Tomasz Wałdoch
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| Full name | Tomasz Wojciech Wałdoch | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 10 May 1971 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Gdańsk, Poland | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Defender | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| 1986–1988 | Stoczniowiec Gdańsk | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1988–1995 | Górnik Zabrze | 152 | (8) | |||||||||
| 1995–1999 | VfL Bochum | 133 | (8) | |||||||||
| 1999–2006 | Schalke 04 | 142 | (13) | |||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Jagiellonia Białystok | 5 | (0) | |||||||||
| Total | 432 | (29) | ||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||
| 1991–2002 | Poland | 74 | (2) | |||||||||
| Teams managed | ||||||||||||
| 2006–2008 | Schalke 04 U17 (Assistant coach) | |||||||||||
| 2008 | Schalke 04 II (Assistant coach) | |||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Schalke 04 U17 (Assistant coach) | |||||||||||
| 2010 | Górnik Zabrze (Director of Sport) | |||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Schalke 04 U17 | |||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | Schalke 04 Jugend | |||||||||||
| 2014– | Schalke 04 II (Assistant coach) | |||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | ||||||||||||
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Tomasz Wałdoch (Polish pronunciation: [ˈtɔmaʂ ˈvawdɔx]) (born 10 May 1971) is a retired Polish footballer. He holds German citizenship.
He had a 10-year international career, where he often captained the side, including at the 2002 World Cup. His club career was mostly spent in Germany with VfL Bochum and Schalke 04.
Club career
Waldoch has played for Górnik Zabrze, VfL Bochum, Schalke 04 and Jagiellonia Białystok.
International career
He played for the Polish national team, for which he earned 74 caps. Wałdoch was a participant at the 1992 Summer Olympics, where Poland won the silver medal,[1] and was the captain of the Polish team for the 2002 World Cup.
International goals
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | ||||||||
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| 1. | 23 September 1992 | Stadion Miejski, Poznań, Poland |  Turkey | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification | ||||||||
| 2. | 15 March 1995 | Miejski Stadion Sportowy "KSZO", Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland |  Lithuania | 2–0 | 4–1 | International Friendly | ||||||||
| Correct as of 4 July 2017[2] | ||||||||||||||
Honours
Club
- VfL Bochum
- Winner: 1995/96
- Schalke 04
- Runner-up: 2001
Coaching career
On 1 July 2006, he was named as the new assistant coach of the FC Schalke 04 U17 team. From 15 April 2008 until 30 June 2008, he was the assistant coach at Schalke 04 II. On 11 November 2009, it was announced that he would become the temporary Assistant coach of Poland national football team, assisting Franciszek Smuda.[3] He has since been replaced in the role by his former teammate Jacek Zielinski. On 20 April 2010, he was named as the new Director of Sport of his first professional club Górnik Zabrze.[4] He left later that year, in November. He was then coach of the Schalke 04 U17 team from July 2011 to June 2012. From July 2012 to June 2014, he was the coach of the Schalke 04 Jugend team. Currently, he is the assistant coach of the Schalke 04 II team for the second time, serving under Jürgen Luginger.
Personal life
Wałdoch is married and has four children - two sons and two daughters. His son Kamil (born 4 July 1992) currently plays for fourth tier club FC Kray in Essen.[5][6]
References
- ↑ "Tomasz Wałdoch Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference. Retrieved 29 October 2009.
- ↑ "Football PLAYER: Tomasz Wałdoch". eu-football.info. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
- ↑ Polen: Tomasz Waldoch "Ich habe sofort spontan zugesagt"
- ↑ Sport: Spektakularny powrót
- ↑ "1. Mannschft: Kamil Waldoch" (in German). FC Kray. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
- ↑ Kamil Waldoch kommt von Schalke 04
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tomasz Wałdoch. |
- Tomasz Wałdoch at 90minut.pl (in Polish)
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