Bartosz Kapustka

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Bartosz Kapustka
Personnel
birthday December 23, 1996
place of birth Tarnow ,  Poland
size 179 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
0000-2009 Tarnovia Tarnów
2009-2011 Hutnik Kraków
2011–2012 Tarnovia Tarnów
2012-2013 KS Cracovia
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2013-2016 KS Cracovia 60 (6)
2016– Leicester City 0 (0)
2016– Leicester City U23 12 (3)
2017-2018 →  SC Freiburg  (loan) 7 (1)
2017-2018 → SC Freiburg II (loan) 2 (0)
2018-2019 →  Oud-Heverlee Löwen  (loan) 21 (3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2012 Poland U-17 1 (0)
2013 Poland U18 1 (0)
2014 Poland U-19 2 (1)
2015-2016 Poland 14 (3)
2017-2019 Poland U-21 15 (1)
1 Only league games are given.
As of May 2, 2018

2 As of May 2, 2019

Bartosz Kapustka (born December 23, 1996 in Tarnów ) is a Polish football player .

Career

society

Kapustka began his professional career in 2013 at KS Cracovia Krakau , where he was mainly used as a regular player. He made his debut on March 29, 2014 in the game against Widzew Łódź (1: 1) in the Polish Ekstraklasa . After the European Football Championship in 2016 , he was signed by the English champions Leicester City . After only playing in three FA Cup games there in the 2016/17 season , he switched to the German Bundesliga club SC Freiburg on loan during the summer break . There he made his debut in the 4-0 defeat against Bayer 04 Leverkusen (4th matchday) when he came on for Marco Terrazzino in the 69th minute . Kapustka scored his first goal in the Bundesliga when Freiburg lost 3-1 to VfL Wolfsburg on November 18, 2017 (12th matchday). At the beginning of the 2018/19 season he was loaned to Oud-Heverlee Leuven in Belgium , where his loan contract ended on April 2 and he returned to Leicester. Since then he has played again for the U23 of the English club in the Premier League 2 .

National team

Kapustka played a few games for various Polish youth national teams. In the senior national team he made his debut on September 7, 2015 against Gibraltar (8: 1) as part of the qualification for the EM 2016 . He came on in the 62nd minute for Jakub Błaszczykowski and scored the goal for 8-0. He was also able to score a goal in his second international match against Iceland (4-2). He was used throughout the EM preparation and finally added to the squad of Poland . In the group matches he was on the starting line-up twice, only against Germany he only came on as a substitute. After two yellow cards, he had to pause in the round of 16. In the quarter-finals against Portugal, he came onto the field shortly before the end of regular time. The game was lost after extra time on penalties. In 2017 he made his debut for the U21s in his country in a friendly against Italy (1: 2) in Krakow .

Others

In 2015 Kapustka won the election of the soccer magazine Piłka Nożna as the new discovery of the year in Polish football.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 4: 0! Volland frees the Werkself and himself , match report on kicker.de, accessed on November 26, 2017.
  2. ↑ Malli ends the series of draws in Wolfsburg , match report on kicker.de, accessed on November 26, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Kapustka, Bartosz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarnow , Poland