Krzysztof Piątek

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Krzysztof Piątek
Personnel
birthday July 1, 1995
place of birth Dzierżoniów ,  Poland
size 183 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
0000-2006 Niemczanka Niemcza
2006-2011 Dziewiątka Dzierżoniów
2011–2012 Lechia Dzierżoniów
at least 2014 Zagłębie Lubin
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2012-2013 Lechia Dzierżoniów 6 0(0)
2013-2016 Zagłębie Lubin 72 (15)
2016-2018 KS Cracovia 63 (32)
2018-2019 CFC genoa 19 (13)
2019-2020 AC Milan 36 (13)
2020– Hertha BSC 15 0(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2015 Poland U20 3 0(1)
2015-2017 Poland U21 14 0(2)
2018– Poland 10 0(5)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of November 16, 2019

Krzysztof Piątek [ ˈpjɔ̃tɛk ] (born July 1, 1995 in Dzierżoniów ) is a Polish football player . He started his career in low-class Polish football in 2012 and was promoted to professional leagues the following year. In 2018 he went to Italy for a year and a half , where he was active for two first division clubs. The Polish international has been under contract with Hertha BSC in the German Bundesliga since January 2020 .

Career

Beginnings and breakthrough at home

Piątek began his career with the clubs Niemczanka Niemcza , Dziewiątka Dzierżoniów and Lechia Dzierżoniów in his hometown. In 2012, at the age of 17, he first appeared in the first team of the latter club and played a total of six games in lower-class leagues. The following year he moved to Zagłębie Lubin . It was only at the end of the 2013/14 season that he made his debut in professional football: On May 18, 2014, he came on for his first appearance in the league match against KS Cracovia .

Zagłębie Lubin rose at the end of the season in the second-rate first division . The club succeeded in direct resurgence, with Piątek taking part in the first place of his team with eight goals. After promotion, he played in 33 league games and scored six goals. At the beginning of the 2016/17 season , Piątek played in five league games for Lubin and scored one goal. He then moved to league rivals KS Cracovia . In his first season for the club, he scored eleven goals in 27 games. In the following season , Piątek finally achieved the breakthrough when he met a total of 21 times in 36 league games.

Change to Serie A

Through his achievements, Piątek drew the attention of the Italian first division club CFC Genoa , who signed him for the 2018/19 season . He made his debut on August 11, 2018 in the third round of the Italian Cup against US Lecce in the starting lineup. He scored all the goals of the game in the first half in the 4-0 victory of his team; at the same time he managed a flawless hat trick with his third goal after 18 minutes of play . In the 60th minute he was substituted for Luca Mazzitelli . In the fourth round of the competition Piątek was successful again with two hits; his team had to admit defeat there, however, Virtus Entella on penalties. In the league competition he scored a total of nine goals in his first seven appearances - including at least one in each of these games - and ended the first half of the season with 13 goals from 19 games. He scored 19 goals in 21 competitive games for CFC Genoa.

On January 23, 2019, Piątek moved to league rivals AC Milan . He received a contract that ran until June 30, 2023. In the cup match against SSC Napoli on January 29, Piątek scored both goals in the 2-0 home win of his team and thus his first competitive goal for AC Milan, making his Team reached the semi-finals of the competition in which they failed at Lazio Rome . By the end of the season, Piątek was used in all of his club's games. He scored a total of eleven goals in 21 games and 30 in 42 games across clubs. The AC Milan finished fifth in the league. In the following season Piątek defended his regular place, but could not build on the performance of the previous one. The fluctuating performance of AC Milan, who only finished twelfth in the table after the first half of the season, also spread to Piątek, who only scored six points (five goals, one assist) in 20 games. After signing the 38-year-old Zlatan Ibrahimović at the turn of the year, Piątek also lost his regular place and only made two of five possible appearances in January.

Hertha BSC

At the end of January 2020 he moved to Germany in the Bundesliga for Hertha BSC ; he was "taken on long term". Under the head coach Jürgen Klinsmann and his successor Alexander Nouri , Piątek was a regular straight away. Until the season had to be interrupted in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic , he had played in 6 league games (5 times from the start) and scored one goal. Since Hertha was in the relegation battle at this point, Bruno Labbadia was signed as the new head coach during the almost two-month break . Under Labbadia, the team stabilized and ended the season in a secure midfield. In the first 5 games under Labbadia Piątek was only substituted on behind Vedad Ibišević , where he scored 2 goals as a joker. In the last 4 games of the 2019/20 season, the striker was in the starting line-up alongside or instead of Ibišević and was able to score another goal. In total, he came to 15 Bundesliga appearances (9 times from the start) in which he scored 4 goals.

National team

For Poland's U21s, Piątek was on the field at the 2017 European Championships , the team was eliminated in the group stage.

The striker has been in the A- squad since summer 2018 . With eight wins from ten qualifying games, he and Poland were the first in the group to reach the final round of the 2020 European Championship .

successes

Web links

Commons : Krzysztof Piątek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tomasz Wiśniowski: "Krzysztof Piątek był największym łobuzem w drużynie". Rewolwerowiec odkryty w Niemczy. In: eurosport.tvn24.pl. March 22, 2019, accessed May 20, 2020 (Polish).
  2. ^ Match report Zagłębie Lubin against KS Cracovia from May 18, 2014 ; de.soccerway.com, accessed September 28, 2018
  3. ↑ Match report CFC Genoa against US Lecce from August 11, 2018 ; transfermarkt.de, accessed on January 25, 2019
  4. ↑ Proof of achievement by Krzysztof Piątek for the CFC Genoa ; transfermarkt.de, accessed on January 31, 2020
  5. ^ Krzysztof Piątek joins AC Milan ; acmilan.com, published and accessed January 23, 2019
  6. ^ Match report AC Milan against SSC Napoli on January 29, 2019 ; kicker.de, accessed on January 30, 2019
  7. ^ Performance data from Krzysztof Piątek for AC Milan ; transfermarkt.de, accessed on January 31, 2020
  8. ↑ Comunicato ufficiale: Krzysztof Piątek. In: AC Milan . Associazione Calcio Milan SpA, January 30, 2020, accessed January 30, 2020 (Italian).
  9. ↑ Krzysztof Piatek moves to Hertha BSC. In: Hertha BSC . Hertha BSC GmbH & Co. KGaA, January 30, 2020, accessed on January 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Piątek, Krzysztof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Dzierżoniów , Poland