Jakub Wawrzyniak

Jakub Wawrzyniak
Personnel
Surname	Jakub Wawrzyniak
birthday	July 7, 1983
place of birth	Kutno ,  Poland
size	188 cm
position	defender
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2001	Sparta Złotów
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2001	MSP Szamotuły
2002	Sparta Oborniki
2002-2003	Sparta Brodnica	28 (1)
2003	Błękitni Stargard	13 (1)
2004	Świt Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki	19 (0)
2005-2007	Widzew Łódź	68 (5)
2007-2013	Legia Warszawa	126 (7)
2010	Legia Warszawa ME	10 (3)
2009	→  Panathinaikos Athens  (loan)	9 (0)
2014-2015	Amkar Perm	15 (1)
2015-2018	Lechia Gdańsk	98 (0)
2018–	GKS Katowice	19 (1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2006-2016	Poland	49 (1)
1 Only league games are given. As of May 27, 2019

Jakub Wawrzyniak (born July 7, 1983 in Kutno , Płock Voivodeship ) is a Polish football player . Since 2018 he has been playing for the Polish second division club GKS Katowice .

Club career

Jakub Wawrzyniak made his debut in the Polish Ekstraklasa on March 20, 2004 for Świt Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki against Wisła Kraków (1: 2). His other stations in the top Polish league were Widzew Łódź and Legia Warszawa . From January to July 2009 he was awarded to Greece to Panathinaikos Athens . However, the employment relationship was terminated after it became known that Wawrzyniak had tested positive for methylhexanamine in a doping control . He was then banned by FIFA for 1 year and returned to Legia Warszawa. There he was also suspended in the first half of the 2009/10 season . After the suspension Jakub Wawrzyniak was able to find his way back to his old strength and was a regular player in the defense of Legia Warsaw for the next 4 years. At the beginning of 2014 he moved to Amkar Perm in Russia for a transfer fee of EUR 100,000 . In total, he completed 15 league games for Amkar and scored 1 goal. For the second half of the 2014/15 season he returned to Poland and signed a 2-year contract with Lechia Gdańsk . Here he played until 2018 and then joined second division GKS Katowice .

National team

Wawrzyniak made his debut on December 6, 2006 in the game against the United Arab Emirates for Poland . The then Polish national coach Leo Beenhakker also nominated him for the 2008 European Championships in Austria and Switzerland . Here he was also used in the group game against Croatia . He also took part in the 2012 European Championships in Poland and Ukraine , but was not used.

He then continued to be a regular member of the national squad and wore the captain's armband for the first time on February 2, 2013. In qualifying for the 2016 European Football Championship in France, he played 5 of the 10 competitive games and was then in a European Championship squad for the third time . However, like 4 other players in the squad, he did not appear in any tournament and then did not play any more international matches.

successes

• Polish champion ( 2013 , 2014 )
• Polish Cup Winner ( 2008 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 )
• Polish Super Cup winner (2008)
• Participation in the European Championship (2008, 2012 and 2016)

Web links

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

• Jakub Wawrzyniak in the 90minut.pl database (Polish)
• Jakub Wawrzyniak in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Μπαράζ ντόπινγκ στον ελληνικό αθλητισμό kathimerini.gr June 9, 2009
2. ↑ FIFA zdyskwalifikowała Wawrzyniaka na rok 90minut.pl July 28, 2009