Kazimierz Deyna

Deyna was top quality. Unfortunately the players we had at that time were not on the same level so we never got to see Deyna make as big an impression as he could of. The game against Forest he ran the show.

I also remember Dragoslav Stepanovic, he always had a word for the ref even though he did not speak much English. I think he went on to manage in Germany, can anyone confirm?
 
Kaziu was a class act, yes we got him at the wrong end of his career but some things a top player just doesn't lose, technique and vision among them. I remember a winner he scored at Elland Rd, shimmied inside a defender onto his right foot 20yds out, a quick look up then with hardly any backlift he planted the ball low to the keepers right just inside the post, not unlike Ali B's goal at Hillsborough when we won 6-2.
 
As my username suggests he was one of my first heroes. (I missed out on Colin bell by a couple of years thanks to that t**t Buchan).

I remember being at the forest game with me dad and he turned to me and said "we'll have to be special to get one past him (shilton) today".

Two minutes later , BANG, he scores.

A top man. R.I.P

(great topic by the way)
 
Remember him as one of the best passers of a long ball I have seen.Also scored some goals with great control in tight spaces.But its true he was well past his best when he arrived at City.

The management soon worked out he wasnt fit enough to play in midfield in the first division.

Think Kaz enjoyed his time in Manchester a bit too much.After the strict regime of being in the Polish army -Manchester was a fun place to be!!
 
That goal against Forest was one of the best I saw at Maine Road,fantastic control and finishing in the eighteen yard box.
It's true he was in the twighlight of his career,but if he had been in his prime would we have money to sign him?.
We saw the best Polish player of his generation,who unfortunately because of the communist regime was unable to play in a league that suited his talents until nearly too late.
 
Watching merlin weave his magic got me thinking
about Kazimierz,the closest city player to David i have seen
in a blue shirt

from 5.30 testamonial for Legia Warsaw against City

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCg1oeKuIwQ&feature=related[/youtube]


By the time 'Kazzy' Deyna arrived in Manchester in November 1978 he was already a hugely experienced player. He'd previously played for Poland in both the 1972 Olympic Games and the 1974 World Cup (not to mention being the holder of 105 caps and the scorer of 45 international goals), had won Poland's Player of the Year trophy three times and had scored more than 140 goals in nearly 400 games for Legia Warsaw. After some careful negotiating by chairman Peter Swales and secretary Bernard Halford with the Polish military authorities (£110, 000 and some office equipment!), manager Tony Book was finally able to offer the cultured midfielder his debut in a 2-1 home defeat by Ipswich on November 25th. He played in 14/3 games of that 1978/79 season and maintained his goalscoring ratio, finishing on a high with six goals in the last five league games. He was injured in only the second game of the 1979/80 season at Middlesbrough, returning to action six games later and was immediately on the scoresheet again in a 2-1 win at Leeds. It was the first of three goals in four games for this most skilful of players. Other niggling injuries followed, making it a stop-start time for Deyna who'd end the season with six goals from 22/1 games in all competitions. With the arrival of new manager John Bond in October 1981, City's fortunes began to improve after the earlier disappointments of Tony Book and Malcolm Allison. Unfortunately Deyna did not fit into Bond's plans and he moved to NASL side San Diego Sockers for an undisclosed fee on 28th January 1981. His playing career at Maine Road took in a brief but enjoyable 38/5 games and 13 goals. He played a further four years in San Diego and after retiring from playing, stayed on in California to coach youngsters. He was just a month short of his 42nd birthday when he was tragically killed in a road accident in September 1989.
 
I was on HMS Active in 1983 and we went to San Diego and we played a game while we were there and Kazzy had someting to do with the coaching of their local soccer team, met him after the game and he was a Gentleman, chatting away about the good times he had at Maine Road. Avery nice man indeed.
Nobby_31
 
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