Arkadiusz Milik

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Arkadiusz Milik
Arkadiusz Milik 2016.jpg
Milik at SSC Napoli (2016)
Personnel
birthday February 28, 1994
place of birth Tychy ,  Poland
size 186 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
2000-2011 Rozwój Katowice
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2010-2011 Rozwój Katowice 10 0(4)
2010 → Górnik Zabrze ME (loan) 2 0(1)
2011–2012 Górnik Zabrze 38 (11)
2011–2012 Górnik Zabrze ME 4 0(2)
2013-2014 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 6 0(0)
2013 Bayer 04 Leverkusen II 5 0(5)
2013-2014 →  FC Augsburg  (loan) 18 0(2)
2014 Jong Ajax 1 0(0)
2014-2016 Ajax Amsterdam 52 (32)
2016– SSC Naples 81 (36)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2011 Poland U-17 1 0(1)
2012 Poland U18 1 0(0)
2011–2012 Poland U-19 7 0(5)
2012-2014 Poland U-21 9 (10)
2012– Poland 49 (14)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: February 9, 2020

2 As of October 14, 2017

Arkadiusz "Arek" Milik (born February 28, 1994 in Tychy ) is a Polish football player . He plays for SSC Napoli and is a Polish national player .

Career

societies

Early years

Milik grew up in his native Tychy. Since no football club had a youth team corresponding to his age there during his youth, he commuted to Katowice, 20 kilometers away, and was trained in the youth department of Rozwój Katowice . On October 23, 2010 he made his debut for the club's first team in the fourth-class third division , scoring two goals. After he scored four goals in ten games in the third division in the 2010/11 season and had also reached third place with the U-17 team of his club in the Polish U-17 championship finals, Milik moved to in the summer of 2011 Górnik Zabrze . He had already completed a trial training there in November 2010 and came to two missions and one goal after his change for the second team in the Młoda Ekstraklasa . He made his first appearance in the first-class Ekstraklasa on the first day of the 2011/12 season . He scored four goals in 24 games this season, seven goals in 14 games in the first half of the 2012/13 season .

Germany

On January 1, 2013, the German Bundesliga club Bayer 04 Leverkusen signed him . He signed a contract that ran until the end of June 2018. For the 2013/14 season of lent him FC Augsburg . He made his Bundesliga debut on September 21, 2013 on the 6th matchday in the 1: 2 defeat in the away game against Hannover 96 with a substitution for Matthias Ostrzolek in the 90th minute; he scored his first Bundesliga goal on September 27, 2013 on the 7th matchday in the home game against Borussia Mönchengladbach with the goal to make it 2-2 in the 88th minute.

Ajax Amsterdam

For the 2014/15 season , Milik was loaned to the Dutch record champions Ajax Amsterdam . On August 3, 2014, he made his debut for Ajax in the Johan Cruyff Cup in the game against PEC Zwolle in the starting line-up; he was replaced after 82 minutes by Kolbeinn Sigthorsson . On August 10, 2014, he came to the Eredivisie for the first time when he was in the 4-1 win on Matchday 1 against Vitesse Arnheim in the starting lineup and was substituted in the 59th minute for Daley Blind . On September 13, 2014, he scored his first two goals for the club in a 2-1 win on matchday five against Heracles Almelo .

His first appearance in the UEFA Champions League four days later was when he came on for Lasse Schøne in the 82nd minute in the first group game against Paris Saint-Germain . On September 24, 2014, Arkadiusz Milik scored six goals and provided two assists in a 9-0 win in the second round in the KNVB-Beker at JOS Watergraafsmeer . Ajax Amsterdam was eliminated from this competition in the round of 16 with a 3-0 defeat against Vitesse Arnheim. On December 10, 2014, he scored his first goal in this competition in the last group game of the Champions League against APOEL Nicosia with the goal to make it 4-0. In the group stage, Ajax Amsterdam took third place and continued to play in the Europa League . Milik made five appearances in the Champions League.

In the sixteenth finals of the Europa League , Ajax Amsterdam met Legia Warsaw ; on February 18, 2015 Milik made his debut in the first leg of this competition and scored the 1-0 winning goal. In the second leg on February 26, 2015, Ajax Amsterdam won 3-0; Milik scored two hits. Ajax was eliminated in the round of 16 against Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk ; Milik was used in both the first and second leg.

In the league he played in 21 games and scored eleven goals; In the final table, the Amsterdam team took second place behind PSV Eindhoven .

Ajax used its purchase option on April 1, 2015 and signed Milik until June 2019.

SSC Naples

At the beginning of August 2016, Milik was signed by SSC Napoli as the successor to center forward Gonzalo Higuaín , who had switched to Juventus Turin . The transfer fee was about 35 million, according to media reports euros . He made his Serie A debut on August 21, 2016 (1st matchday) in a 2-2 draw against Delfino Pescara in 1936 . On the next matchday he scored two goals in a 4-2 win against AC Milan and thus his first league goal. In the Champions League , Milik first appeared on September 13, 2016 in the first group game against Dynamo Kiev . In the 2-1 win, he scored both goals with his head.

National team

Milik at the international match between Poland and Ireland (2013)

On October 12, 2012 Milik made his debut in the Polish national team against South Africa . Four days later, he made his competitive debut in qualifying for the 2014 World Cup against England . In his fourth appearance for the national team on December 14, 2012, he scored his first international goal in a 4-1 win in the test international match against Macedonia . He then played for a year in the Polish U-21 team and was then called back to the A team in the qualifying phase for the 2016 European Championship . On October 11, 2014 in Warsaw in the game against world champions Germany with his header to 1-0 (final score 2-0) , he initiated the first Polish win against a DFB team. He played nine of the ten qualifying games and was only absent in the last game against Ireland due to injury. He scored six goals; with six assists, he was the best set goal maker in qualifying.

He was then called up as one of three strikers in the Polish squad for the Euro 2016 in France and played all five games as a regular. In the first game against Northern Ireland he scored the 1-0 winner, in the third game against Ukraine he prepared the decisive goal for Poland. Both the eighth and quarter-finals were decided on penalties and both times he was successful as a shooter. Nevertheless, the team lost to Portugal in the quarter-finals and missed the semi-finals.

At the 2018 World Cup in Russia, he was part of the Polish squad . He was used in a group game and retired with the team after the group stage.

Web links

Commons : Arkadiusz Milik  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chłopak z osiedla "N", czyli kim jest Arkadiusz Milik , eurosport.onet.pl, October 14, 2012 (Polish)
  2. ↑ bayer04.de: Bayer 04 sign Poland national player Arkadiusz Milik ( memento from December 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), December 17, 2012, accessed on December 17, 2012
  3. ↑ Official: Leverkusen talent Milik storms for FC Augsburg ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), transfermarkt.de , August 30, 2013.
  4. ↑ Ajax contracteert Arek Milik , ajax.nl, March 31, 2015 (Dutch)
  5. ^ Announcement on the SSC Napoli website, accessed on August 2, 2016 (Italian)
  6. ↑ Naples flashes with a 60 million offer for Icardi - Milik is coming , transfermarkt.de , August 1, 2016, accessed on November 2, 2016
  7. ↑ Pole moves to Naples | Milik transfer: Bayer collects over five million euros! , sportbild.bild.de , August 2, 2016, accessed on November 2, 2016
  8. ↑ Poland striker Milik: The man at Lewandowski's page spiegel.de , June 16, 2016, accessed on June 16, 2016
  9. ↑ List on the UEFA website , accessed on June 17, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Milik, Arkadiusz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milik, Arek (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Tychy , Poland