Tomasz Kędziora
Tomasz Karol Kędziora ( ; born 11 June 1994) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Lech Poznań and the Poland national team. He is also under contract with Ukrainian Premier League club Dynamo Kyiv, but that contract is suspended amidst the league's suspension due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Club career. Early career. At the age of four, Tomasz Karol Kędziora started attending the youth academy of the UKP Zielona Góra. He was being trained at the time by his father, Mirosław. In 2000 he officially started training with players his age . In July 2010, he took part as an UKP Zielona Góra player in the final tournament of the Polish Junior Championships. The team won the bronze medal, coached by Tomasz Kędziora's father. Lech Poznań. Before the start of the 2010–11 season, Kędziora signed for reigning Polish champions Lech Poznań. Initially he was a player of the Junior Ekstraklasa Lech team, where in the 2010–11 season he played 20 matches and scored two goals. In the fall of the 2011–12 season, he was placed in the first team, but continued to perform only in the Junior Ekstraklasa, having 20 appearances  and scoring seven goals (including five from penalties). On 20 September 2011, Kędziora was included in Lech's squad for the 1/16 Polish Cup final against Chrobry Głogów, but he did not play. On 21 June 2012, Kędziora signed a new three-year contract with the Poznań club, which went until 30 June 2015. Kędziora made his debut for the first team on 12 July 2012 in a 1–1 draw of the first qualifying round of the Europa League with Kazakhstan club FC Zhetysu, entering at the 90th minute for Bartosz Ślusarski. On 27 October 2012, Kędziora made his debut  in the Ekstraklasa in the 2–0 defeat against Jagiellonia Białystok in the 9th round, replacing Hubert Wołąkiewicz in the 62nd minute. On 20 September 2013, during the 8th round of the Ekstraklasa with Pogoń Szczecin, he suffered an injury to his thigh muscle and returned on 13 December for the 21st match against Zawisza Bydgoszcz. On 5 May 2014, he scored his first goal in the Polish top-flight in a 2–1 win in the 32nd round against Zawisza Bydgoszcz. Kędziora signed a new, three-year contract with the Poznań club on 1 November 2015, effective from 1 July 2015  to 30 June 2018. In the 2014–15 season, he won the Polish title with the team, appearing in 35 matches, scoring three goals and having six assists. Dynamo Kyiv. On 11 July 2017, Kędziora signed a 4-year contract with Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv. Return to Lech Poznań. On 7 March 2022, FIFA announced that, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, all the contracts of foreign players in Ukraine are suspended until 30 June 2022 and they are allowed to sign with clubs outside Ukraine until 30 June 2022, and the transfer window is reopened for such players to  sign and get registered for the new club until 7 April 2022. On 17 March 2022, Kędziora returned to Lech Poznań until the end of the season under that condition. International career. Kędziora got his first call up to the senior Poland squad for friendlies against Georgia and Greece in June 2015. But he made his debut against Mexico on 13 November 2017. In May 2018 he was named in Poland’s preliminary 35-man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. However, he did not make the final 23. Honours. Lech Poznań Dynamo Kyiv