André Jacowski
André Jacowski was a Franco-Polish footballer who played as a defender for Stade de Reims between 1945 and 1953. He also played two matches for the French national team in 1952. He was a member of the great Stade de Reims team of the early 1950s, which won two Ligue 1 titles, one Coupe de France in 1950, and the 1953 Latin Cup.
Playing career
Club career
Born on 5 December 1921 in Wiatowice, near Kraków, Andrzej Żakowski began his football career at the amateur club, one of the many Catholic clubs affiliated with the Gymnastic and Sports Federation of French Patronages that offered a culturally familiar sporting to home many Polish immigrants and war refugees. Shortly after the liberation of France in 1945, he joined Stade de Reims, which had been recently promoted the top flight, where he eventually established himself as a regular at right back.Together with Paul Sinibaldi, Roger Marche, and Albert Batteux, he was a member of the great Stade de Reims team of the early 1950s that won two Ligue 1 titles and one Coupe de France in 1950, starting in the final at Colombes on 14 May, where he helped his side keep a clean-sheet in a 2–0 victory his future club RC Paris. On the following day, the journalists of the French newspaper L'Équipe stated that he and Marche "saved Reims in the first half with last-ditch tackles and dives on the ball", and then "held firm after the restart and were, with goalkeeper Sinibaldi, their team's best players". Three years later, he helped Reims win the 1953 Latin Cup, the forerunner of the European Cup, although he did not start in the final. He stayed at Reims for eight years, from 1945 until 1953, when he moved to Ligue 2 team RC Paris, where he retired in 1954, aged 33. in total, he scored 2 goals in 190 league matches.