Thomas Kaminski
Thomas Kaminski (born 23 October 1992 in Dendermonde ) is a Belgian football player of Polish descent who plays on the position of the goalkeeper. He stands at the Belgian Erstdivisionär RSC Anderlecht under contract. Due to the origin of his father he owns next to the Belgian and Polish citizenship.
Career
In the club
Youth (2000-2008)
Kaminski began his active career as a soccer goalkeeper in 2000 in the youth department of Zellik Sports in Zellik, a small suburb of the Belgian municipality of aces. There he was active until 2002 in various junior sections. As Zellik sport in 2002 with the KSV aces and merged with the new name FC occurred Asse Zellik 2002, Kaminski held the club loyalty and completed by 2004 Games in the various youth leagues. In 2004 he moved to the Walloon Region, in which he was taken in the junior AFC Tubize. After almost a year in Tubize he moved to Flanders in the youth department of KAA Gent. There he played, among others, alongside his twin brother Matthias, who acted as a central defender in the youth teams
Germinal Beerschot (2008-2011)
After good performances in youth he joined after three years in 2008 to Antwerp for active there club Germinal Beerschot. There he stood first in the youth team squad of the club and came for them in different leagues used. After he was first ordered to the 2008/09 season in the professional squad, Kaminski came on May 8, 2009 - exactly one year after the death of striker talent and former Germinal Beerschot player François Sterchele - at the age of 16 years and 197 days his pro debut when he came on in the penultimate round of the season in a 3-1 home win over the KV Mechelen. In the game he came from the 90th minute for Anderlecht on loan Silvio Proto used. Eight days later, Kaminski made his debut over the full 90 minutes of playing time. In the away game against his former youth club AFC Tubize he brought good performance and only had to reach behind himself as the opponent scored on a penalty kick. In November 2009, Kaminski signed a long-term contract until 2015. Afterwards he was initially still behind the Macedonian national team Tomislav Pacovski the second choice in the gate of Germinal Beershot. But the end of the 2009/10 season he was used in four games of the play-offs and thus made the breakthrough. In the 2010/11 season Kaminski was goalkeeper of Beerschot and could keep up with the club, the class despite 46 goals against.
Lions and Anderlecht (2011 -present)
For the 2011/12 season Kaminski joined the Oud- Heverlee Leuven. There, he solved relatively quickly Yves Lenaerts as goalkeeper from and denied in the following 25 league games. He rose in the regular season with the team and yet almost reached the Europa League playoffs. He completed this with the Oud-Heverlee Leuven from a table second behind Cercle Bruges and thus failed to qualify just barely. During the summer break, he joined the reigning champions, RSC Anderlecht.
National
His first international appearance came Kaminski on September 20, 2008, a U-17 international against peers from Liechtenstein. The away game in Vaduz, which was held on the occasion of qualifying for the U-17 European Championship in 2009, it ended in a 5-2 victory for the Belgians. Overall, he graduated to 2009 four caps for the Belgian U-17 juniors. From 2009 to 2011, the young goalkeeper was regular in the squad of the Belgian U-19 national team. For this, he completed twelve matches, including, among others, in qualifying for the U-19 European Championship 2010 in France. This he missed, but failed to qualify for the U-19 Championship 2011 in Romania. During the tournament he played in all three group matches of the Belgians and eventually retired as a Table from. A little later he was against Greece its debut at the U- 21 team and lost 1-0 through a penalty by Ioannis Potouridis. In May 2013 he was nominated for the 2014 World Cup qualifying match against the USA, but not used.