Gene Grabowski is a former American soccer forward

Striker

Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...

 who earned a cap with the U.S. national team in a 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification

1958 FIFA World Cup qualification

-UEFA Group 2:--------------------France qualified.-UEFA Group 3:--------------------Hungary qualified.-UEFA Group 4:--------------------Czechoslovakia qualified...

 game.

Club career

Grabowksi graduated from Kearny High School of Kearny, New Jersey

Kearny, New Jersey

Kearny is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. It was named after Civil War general Philip Kearny. As of the United States 2010 Census, the town population was 40,684. The town is a suburb of the nearby city of Newark....

 in 1953. In 1999, he was named by The Star-Ledger

The Star-Ledger

The Star-Ledger is the largest circulated newspaper in the U.S. state of New Jersey and is based in Newark. It is a sister paper to The Jersey Journal of Jersey City, The Times of Trenton and the Staten Island Advance, all of which are owned by Advance Publications.The Newark Star-Ledgers daily...

as one of the top ten New Jersey high school soccer players of the 1940s-1960s. He spent at least one season with the Elizabeth Falcons

Elizabeth Falcons

The Elizabeth Falcons were an American soccer club based in Elizabeth, New Jersey that was a member of the American Soccer League. After the 1958-59 season, the club became simply Falcons S.C. and became known as Falcons-Warsaw before the 1962-63 season.After the 1963-64 season, the team became the...

 of the American Soccer League

American Soccer League

The American Soccer League has been a name used by three different professional soccer leagues in the United States. The first American Soccer League was established in 1921 by the merger of teams from the National Association Football League and the Southern New England Soccer League. For...

 (ASL) as he led the ASL in scoring with 19 goals during the 1955-1956 season. That season, the Falcons lost the championship game to Uhrik Truckers

Uhrik Truckers

Philadelphia German-American was an American soccer club based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that was an inaugural member of the professional American Soccer League.Before the 1941/42 season the club became known as the Philadelphia Americans...

.

National team

Grabowski earned one caps with the U.S. national team on April 7, 1957. That game, a 7-0 loss to Mexico

Mexico national football team

The Mexican national football team represents Mexico in association football and is governed by the Mexican Football Federation , the governing body for football in Mexico. Mexico's home stadium is the Estadio Azteca and their head coach is José Manuel de la Torre...

 was a qualifier for the 1958 FIFA World Cup

1958 FIFA World Cup

The 1958 FIFA World Cup, the sixth staging of the World Cup, was hosted by Sweden from 8 June to 29 June. The tournament was won by Brazil, who beat Sweden 5–2 in the final for their first title. To date, this marks the only occasion that a World Cup staged in Europe was not won by a European...

. Grabowski also scored one goal with the U.S. in its 7-2 victory over Haiti in the 1959 Pan American Games

Football at the 1959 Pan American Games

The third edition of the football tournament at the Pan American Games was held in Chicago, Illinois, from August 21 to September 5, 1959. Seven teams did compete in a round-robin competition, with Argentina defending the title once again.-Matches:...

. The U.S. took the bronze medals at those games, which are not recognized internationals.