Damian Grosicki

Central Defender - Podbeskidzie U18
29 Jan 2029
Monday
Process

Marked for Damian Grosicki

75 Edition

The Podbeskidzie Post

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Podbeskidzie spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Boardroom

The caretaker keeps it: Interim Coach confirmed

A month of looking elsewhere ended where it started. He already knows every name in the building; the rest of it he now has to prove in public.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Damian Grosicki

15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Podbeskidzie lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Thyago Ayala hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Podbeskidzie can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Thyago Ayala

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Tempers go at Podbeskidzie

Karol Knap was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at Podbeskidzie training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Mendes is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Podbeskidzie get the job done against Ruch

A 2‑1 win over Ruch, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Karol Knap

A mark of 7.69, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief

Back issues
74 Edition

The Podbeskidzie Post

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Maksymilian Sitek runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 45. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Damian Grosicki

22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Podbeskidzie lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Podbeskidzie

Position 14 and 17 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Vicente Prado asks to leave Podbeskidzie

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings

Jarosław Czerwik, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.75

A mark of 7.75 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Kacper Gach goes up and wins it — 7.92

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.92 for the rest of it.

Squad

Thyago Ayala in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbeskidzie this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Karol Knap 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Jarosław Czerwik

At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief