Wojciech Kowalewski

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Wojciech Kowalewski
Personal information
Full name Wojciech Kowalewski
Date of birth May 11, 1977 (1977-05-11) (age 31)
Place of birth    Białystok, Poland
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club Korona Kielce
Number —
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1997–2000
2001
2001
2002–2003
2003–2007
2008–		 Legia Warsaw
Dyskobolia Grodzisk
Legia Warsaw
Shakhtar Donetsk
Spartak Moscow
Korona Kielce		 01 (0)
15 (0)
16 (0)
19 (0)
94 (0)
00 (0)   
National team2
2002– Poland 10 (0)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 09:31, 3 February 2008 (UTC).
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of 13:47, 18 January 2008 (UTC).
* Appearances (Goals)

Wojciech Kowalewski (pron. IPA: [ˈvɔjtɕɛx kɔvaˈlɛvski]; (born 11 May 1977 in Białystok), is a Polish football goalkeeper who plays for Korona Kielce.

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[edit] Club career

Kowalewski made his top-flight debut with Wigry Suwałki during the 1996–97 season, but it was not until 2001–02, after a loan spell with second division side Dyskobolia Grodzisk, that he finally established himself with Legia. Midway through the season he moved to FC Shakhtar Donetsk and only conceded once in nine league games as Shakhtar stormed to the Ukrainian title for the first time. In 2003 he moved to Spartak Moscow where he played for several years as first-choice keeper, even serving as vice-captain. In late 2007, having lost his place to Stipe Pletikosa, he requested to leave the club. In December 2007 Spartak agreed to terminate his contract. He had not played for Spartak in over a year.

On 17 January 2008 it was announced that Kowalewski had started a trial period with Premier League club Reading.[1] On 3 February 2008, Kowalewski signed a three-year deal with Polish club Korona Kielce.[2]

[edit] International career

Kowalewski made his Poland debut in February 2002, but made only a handful of appearances before being recalled to the side at the start of Euro 2008 qualifying. He was replaced by Artur Boruc after picking up a second yellow against Portugal on 11 October 2006.

Kowalewski replaced Tomasz Kuszczak in Poland's Euro 2008 squad following the Manchester United goalkeeper's back injury.[3]

[edit] Trivia

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  • Kowalewski has a reputation of being an excellent penalty-saver, once breaking FC Torpedo Moskva's Vladimir Leonchenko's streak of 13 successful spot-kicks.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Polish international joins on trial", readingfc.co.uk, 2008-01-17. Retrieved on 2008-01-17. 
  2. ^ "Kowalewski w Koronie", Korona Kielce, 2008-02-03. Retrieved on 2008-02-03. (Polish) 
  3. ^ "Poland keeper Kuszczak out of European Championship", International Herald Tribune, 2008-06-06. Retrieved on 2007-07-04. 

[edit] External links

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1 Boruc • 2 Jop • 3 Wawrzyniak • 4 Golański • 5 Dudka • 6 Bąk • 7 Smolarek • 8 Krzynówek • 9 Żurawski • 10 Garguła • 11 Saganowski • 12 Kowalewski • 13 Wasilewski • 14 Żewłakow • 15 Pazdan • 16 Piszczek • 17 Łobodziński • 18 Lewandowski • 19 Murawski • 20 Guerreiro • 21 Zahorski • 22 Fabiański • 23 Kokoszka • Coach: Beenhakker
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Persondata
NAME Kowalewski, Wojciech
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Footballer
DATE OF BIRTH 1977-09-11
PLACE OF BIRTH Białystok, Poland
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH