Goalkeeper Wojciech Kowalewski

Wojciech Kowalewski is a Polish footballer, the goalkeeper who gained the most fame thanks to appearances in the Donetsk Shakhtar Donetsk, Spartak Moscow and the Polish national team.

Dossier

Wojciech Kowalewski was born on May 11, 1977 in the city of Bialystok (Poland). Height 188 cm, weight 87 kg. A citizen of Poland. Years of appearances in big football - 1996-2011. The game position on the football field is the goalkeeper.

Statistics of speeches

Wojciech Kowalewski played in the football championships of four European countries (Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Greece) for 9 different teams. During the period of club performances, he held 226 bouts:

• 1996/97 - "Wigry" (Poland);
• 1997-2000, 2001/02 - "Legia" (Poland);
• 2001 - "Discoholy" (Poland);
• 2002/03 - Shakhtar (Ukraine);
• 2003/07 - Spartak (Russia);
• 2008 - Crown (Poland);
• 2008/10 - Iraklis (Greece);
• 2010 - "Siberia" (Russia);
• 2011 - Anorthosis (Greece).

In the national team of Poland Wojciech Kowalewski (photo in the article) began to be involved since 2002. Over the period of 2002-2009 he played 11 fights for the main team of the country, in which he missed 4 goals.

Stages of football path

To play football Wojciech began at the age of 10. The first team was the club "Wigry" (Suwalki), where the boy brought his best friend. And since all the guys in the team were two years older, and accordingly, and stronger, then a puny teenager was identified in the gate. Here in the team "Wigry" and began to comprehend the basics of goalkeeper skill Wojciech Kowalewski.

In 1998, Wojciech, having received an offer from one of the Polish soccer grandees of the Warsaw team, "Legia", moved to the capital. In "Legia" as a young prospective goalkeeper, he stayed on the bench for three years, after which he was leased to the club "Discobolia" to acquire a game practice. Here things went cheerful. For the new team, he played 15 matches and managed to declare himself as a goalkeeper with certain prospects.

Season 2001/2002 Kovalevski began the main goalkeeper of "Legia". He played 16 duels of the Polish championship, after which he moved to one of the richest clubs in Eastern Europe - Shakhtar Donetsk. Here he took place as a goalkeeper, won his first club trophies, mastered the Russian language fluently.

By the way, Wojciech, unlike many Brazilian (and not only) Shakhtar's legionaries, has a decent education, and accordingly, is a man erudite. He once graduated with a gold medal school, was trained at the Faculty of Economics of the Institute.

Lost the post number 1 in Shakhtar Wojciech on September 17, 2002. On this day, after the crushing defeat of the miners from the Viennese "Austriya", the main culprit of failure was the goalkeeper of the Donetsk team. Ian Lashtuvka settled in the gate, and Wojciech Kowalewski slowly began to look for a new team.

In 2003, he signed a contract with the Moscow club "Spartak". For the metropolitan team goalkeeper spoke for five seasons. During this period Wojciech turned into a bulwark of stability and reliability for "Spartacus." In 2004 and 2005 he was recognized as the best football player of the capital club. In the 2005 season, his magnificent game allowed the red-and-white to win silver medals at the Russian Championship, and in this connection the leadership of the team gave the goalkeeper the Hammer car.

The trouble with Wojciech was that during his entire football career he was not stable. Having played irreproachably for a season or two, he experienced an inevitable decline, because of which at one time suffered and "Legia", and "Shakhtar", and "Spartacus."

In late 2006, Wojciech Kowalewski lost his place in the main part of the national team. He was replaced by the new goalkeeper Stipe Pletikosa. In 2008, Wojciech returned to Poland. Here he, not badly recommended himself as the goalkeeper of the club "Corona", falls into the application as the third goalkeeper of the team to participate in the European Championships in 2008. After the tournament is over, he moves to the Greek club Iraklis. Having played three seasons in the championship of Greece (25 matches, 23 conceded goals), Kovalevski returns to Russia. He tries himself in the team "Siberia", but conceding 32 balls in 14 fights, is put on a transfer.

Finished the playing career goalkeeper in the modest Greek club "Anorthosis". Here he played one match of the championship of Greece and started with a big football. His farewell match he played in Poland on June 15, 2013.

Bridging the line under the goalkeeper's club career, one must admit that the most favorable and successful was the union "Wojciech Kowalewski -" Spartacus. " In Moscow, he was loved, he was the idol of the fans of the capital's team, he was given the honor to play in the match for the team of the legionnaires of the championship of Russia.

Trophies and achievements

During the years of performances Wojciech Kowalewski became the champion and the owner of the national Cups of Poland and Ukraine, the silver medalist and finalist of the Cup and the Super Cup of Russia. In 2005 he was on the list of "33 best players of the Russian championship". In 2004/05 he was the owner of the Golden Boar award.

What is Wojciech Kowalewski doing today? Where does it live, what does it do? Judging by the interview of the goalkeeper himself, in 2012 he opened a children's football academy in Poland. First it was located in Suwalki, in the homeland of Wojciech, after the project was developed in other cities. His goal is to find football nuggets in the lower leagues of Polish football.