former professional footballer as a left winger.

Gadocha, who started his career in Garbarnia Kraków. later also played for FC Nantes, and briefly in the United States for Chicago Sting, his last professional team. He was a member of the Poland national team that won the gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, as well as a member of the team that finished third in the 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany. He has a total of 16 goals in 62 games with the Poland national team.^[1]

Gadocha holds the record for the most assists in a single match in World Cup finals history, alongside Giovanni Ferrari, assisting four goals in his team's 7–0 victory against Haiti in the group stage of the 1974 World Cup.^[2]^[3]

In 1978, Gadocha moved to the Chicago Sting of the North American Soccer League. He also spent one season, 1980–81, with the Hartford Hellions of the Major Indoor Soccer League.

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Poland	1967	3	0
	1968	4	1
	1969	2	0
	1970	5	1
	1971	5	2
	1972	10	4
	1973	15	5
	1974	14	2
	1975	4	1
Total		62	16

Legia Warsaw^[4]

Nantes

Poland

^ Kadra.pl Archived 23 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Robert Gadocha stat". Opta. Retrieved 29 November 2022 – via Twitter.
^ "Poland vs. Haiti". globalsportsarchive.com. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Robert Gadocha". 90minut.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2 August 2024.