Piszczek with Hertha BSC in 2009 |
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Łukasz Piszczek | ||
| Date of birth | 3 June 1985 | ||
| Place of birth | Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Right back | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Borussia Dortmund | ||
| Number | 26 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| LKS Goczałkowice-Zdrój | |||
| 2001–2004 | Gwarek Zabrze | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2004–2010 | Hertha BSC | 68 | (3) |
| 2004–2007 | → Zagłębie Lubin (loan) | 70 | (15) |
| 2010– | Borussia Dortmund | 46 | (2) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2008– | Poland | 21 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14:38, 23 October 2011 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). |
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Łukasz Piszczek (Polish pronunciation: [ˈwukaʂ ˈpiʂtʂɛk]; born 3 June 1985) is a Polish footballer who plays for German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund as a right back, having previously played for Hertha BSC and Zagłębie Lubin. He has been capped by Poland at international level.
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In 2001 Piszczek joined Gwarek Zabrze with whom he won the 2003 Polish youth championship.[1] In 2004 he became the top scorer (along with Turk Ali Öztürk) of U-19 European Championships, after which he was signed by Hertha BSC and immediately loaned out to Zagłębie Lubin. With Zagłębie, he won the league championship during the 2006-07 season. At Zagłębie, he played mainly as a left winger in 4-3-3 formation (with Wojciech Łobodziński on the right wing and Michał Chałbiński in the center), although he has often been utilized as a centre forward. He scored 11 goals in 2006-07 season, being the club's second best scorer after Chałbiński (13 goals).
In the fall of 2007 Hertha recalled the player. He scored his first goal in the Bundesliga on 26 April 2008 to earn a point against Hannover 96.
He missed most of the first half of the 2008-09 season as the result of a hip problem that eventually required surgery.[2] He began training again in February 2009 but in March suffered a setback due to a minor knee injury.[3] He returned to Bundesliga action in April. At Hertha, Piszczek initially played as a right midfielder or on the left wing, but in his second season he started to appear as a right back, after injury to Arne Friedrich. After Friedrich recovered, Piszczek lost his place in the starting line-up, but reclaimed it in 2009-10, when Friedrich moved to centre back position.
On 19 May 2010, he moved to Borussia Dortmund on a free transfer, signing a contract until June 2013.[4] On 26 July 2011, Piszczek signed a contract extension to keep him at the club until June 2016.[5]
Piszczek made his first appearance for the Poland national football team in a friendly versus Estonia on 3 February 2007. On 6 June 2008, he was added to the Polish squad for Euro 2008, to replace the injured Jakub Błaszczykowski. He made one appearance, coming on a sub against Germany, but was injured in the training session for the next game and took no further part in the tournament.[6]
On 29 July 2011, the PZPN imposed on Piszczek a six-month suspension for participation in the fixing of a 2006 Cracovia match in which he did not play.[7] In September 2011 the suspension was cancelled.
Łukasz Piszczek was raised in Goczałkowice-Zdrój. His father, the coach of the local football club, decided to bring him to one of the training sessions at the age of about 7-8. His brother, Tomasz, was also involved in football.[1]
He married his fiancee Ewa in June 2009.[8] The couple's daughter, Sara, was born on March 3, 2011.[9]
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