Kazimierz Sidorczuk
Kazimierz Sidorczuk ( born March 4, 1967 in Szczecin, Poland ) is a Polish former football goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach active at SK Sturm Graz in the Austrian Football Bundesliga.
Career
Goalkeeper career
His career as a professional goalkeeper Sidorczuk began in 1985 in his native Poland, where he came to his first club Dąb Dębno in Dębno, in which he stood until 1986 under contract. Later followed by a further commitment in Kostrzyn nad Odra, when he joined the resident football club Celuloza Kostrzyn. From 1986 to 1989 Kostrzyn nad Odra, he moved in 1989 to his first professional club Lech Poznan, where he came to a total of 115 missions until his departure in 1993 and it was able to celebrate three championships and winning the Polish Supercup.
In 1993 he transferred after Pniewy to TS Tygodnik Miliarder Pniewy, where he came in only one season, a field that graduated five games. In 1994 he spent a further nine games after Lubin to playing there Zagłębie Lubin, before moving again in 1994 to another club. This was Warta Poznań, where he came to a total of eleven stakes, but his talent was placed more and more in the shade.
As Sidorczuk the club still left during the season, took him Wisła Płock Płock on the Vistula River. For the football club he played until his departure in 1995 in 17 games. His achievements in the gate of Wisła Płock were correspondingly good that the 1995 was in the top Polish league, the Ekstraklasa, playing club OKS 1945 Olsztyn took him into the team. With the club he could celebrate the greatest success in its history, a sixth place at the end of season 1995 /96 apply. After his departure in 1997 Sidorczuk could refer to 48 inserts for the football club.
The time at SK Sturm
In the 1996/97 season, a jump to Austria in the highest Austrian league, the Premier League came to playing there traditional club SK Sturm Graz. The Blackie he was next to the winning three championships and one Super Cup title at Lech Poznan, who celebrate by far the biggest success in his career. In the 1996/97 season he won with the team the OFB Cup and was also Austrian Supercup Finalist.
1997/98 he was with the SK Sturm champion with a record margin of 19 points ahead of second place SK Rapid Wien. This season Sidorczuk was in 35 of 36 games in goal for the Grazer, only in a game he was replaced by Roland Goriupp. In OFB Cup you failed in the final narrowly to the SV Ried, but could be in the final of the Super Cup revenge on the Riedern and outclassed them 4-0. Other successes Sidorczuk celebrate in the following season 1998/99.
With his club he managed the Triple Master, Winners' Cup and Supercup winner. Furthermore, even qualified to be in the same season for the UEFA Champions League. More Champions League starts followed 1999/2000 and 2000/ 01, in the latter he reached with his team the second round of the 16 best teams in Europe. In the 1999/2000 season with the citizens of Graz Sidorczuk was runner-up. In the 2001 / 02 season, the club was able to repeat this placement and also missed winning the OFB Cup and the Supercup where you just failed both times in the final. Overall Sidorczuk completed 140 games for SK Sturm Graz.
Last stop: Kapfenberg SV
In 2002 moved Sidorczuk, the former best goalkeeper of Austria, to Kapfenberg for KSV in the second-class First League.
A stir he made in the 2003/04 season when he scored a goal through a wide Committee from his own penalty in the away match against FC Wacker Innsbruck.
End of the season 2005/ 06 ended his active career as Sidorczuk football goalkeeper, after exactly 100 appearances for Kapfenberg. His goals scored against Wacker Innsbruck was the only one to remain in his career.
Coaching career
In 2006 it asked Franco Foda, the then coach of SK Sturm Graz to come as a goalkeeper coach of his former team. Sidorczuk accepted the offer and has since Goalkeeper Coach of Blackie.
Internationally
Sidorczuk came to 14 matches for the Polish national team. His debut in the national team he celebrated on 19 December 1990 in a 2-1 away win against Greece.
Private
Prior to his career as a football goalkeeper, he learned the craft of confectioner.
In February 2001, the Council of Ministers Sidorczuk received the Austrian citizenship and became a dual citizenship because he also has the Polish nationality.
Sidorczuk is married and father of two children.
Achievements
- 5x Champion (3x with Lech Poznan, 2x with Sturm Graz )
- 2x Cup Winner with Sturm Graz
- 1x Supercup winner with Sturm Graz
- 1x Supercup winner Lech Poznan
- Three-time Champions League participation with Sturm Graz (2000/ 01 reaching the second round of the 16 best teams in Europe )