Tomasz Lewandowski

Central Defender - Gornik Zabrze U18
5 Jul 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Tomasz Lewandowski

126 Edition

The Gornik Zabrze Chronicle

25 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Tomasz Loska keeps Gornik Zabrze in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

The wait goes on for Gornik Zabrze

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

A falling-out at Gornik Zabrze

Thodoros Tsirigotis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Lukáš Sadílek falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Motor Lublin take the points off Gornik Zabrze

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Tomasz Lewandowski for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Gornik Zabrze will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

The dugout

Arkadiusz Jozwiak answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

No hiding place for Toni Ramón

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Toni Ramón, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Roberto Massimo

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
104 Edition

The Gornik Zabrze Chronicle

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Malthe Højholt keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Gornik Zabrze may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Igor Nolewajka agrees terms with Znicz Pruszków

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Gornik Zabrze people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Gornik Zabrze say no — this time

The offer from Odra Opole for Wiktor Kania was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

The dugout

Sondre Liseth frozen out at Gornik Zabrze

This is not rotation. Sondre Liseth has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Gornik Zabrze is pretending otherwise.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Gornik Zabrze

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Transfer targets

Gornik Zabrze rebuffed over Dawid Pakulski

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Pogoń Siedlce have kept their man, and Gornik Zabrze go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A falling-out at Gornik Zabrze

Erik Janža and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Michał Rakoczy

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

One of our own: Filip Lewandowski joins the Gornik Zabrze first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Filip Lewandowski is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief