Goalkeeper Wojciech Kowalewski

Wojciech Kowalewski is a Polish football player, 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 inthe 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 spent 226 bouts:

1996/97 - "Wigry" (Poland);
1997-2000, 2001/02 - "Legia" (Poland);
2001 - "Discobolia" (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. During 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 started in the 10-year-oldage. 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 onefrom the grandees of the Polish football of the Warsaw team "Legia", moves to the capital. In "Legia" as a young promising 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.

Kovalevski started the season of 2001/2002goalkeeper 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, studied at the Faculty of Economics of the Institute.

Lost the post number 1 in Shakhtar Wojciech on September 172002. On this day, after the crushing defeat of the miners from the Viennese "Austriya", the main culprit for the failure was the goalkeeper of the Donetsk team. Yan Lashtuvka settled in the gate, and Wojciech Kowalewski began to look for himself a new team on the sly.

In 2003, he signed a contract with Moscowclub "Spartak". For the capital team goalkeeper spoke for five seasons. During this period, Wojciech has become a stronghold of stability and reliability for Spartak. In 2004 and 2005, he was recognized as the best player in the capital club. In the 2005 season, his magnificent game allowed the red-and-white to win the silver medals of the Russian championship, in connection with which the management of the team presented the goalkeeper with a Hummer car.

Wojciech’s trouble was thatthroughout his football career, he was not very stable. Having played perfectly the season or two, he experienced an inevitable recession, because of which Lehi, Shakhtar and Spartak suffered at one time.

In late 2006, Wojciech Kowalewski lost his seat.in the main part of the national team. He was replaced by new club goalkeeper Stipe Pletikosa. In 2008, Wojciech returns to Poland. Here he, having proved himself as a good goalkeeper of the “Crown” club, enters the application as the third goalkeeper of the national team to participate in the 2008 European Championship. After the completion of the tournament, he goes to the Greek club "Heraklis". After playing three seasons in the championship of Greece (25 matches, 23 goals conceded), Kowalewski returns to Russia. He tries himself in the team “Siberia”, but conceding 32 goals in 14 fights, put up for transfer.

The goalkeeper was finishing his playing career in modestGreek club "Anorthosis". Here he won one game of the championship of Greece and tied it up with great football. He played his farewell match in Poland on June 15, 2013.

Summing up the goalkeeper’s club careerIt must be admitted that the Wojciech Kowalewski - Spartak alliance was the most favorable and successful. In Moscow, he was loved, he was the idol of fans of the Moscow team, here he was honored to play in the match for the national team of the legionaries of the Russian championship.

Trophies and achievements

Over the years of speeches, Wojciech Kowalewski becamethe champion and winner of the national cups of Poland and Ukraine, the silver medalist and finalist of the Cup and Super Cup of Russia. In 2005 he entered the list of “33 best football players of the Russian Championship”. In 2004/05, he was the owner of the Golden Boar Award.

What does Wojciech Kowalewski do now? 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. At first it was located in Suwalki, the home of Wojciech, after the project was developed in other cities. His goal is to find football nuggets in the lower leagues of Polish football.