Åukasz FabiaÅ„ski
Łukasz Fabiański (2011)
Łukasz Fabiański [ wukaʃ fab aɲski ʲ ] ( born April 18, 1985 in Kostrzyn nad Odra, Poland) is a Polish football goalkeeper.
Career
In the club
The goalkeeper started his career in 1999 at Polonia Słubice. In 2002 he moved to MSP Szamotuły. About the provincial associations Lubuszanin Drezdenko, Sparta Brodnica and Mieszko Gniezno he arrived in 2004 as a reserve goalkeeper for Lech Poznan. During the winter break, he went to Legia Warsaw, where he was first-choice goalkeeper at the start of the 2005/2006 season, after Artur Boruc has moved to Celtic Glasgow. Fabiański missed a single minute throughout the season and was selected alongside winning the championship and the best goalkeeper in the Polish league.
For the season 2007/ 08 he moved to the English Premier League club Arsenal FC. He was there, however, behind Manuel Almunia only goalkeeper at the London giants. Nevertheless, he came in the season to use one without the two positioned in front of him goalkeeper would have been injured as coach Arsène Wenger put him in contention for the goalkeeper position between Lehmann and Almunia on the 36th game day. Then he kept coming to sporadic operations, but could not establish permanently in the port of Arsenal is. As in the 2010/11 season, the then goalkeeper Manuel Almunia injured, Fabiański took his place and completed competitions 20 games. However, during this time he was injured also and was replaced by Wojciech Szczęsny, who is goalkeeper of Arsenal and also its competitor in the national team since then.
In the National Team
In the Polish national team of the former Under-21 international made his debut on 28 March 2006 against Saudi Arabia in Riyadh. The former national team coach Paweł Janas nominated him as the third goalkeeper for the Polish World Cup squad in 2006. Among the last coach of Poland, Leo Beenhakker, he's even become the second national goalkeeper behind Artur Boruc and was in the squad of the Polish national team at the European Championships 2008 in Austria and Switzerland. In this tournament, he came, however, as at the World Cup 2006, not used. A total of twenty Fabianski has played more matches for the Polish national team.
Achievements
- Polish Champion ( 1): 2006
- World Cup participants ( 1): 2006
- European Football Cup ( 1): 2008