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Kazimierz Deyna
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blumoonrisen
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A class act, would be in my all time City team.
I met him when I was a kid and still got his signature.
His testimonial I think, he played 1 half for us the other for Warsaw, scored for both
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwuqOwrDIjs[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kacfxto0Bbg[/youtube]
There's a few decent clips on youtube
I met him when I was a kid and still got his signature.
His testimonial I think, he played 1 half for us the other for Warsaw, scored for both
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwuqOwrDIjs[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kacfxto0Bbg[/youtube]
There's a few decent clips on youtube
Great post de niro ,what a player he was , there was a documentry on about him a couple of months ago on espn ,i am privileged to have seen him play at maine road my favourite player at city ever ,he was the best player at the world cup...
Bill
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deynaskaz said:Great post de niro ,what a player he was , there was a documentry on about him a couple of months ago on espn ,i am privileged to have seen him play at maine road my favourite player at city ever ,he was the best player at the world cup...
cheers, i loved him, class class act.
He was a great player, similar to Paul Lake in that he used to 'think faster' than his team mates. They were both brilliant at making everything look easy.
I remember standing on The Kop at Anfield (couldn't get tickets for our end) and watching Deyna take on Liverpool almost single handedly, we lost 2 nil (I think) but it was one of the finest performances I've ever seen from a City player.
I remember standing on The Kop at Anfield (couldn't get tickets for our end) and watching Deyna take on Liverpool almost single handedly, we lost 2 nil (I think) but it was one of the finest performances I've ever seen from a City player.
Dyed Petya
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He was brought in originally to play in midfield, but the pace and direct style of English football meant that the game often passed him by. Most of his best games for us came when we switched him up front. He was a brilliantly talented player and scored some cracking goals, though I think he was regarded as inconsistent. Sadly, he never got a look in after John Bond replaced Malcolm Allison.
Happy's right - he was a step ahead of his team mates, and playing in a better team (rather than in the one we had under Big Mal that was struggling badly) he may well have achieved more. My dad used to compare him to Denis Law in Denis's first City spell in terms of just being too good for the players around him.
Happy's right - he was a step ahead of his team mates, and playing in a better team (rather than in the one we had under Big Mal that was struggling badly) he may well have achieved more. My dad used to compare him to Denis Law in Denis's first City spell in terms of just being too good for the players around him.
Sheikh Rattle n Roll
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He was class. I wish we had another Kaziu in our side today. RIP Legend!
lancs blue
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It was a shame that the Communist bloc's policy of not allowing players to move West until they were past 30 meant that we didn't get the best of Deyna who probably peaked at the 1974 World Cup where he was a key part of the Polish team that finished 3rd.
He was still a class above anything else we had on the pitch at the time, a very elegant and composed player, he made some of his goals look very easy when they actually weren't.
He was still a class above anything else we had on the pitch at the time, a very elegant and composed player, he made some of his goals look very easy when they actually weren't.