Katarzyna Kiedrzynek

Katarzyna Kiedrzynek
Kiedrzynek with Paris Saint-Germain in 2015
Personal information
Date of birth (1991-03-19) 19 March 1991 (age 33)
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 10 (0)
International career
2009–2024 Poland 64 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 4 October 2024

Katarzyna Kiedrzynek (IPA: [kataˈʐɨna kʲɛdˈʐɨnɛk]; born 19 March 1991) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Première Ligue club Paris Saint-Germain.[1][2] She had a 15-year international career with the Poland women's national team.

Club career

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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.

International career

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Kiedrzynek has been part of the Poland national team since 2009. She made her debut on 19 September 2009 in a 4–1 win against Ukraine.[9] She announced her retirement from the national team on 9 May 2024.[9]

Honours

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Paris Saint-Germain

VfL Wolfsburg

Individual

References

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  1. ^ "Foot Feminin : PSG to face Frankfurt in the WCL Final". French Football Weekly. 27 April 2015.
  2. ^ "UEFA Women's Champions League 2015 - Paris-Wolfsburg – UEFA.com". Uefa.com. 26 April 2015.
  3. ^ à 00h00, Par Franck Gineste Le 18 avril 2015 (17 April 2015). "Et dire qu'elle ne voulait pas jouer dans les buts". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 26 May 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Duret, Sebastien. "D1 – La gardienne KIEDRZYNEK prolonge jusqu'en 2018 avec le PSG". Footofeminin.fr : le football au féminin (in French). Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  5. ^ "French D1 Championship 2013–2014 – 12th day – Muret-PSG 0–9".
  6. ^ "La Pologne, jeune et ambitieuse – Les Bleues | Foot d'elles". 21 June 2015. Archived from the original on 21 June 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  7. ^ UEFA.com. "Katarzyna Kiedrzynek | Wolfsburg | UEFA Women's Champions League". UEFA.com (in German). Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  8. ^ "Neue Torhüterin von PSG: Kiedrzynek verstärkt die Wölfe". kicker (in German). Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  9. ^ a b "Katarzyna Kiedrzynek kończy reprezentacyjną karierę" (in Polish). 9 May 2024. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
  10. ^ "Football féminin : le Paris-Saint-Germain détrône Lyon et gagne la Coupe de France". Le Monde. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
  11. ^ "LE PSG PUISSANCE 4" (in French). 4 May 2024. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
  12. ^ "Poznaliśmy laureatów plebiscytu tygodnika "Piłka Nożna"" (in Polish). Polish Football Association. 6 February 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  13. ^ "Lewandowski zawodnikiem 2016 roku w plebiscycie "Piłki Nożnej"" (in Polish). 5 February 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  14. ^ "Plebiscyt "Piłki Nożnej": Lewandowski ponownie niepokonany". sport.tvp.pl (in Polish). 3 February 2018. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  15. ^ a b "Trophées de la D1 féminine : les lauréats". 18 May 2016. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
  16. ^ a b "Trophées de la D1 féminine : les lauréates". 23 May 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
  17. ^ "Dzsenifer MAROZSAN élue meilleure joueuse, toutes les lauréates". 17 April 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
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