Wojciech Szczęsny

Wojciech Szczęsny ( 2012)

Wojciech Tomasz Szczęsny [ vɔi̯t ͡ɕɛx ʂʈ͡ʂɛsnɨ ] ( born April 18, 1990 in Warsaw, Poland ) is a Polish footballer. He is the son of former Polish international goalkeeper Maciej Szczęsny and current television commentator.

Club career

Wojciech Szczęsny started playing football in his home town of Warsaw in Warsaw Agrykola and then played in the youth team of Legia Warsaw. In 2006, he joined the youth academy of English club Arsenal FC, for the first team in the League, he came 2009 Cup match against West Bromwich Albion (2-0 ) to its first use. End of 2009, Szczęsny was loaned for six months at the Brentford FC, which plays in the Football League One. He made his debut on 21 November 2009, when he stood on the 17th match day against FC Walsall, between the posts. By the end of the lending agreement, he played 28 games and then returned to Arsenal. At first he was only in lots of the FA Cup for use. Due to the injury to Manuel Almunia and his representative in goal for the Gunners, Łukasz Fabiański was placed increasingly on the services Szczesny during the season. His debut in the Premier League he gave on 13 December 2010, when he stood against Manchester United, between the posts on the 17th match day, and in the Champions League on 16 February 2011, when he knockout round first leg against FC Barcelona, ​​were used. After he delivered the 2010/11 flawless performances as well as some spectacular parades during the second half of the season, he now acts as a goalkeeper for Arsenal. At the end of the season he was fourth with Arsenal and thereby created a place in the Champions League qualifiers. There he was in the second leg against Udinese Calcio parry a penalty from Antonio Di Natale and thus secured Arsenal a place in the Champions League group stage. Otherwise, he played with Arsenal a good season and finished third in the table, which one again einzog.In in the Champions League group stage of the Champions League season 2013/2014 he cashed in the second round against FC Bayern Munich after a foul on Arjen Robben Red Card.

National

For the Polish U-20 national football team Wojciech Szczęsny played six games and took part in the 2007 U- 20 World Cup in Canada. In the same year he was also the European squad at the UEFA CAF Meridian Cup. Then he came in the Polish U -21 used and played with this in the European Championship qualifiers. On 18 November 2009 he made ​​his debut in a friendly against Canada for the senior team and stopped after he came in to replace Tomasz Kuszczak at half-time, 1-0 victory firmly. Then he came in eight test matches for use and was then appointed by Franciszek Smuda in the national team squad for the Euro 2012 in their own country. He was in the starting lineup for the first group game against Greece, however, saw in the 68 minutes after a foul on Dimitrios Salpingidis the red card. Thus, the EM for Szczęsny was already finished. For the next group game against Russia, he was locked and in the final group game against the Czech Republic Przemysław Tytoń was preferred.

Achievements

• Premier Academy League ( 1): 2009
• FA Youth Cup ( 1): 2009