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P. J. Polowski

American soccer player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ16214565 ↗
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Paul Polowski is an American retired soccer forward who played professionally in the USL A-League and the Continental Indoor Soccer League.

Polowski began his collegiate career at Orange Coast College in 1991. That season, the team won the California state championship. In 1993, he transferred to UC Irvine. In only two seasons, he scored thirty goals, placing him third in the school's career goals list. In 1995, Polowski turned professional with the Las Vegas Dustdevils of the Continental Indoor Soccer League. He moved to the Anaheim Splash for the next two seasons. In 1998, he moved outdoors with the Orange County Zodiac of the USL A-League. In 2000, the Zodiac was renamed the Wave.

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The public source identifies “P. J. Polowski” as american soccer player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Polowski, American and soccer.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1993, 1995, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1973-06-18. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Polowski, American and soccer providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16214565. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991, 1993, 1995 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “P. J. Polowski” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.