The 2006 FIFA World Cup is Poland's 7th successful World Cup qualifying campaign. In their début in 1938, the Poles were eliminated early on, after a remarkable 6-5 loss to Brazil. Poland enjoyed greater success in 1974, prising third place from Brazil in Germany with a goal by Lato. In 1982, the Polish team repeated their 1974 performance. In the semi-finals they came up against the on-form Italians and lost by 2-0. They went on to defeat France 3-2 and claimed third place overall.
The team will be playing in Group A along with Germany, Costa Rica and Ecudor.
The Star Men are Artur Boruc and Maciej Zurawski, both of Celtic. Artur Boruc, National’s team first choice goalkeeper putting in fantastic displays during their qualifying campaign. Zurawski is a key goal scorer and has netted 15 times in his short international career as well as creating many goal scoring opportunities.
List of Poland Team Players Participating In FIFA World Cup 2006
Artur Boruc
Mariusz Jop
Seweryn Gancarczyk
Marcin Baszczynski
Kamil Kosowski
Jacek Bak
Radoslaw Sobolewski
Jacek Krzynowek
Maciej Zurawski
Miroslaw Szymkowiak
Grzegorz Rasiak
Tomasz Kuszczak
Sebastian Mila
Michal Zewlakow
Euzebiusz 'Ebi' Smolarek
Arkadiusz Radomski
Dariusz Dudka
Mariusz Lewandowski
Damian Gorawski
Piotr Giza
Ireneusz Jelen
Lukasz Fabianski
Pawel Brozek
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