It looks like Huijsen, almost two meters high, grown up with martial arts and then landed on the ball: who is the Polish defender that Gasp is preparing to welcome
The character and discipline took them from martial arts. On the other hand, when you have dads who makes the teacher enough to open a training school it is difficult not to give in to temptation. Everything else Jan Ziolkowski of Warsaw had innate it. Almost two meters high (like dad) the Polish defender, born in 2005, will land in Rome after being chosen by the DS Massara with a Gasperini’s endorsement. He will be the fifth central of the defensive package in addition to Mancini, Nicchka, Ghilardi and Hermoso. A defense of giants. Six million plus bonuses The final figure presented at Legia Warsaw where Ziolkowski has grown over the years, not without some difficulties but also with an important investiture: “One day you will play in Real Madrid”. Which recalls Josè Mourinho’s prophecy for a certain Huijsen who today plays for the blancos.
martial arts
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As written above, however, Jan’s career began on the Tatami and not on a football field despite having been born a few meters from the Legia stadium, his team of the heart. The myth was another Jan: Błachowicz, UFC maximum weight champion. The other was Mamed Chalidov, legend of the Promotion Polish KSW. Martial arts have taught him so much, very useful will also be useful on the football field: balance, resistance and above all discipline. “He is a real athlete,” recalls his old coach who had it in the youth team. “He developed harmoniously and has the leader’s spirit in DNA”. In the meantime, however, Ziolkowski also admired other champions of his country such as Kamil Glik, the former captain of Turin and the national team. So in addition to the fists he also began to kick the ball.
The Prophecy Real
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And at 15, his coach in Poland Warsaw pushed him to choose football: “You remember Bednarek. You have nothing less than Cubarsí and one day you will play in Real Madrid”. Important words that gave the 2005 class the extra push. The maturity seen on the pitch did not go unnoticed to the observers of the Legia. So at just 17 years old here is the call of dreams, at least those of the time. But the beginning was not easy. Aware of his means it was but the comparisons were too heavy and everyone expected too much from a boy even of age. “He was struggling, initially. He was often put in the second team. He was behind his companions, but we gave him a beautiful motivational injection,” recalls his coach in the Legia youth team. Then the transition to the formation of the reserves in the third Polish division with the sole objective of “making the bones”. And the bones made the blond giant. So much to become the owner of the first team. Last year, at 19, he collected 22 appearances in Ekstraklasa, a goal and two assists, including six apparitions in the Conference League plus the two in the European preliminaries of this year against Banik Ostrava. The 2005 class also has five appearances and a goal with Poland Under 20. In the meantime, getting engaged to the beautiful Natalia Kiedrowicz.
New Huijsen
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His arrival marks an important graft for the present but above all an investment for the future. Under the guidance of Gasperini Jan has the opportunity to grow more and more. To have it, Roma passed the competition of Lyon and Udinese. The comparison with Huijsen, Room of Rome as well as Juve, is obvious. Almost 2 meters high, but “heavy” about 80 kilos. “Mingherlino”, many will think. But precisely that long -limbed physique allows him to impose himself in particular on the inactive ball, also granting him the luxury of making himself dangerous in the opponent’s goal. A good ability to set the ball to the foot, combined with a good basic technique and a good sense of speed and position. Another value of his? The sense of reading. “He already knows where the ball falls in the penalty area,” says Iordanescu who trained him until yesterday in Warsaw. A fact that certainly does not smile at Jan is instead linked to the cards. In the last 19 games played in Serie A Polish with the Legia, the defender remedied 8 yellow.
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