Kazimierz Deyna

Polish footballer (1947–1989)

Kazimierz Deyna made a career in sport at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.

The record lists Kazimierz Deyna as Polish footballer (1947–1989).

Kazimierz Deyna was born at Starogard Gdański in 1947. His recorded nationality is Poland.

The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.

Kazimierz Deyna is described as association football player, military personnel and soldier.

In sport the margin between the remembered and the forgotten is often a fraction of a second.

Formal recognition came in the shape of the Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

Working from Poland shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.

Death came in 1989, at 42. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.

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