Artur Boruc

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Artur Boruc
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Artur Boruc 2013
Personnel
birthday February 20, 1980
place of birth Siedlce ,  Poland
size 193 cm
position goalkeeper
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-1999 Pogoń Siedlce 12 (0)
1999-2005 Legia Warsaw 69 (1)
2000 →  Dolcan Ząbki  (loan) 13 (0)
2005 →  Celtic Glasgow  (loan) 9 (0)
2005-2010 Celtic Glasgow 154 (0)
2010–2012 AC Florence 62 (0)
2012-2015 Southampton FC 49 (0)
2014-2015 →  AFC Bournemouth  (loan) 37 (0)
2015-2020 Bournemouth AFC 79 (0)
2020– Legia Warsaw 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2004-2016 Poland 64 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2017/18

Artur Boruc [ ˈartur ˈbɔruts ] (born February 20, 1980 in Siedlce , Poland ) is a Polish football goalkeeper who has been under contract with Legia Warsaw since 2020 .

Club career

In Poland

Boruc began his career in 1998 in his hometown near Pogoń Siedlce . Only a year later, Boruc moved to Legia Warsaw , where he was initially only used in the reserve team. After half a year he was loaned to Dolcan Ząbki , a club that was then playing in the 2nd Polish league. After returning to Legia, he played his first game in the Ekstraklasa , the first Polish league, in March 2002 . This season he was also able to celebrate his first major title when he was Polish champion with Legia Warszawa.

In the second half of the 2002/03 season, Boruc became the goalkeeper of Legia and from then on played regularly in the Ekstraklasa. In June 2004 he scored the only goal in his professional career when he converted a penalty in a 6-0 win over Widzew Łódź .

In scotland

Artur Boruc

On June 20, 2005 he was loaned to the Scottish club Celtic Glasgow for a year . This loan deal included a purchase option that Celtic also used to sign Boruc until 2009. On January 5, 2008, he extended his contract with the "Green-Whites" until June 30, 2011.

His time at Celtic was very successful for Boruc. He won the Scottish Championship three times in a row and reached the last sixteen of the Champions League with Celtic in the 2006/07 and 2007/08 seasons .

In Italy

Artur Boruc in the AC Florence jersey

In July 2010 he signed a two-year contract with Fiorentina. After Sébastien Frey ruptured his cruciate ligament , Boruc became a regular goalkeeper at Fiorentina because of strong performances. In the summer of 2012, however, his expiring contract was not extended and Boruc was initially without a club.

In England

At the end of September 2012 Boruc was signed by the English first division club and promoted FC Southampton . He signed a contract until the end of the 2012/13 season . At the beginning of the 2014/15 season he was loaned to the English second division AFC Bournemouth until the end of the year . With the "Cherries" he was promoted to the Premier League. He was then firmly committed and remained in the first division goalkeeper of the AFC.

Return to Poland

In the summer of 2020 Boruc moved to Legia Warsaw in the Ekstraklasa after his contract with Bournemouth ended on a free transfer .

National team career

Boruc made his debut for the Polish national team on April 28, 2004 in a goalless draw with Ireland .

After Jerzy Dudek was out due to an injury at the beginning of the 2005/06 season, Boruc played the last World Cup qualifiers and had a significant role with his above-average performance that Poland qualified for the 2006 World Cup in Germany . Boruc fought a similar duel with Jerzy Dudek in the run-up to the 2006 World Cup as Jens Lehmann did with Oliver Kahn . Artur Boruc was finally nominated as number one for the World Cup by the then national coach Paweł Janas . Janas even did without Jerzy Dudek entirely, which led to enormous discussions in the Polish media, which were increased after the opening defeat at the World Cup with 0-2 against Ecuador . Poland was eliminated in the preliminary round, as the team also lost against Germany and with only one win against Costa Rica fell into third place in the preliminary group.

Boruc also took part as the first goalkeeper of the Polish national team at the 2008 European Championships in Austria and Switzerland . Poland were eliminated after a draw and two defeats in the preliminary round. In the period after that he made a few appearances in the following World Cup qualification, but from 2010 to 2012 he only played two friendlies and he did not take part in the 2012 European Championship in his own country. It was not until February 2013 that he was tested for a half-time in a friendly against Ireland and then returned to the national team in qualifying for the World Cup. He played 6 of the 7 group games.

In qualifying for the European Football Championship 2016 , he was number 2 in goal behind Wojciech Szczęsny . He was not used, but was accepted as the second substitute goalkeeper in Poland 's EM squad . At 36 he was the oldest representative of his country in France, but was not deployed there. Artur Boruc resigned from the Polish national team in early 2017.

controversy

2006 saw the Catholic Boruc stir because it in February in a game at the Rangers had tried, despite a ban that traditionally Protestant supporters of the host with a sign of the cross to provoke. Boruc received a fine of unknown amount for this in August, as well as an entry in his criminal record. His club, Celtic Glasgow, whose following is traditionally Catholic, did not draw any conclusions from this incident.

On May 5, 2007 there was another argument between Boruc and the Protestant Rangers fans. After Celtic's 2-0 defeat at Rangers, Boruc borrowed a Celtic flag from a Celtic fan and ran it across the square, waving sardonically at the angry Rangers fans. After the game he said that he was just happy because Celtic won the Scottish Championship despite the defeat in front of the Rangers and he just wanted to express his joy, the Rangers fans saw this action as further provocation in their direction Clubs and since then are definitely no longer good to speak of on Boruc. With the Celtic fans, however, Boruc did not only become a public favorite since this campaign.

Others

Since joining Celtic Glasgow , Boruc has been nicknamed "Spaceman" in some fan circles because of his parades. Because of his Catholic faith, he is also called "The Holy Goalie".

In 2007 he was named the third best goalkeeper in the world by the Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport .

On November 2, 2013, he was overcome after 17 seconds in the Premier League game against Stoke City by opposing goalkeeper Asmir Begović with a tee shot in front of him . The game ended in a 1-1 draw.

Artur Boruc was married to his first wife Katarzyna from 2001 to 2009. With her he has a son who was born on June 11, 2008 during the European Football Championship in 2008. From 2010 he was in a relationship with the model Sara Mannei, whom he married in 2014. Their daughter was born on August 3, 2010.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Boruc extends at Celtic" (kicker.de)
  2. ↑ saintsfc.co.uk: Boruc Pens Saints Deal , September 22, 2012, accessed September 23, 2012
  3. ↑ http://www.afcb.co.uk : AFC Bournemouth sign Artur Boruc on loan from Southampton ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 19, 2014, accessed September 24, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.afcb.co.uk
  4. ↑ Celtic hero Artur Boruc, 40, seals dream Legia return after Bournemouth exit. August 2, 2020, Retrieved August 2, 2020 (UK English).
  5. ↑ On the nickname "Spaceman"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / sport.orf.at  
  6. ↑ Artur Boruc wziął cichy ślub for Sara Mannei
personal data
SURNAME Boruc, Artur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Siedlce , Siedlce Voivodeship , Poland