Jakub Błaszczykowski

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Jakub Błaszczykowski
Jakub Błaszczykowski 2019.jpg
Jakub Błaszczykowski (2019)
Personnel
birthday December 14, 1985
place of birth Truskolasy ,  Poland
size 176 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1993-2002 Raków Częstochowa
2002 Górnik Zabrze
2003 KS Częstochowa
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2003-2005 KS Częstochowa 24 (11)
2005-2007 Wisła Krakow 51 0(3)
2007-2015 Borussia Dortmund 197 (27)
2015-2016 →  Fiorentina  (loan) 15 0(2)
2016-2018 VfL Wolfsburg 38 0(1)
2019– Wisła Krakow 23 (10)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2004 Poland U19 8 0(0)
2005-2006 Poland U21 3 0(1)
2005 Poland B 1 0(0)
2007 Poland U23 1 0(0)
2006– Poland 108 (21)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 3, 2020

2 As of September 9, 2020

Jakub "Kuba" Błaszczykowski [ ˈjakup bwaʃʧɨˈkɔfski ] ( listen ? / I ) (born December 14, 1985 in Truskolasy , Częstochowa Voivodeship ) is a Polish football player who is currently under contract with the Polish first division club Wisła Krakow . Audio file / audio sample

Career

societies

Beginnings in Poland

Jakub Błaszczykowski began his football career at the age of eight with his brother Dawid, who was three years older, at Raków Częstochowa . He was discovered by the scouts of the Polish record champions and first division club Górnik Zabrze , where he moved in autumn 2002. At Górnik Zabrze, however, he could not prevail and was released back to Częstochowa in 2003 to local rivals KS Częstochowa in the fourth Polish league. His breakthrough came in 2005 when he was hired by the then reigning Polish champion Wisła Krakow during the winter break of 2004/05 and established a regular position there. In the same game year he was Polish champion with Wisła Krakau.

Career highlight at Borussia Dortmund

Błaszczykowski in the Borussia Dortmund jersey (2007)

In July 2007 he moved to Borussia Dortmund . Błaszczykowski was considered one of the most hopeful Polish football talents at the time. Zbigniew Boniek called him "little Figo ". With Borussia Dortmund he was in the DFB Cup final in Berlin on April 19, 2008 , which the team lost 2-1 to Bayern Munich after extra time . He scored his first competitive goal for Borussia Dortmund on April 25, 2008 in the game against Eintracht Frankfurt to make it 1-1. After finishing sixth in 2009 and fifth in 2010 , Błaszczykowski became German champions with Borussia Dortmund in 2011 and 2012 . On May 12, 2012, he played again with Borussia Dortmund in the DFB-Pokal final in Berlin and this time won 5-2 against Bayern Munich.

On the 18th matchday of the 2013/14 season he suffered a cruciate ligament rupture in his right knee in the home game against FC Augsburg after getting stuck on the grass. He made his comeback on December 9, 2014 in a 1-1 draw in the Champions League game against RSC Anderlecht , when he came on for Shinji Kagawa in the 84th minute .

Błaszczykowski's jersey with the number 16 bore his nickname Cuba , the Polish diminutive of Jakub , until the 2011/12 season . Since the 2012/13 season , his full name Błaszczykowski has been printed at his request . During the summer break of 2012, Błaszczykowski extended his contract with Borussia Dortmund by three years until 2016; in June 2013 again for two years until June 30, 2018.

Via Florence to Wolfsburg

Błaszczykowski in training at Fiorentina (2015)

At the end of the summer transfer period on August 31, 2015, Błaszczykowski was loaned to the Italian Fiorentina for the 2015/16 season.

After the end of the loan at Fiorentina and the subsequent European Championship in France Błaszczykowski did not return more to Borussia Dortmund back but joined the season 2016/17 to VfL Wolfsburg , where he received a up to 30 June 2019 dated three-year contract. He made his debut for the Wolves on August 27, 2016 (1st matchday) in a 2-0 away win against FC Augsburg. He scored his first Bundesliga goal for VfL Wolfsburg on October 15, 2017 (8th matchday) in a 2-2 draw in the away game against Bayer 04 Leverkusen with the goal in the 69th minute. In both seasons Błaszczykowski had to compete with VfL Wolfsburg in the relegation relegation, both against Eintracht Braunschweig and against Holstein Kiel the class was held.

After Błaszczykowski had only made a brief appearance in the Bundesliga under Bruno Labbadia in the first half of the 2018/19 season , he agreed with the club to terminate his contract on January 3, 2019.

Błaszczykowski holds the record for the highest substitution rate in the Bundesliga (119 substitutions out of 235 appearances).

Return to Wisła Krakow

On February 7, 2019, it became public that Błaszczykowski had signed a six-month contract with the Polish first division club Wisła Krakau and thus returned to his ex-club. The contract guaranteed him a monthly salary of only 500 złoty (the equivalent of around 116 euros) and is part of a financial support from Błaszczykowski for the club, which has run into financial difficulties. The midfielder donates his entire salary to local orphanages in the form of tickets. In the summer of 2019, the midfielder's contract was extended to June 2020.

As part of the global COVID-19 pandemic , the Pole announced at the beginning of April 2020 that he and two business partners wanted to acquire the club's football department in order to save them from financial ruin.

National team

Błaszczykowski in the national team jersey (2016)

On March 28, 2006, Błaszczykowski made his debut in the senior national team in the friendly against Saudi Arabia , but was not appointed to the 2006 World Cup squad by then national coach Paweł Janas . Two years later he was nominated for the 2008 European Championship by Poland's new coach, Leo Beenhakker . Shortly before the first group game against Germany , Błaszczykowski injured his thigh and had to leave; Łukasz Piszczek was nominated for him .

At the beginning of 2011, Błaszczykowski took over the captain's armband for the first time and also led the Polish team into the 2012 European Championship in their own country as captain . On June 12, 2012 he scored his first goal at an international tournament there with the goal for the 1-1 final in the game against Russia . Until 2014, Błaszczykowski was the national team captain. Then he was absent for over a year due to an injury and only returned in the second half of qualifying for the 2016 European Football Championship in France. It was only in preparation for the European Championship that he played a full game in the national jersey again and was then part of a Polish squad for the third time . In the opening game against Northern Ireland he provided the template for the winning goal scorer Arkadiusz Milik and he was also in the starting line-up against Germany . In the last group game against Ukraine , he scored the 1-0 winner shortly after being substituted on at half-time, making him the first Polish two-time European goalscorer. Poland reached the round of 16 as second in the group and met Switzerland there . They won the game on penalties, with Błaszczykowski converting the fourth of five penalties. The quarter-finals against Portugal were again decided on penalties. Błaszczykowski missed the decisive penalty and Portugal advanced to 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.

successes

Club teams

Wisła Krakow
Borussia Dortmund

Awards

Others

Błaszczykowski is married and has two daughters.

He comes from a family of athletes: his uncle Jerzy Brzęczek also played in the national team and was its captain when it won the silver medal at the 1992 Olympic Games . Later this and Błaszczykowski's brother Dawid trained the Polish third division club Raków Częstochowa . His cousin Janusz Wojnarowicz is one of the best judoka in Poland (six European Championship medals).

Błaszczykowski was ten years old when he witnessed his father stab his mother to death. He had to go to prison for 15 years and died in 2012. Jakub and his brother were raised by their grandmother.

Web links

Commons : Jakub Błaszczykowski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Narodziny gwiazdy? Bialej Gwiazdy? , gazeta.pl from January 5, 2007
  2. ↑ Jakub Blaszczykowski - zyciorys + wywiad "Niepokonani & q , www.cs-kopytko.pl from June 30, 2012
  3. ↑ Kicker: BVB brings Blaszczykowski
  4. ↑ Blaszczykowski suffers cruciate ligament rupture , bvb.de, from January 26, 2014
  5. ↑ kicker online: BVB moves into the round of 16 as leaders of the table , December 9, 2014, accessed on December 9, 2014.
  6. ^ Information from commentator Hansi Küpper on the edge of the LIGA! Total Cups 2012 in Hamburg
  7. ↑ Dortmund: Blaszczykowski remains zeit.de until 2016 , accessed on July 24, 2012
  8. ↑ Jakub Blaszczykowski changes to AC Florence on loan , bvb.de
  9. ↑ Confirmed: Cuba is committed to VfL until 2019 , kicker.de, August 1, 2016, accessed on August 1, 2016.
  10. ↑ Jakub Blaszczykowski moves to Wolfsburg bvb.de, accessed on August 1, 2016
  11. ↑ Sixth new entry vfl-wolfsburg.de, accessed on August 1, 2016
  12. ↑ See this tweet by VfL Wolfsburg from January 3, 2019, accessed on January 3, 2019.
  13. ↑ Herrmann's exchange record postponed again. In: kicker.de. December 3, 2019, accessed December 3, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Jakub Błaszczykowski donates his entire mini-salary at Wisla Krakow , 90min.de, February 7, 2019
  15. ↑ Blaszczykowski's return to Krakow fixed: 500 zloty monthly salary will be donated , transfermarkt.de, accessed on February 8, 2019
  16. ↑ Poland's Blaszczykowski joins troubled Wisla Krakow , uk.reuters.com, accessed on February 8, 2019 (English)
  17. ↑ Rescuer in need: Blaszczykowski buys his employer , kicker.de, accessed on April 5, 2020
  18. ↑ DPA on June 6, 2008: Blaszczykowski is canceled for EM
  19. ↑ t-online.de on December 11, 2014: Robert Lewandowski is Poland's new captain
  20. ↑ BVB professional Cuba best Pole ( Memento from May 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  21. ↑ dfb.de: Blaszczykowski wants "just to be Cuba"
  22. ↑ "Kuba Błaszczykowski: RODZICE - ojciec zadźgał matkę" ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2012 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. (Polish, accessed June 13, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gwizdek24.se.pl
personal data
SURNAME Błaszczykowski, Jakub
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Błaszczykowski, Cuba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Truskolasy , Częstochowa Voivodeship , Poland