Summary
Katarzyna Kiedrzynek (IPA: [kataˈʐɨna kʲɛdˈʐɨnɛk]; born 19 March 1991) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Division 1 Féminine club Paris Saint-Germain and the Poland national team.[1][2]
 Kiedrzynek with Paris Saint-Germain in 2015 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Katarzyna Kiedrzynek | ||
| Date of birth | 19 March 1991 | ||
| Place of birth | Lublin, Poland | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Paris Saint-Germain | ||
| Number | 1 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2004–2007 | Motor Lublin | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2007–2013 | Górnik Łęczna | ||
| 2013–2020 | Paris Saint-Germain | 84 | (0) |
| 2020–2023 | VfL Wolfsburg | 19 | (0) |
| 2022–2023 | VfL Wolfsburg II | 2 | (0) |
| 2023– | Paris Saint-Germain | 7 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2009– | Poland | 52 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 February 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 31 December 2019 | |||
Career edit
Club edit
As a teenager, Katarzyna Kiedrzynek played handball and football, as a striker at first, then a goalkeeper. After the two sports could no longer be reconciled in terms of time, she decided to play football. From 2010 to the summer of 2013, she appeared for Górnik Łęczna in the Polish Ekstraliga.[3] During this time Kiedrzynek also became a national team player. For the 2013/14 season she moved to the French first division club Paris Saint-Germain. Her coach Farid Benstiti had already become aware of her during his time as the Russian national coach during an international match against Poland.[4] Her debut in the Ligaelf took place at the beginning of the second half of the season in December 2013 with a 9–0 win at bottom AS Muret.[5] With Paris she finished in 2014 – at that time in the hierarchy of goalkeepers only in third place – and 2015 behind Olympique Lyon in second place in Division 1 Féminine.[6] In May 2014 she was in the starting line-up for the French Cup final. She became the undisputed number one goalkeeper at PSG in her second season after beating Karima Benameur and the newly signed Ann-Katrin Berger. In the 2014/15 season, Kiedrzynek played in all nine Champions League games for the Parisians.[7]
Benstiti saw her qualities above all in the fact that she is willing to constantly work on herself, and also praises her "air superiority" in the penalty area and her handling of the ball with her feet. Kiedrzynek remained the first choice even under Benstiti's successors Patrice Lair and Olivier Echouafni, although she had a strong new competitor, Christiane Endler, since 2017. In the 2019/20 season, the coach mostly gave preference to Endler in league games. In the summer of 2020, Kiedrzynek therefore joined VfL Wolfsburg, with a contract of three years.[8] At the start of the Bundesliga, she was in goal for Wolfsburg in a 3–0 win against SGS Essen.
National team edit
Kiedrzynek has been part of the Poland national team since 2011. In 2011 and 2013 she guarded the Polish goal against her "second sporting homeland" France in two friendlies.
Honours edit
- Paris Saint-Germain
- Coupe de France Féminine: 2017–18
- VfL Wolfsburg
References edit
- ^ "Foot Feminin : PSG to face Frankfurt in the WCL Final". French Football Weekly.
- ^ "UEFA Women's Champions League 2015 - Paris-Wolfsburg – UEFA.com". Uefa.com. 26 April 2015.
- ^ à 00h00, Par Franck Gineste Le 18 avril 2015 (2015-04-17). "Et dire qu'elle ne voulait pas jouer dans les buts". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-05-26.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Duret, Sebastien. "D1 – La gardienne KIEDRZYNEK prolonge jusqu'en 2018 avec le PSG". Footofeminin.fr : le football au féminin (in French). Retrieved 2023-05-26.
- ^ "French D1 Championship 2013–2014 – 12th day – Muret-PSG 0–9".
- ^ "La Pologne, jeune et ambitieuse – Les Bleues | Foot d'elles". 2015-06-21. Archived from the original on 2015-06-21. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
- ^ UEFA.com. "Katarzyna Kiedrzynek | Wolfsburg | UEFA Women's Champions League". UEFA.com (in German). Retrieved 2023-05-26.
- ^ "Neue Torhüterin von PSG: Kiedrzynek verstärkt die Wölfe". kicker (in German). Retrieved 2023-05-26.
External links edit
- PSG player profile
- Soccerdonna.de (in German)
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