Dawid Banaczek

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Dawid Banaczek
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Personal information
Date of birth (1979-06-03) 3 June 1979 (age 45)
Place of birth Gdynia, Poland
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
1987–1996 Lechia Gdańsk
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1996–1999 Lechia Gdańsk
1999–2001 Bayern Munich II 46 (6)
2001 IFK Norrköping 8 (2)
2002 RKS Radomsko 12 (2)
2002–2003 IFK Norrköping 25 (2)
2003 Widzew Łódź 2 (0)
2004 FC Vaduz
2004 Ethnikos Asteras 9 (1)
2005 Amica Wronki 5 (2)
2005–2007 Zagłębie Lubin 18 (1)
2007 Sigma Olomouc 4 (0)
2008 Viktoria Köln
2008–2010 Kaszubia Kościerzyna 49 (16)
2010–2011 Orkan Rumia 14 (9)
2019 AS Pomorze Gdańsk
International career
1996–2000 Poland U16–U21
Managerial career
2012–2013 Lechia Gdańsk (U9)
2013–2014 Kaszubia Kościerzyna
2015 Lechia Gdańsk (U17)
2015–2016 Lechia Gdańsk (assistant)
2015–2016 Lechia Gdańsk (caretaker)
2016 Lechia Gdańsk (U19)
2016–2017 Bytovia Bytów (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dawid Banaczek (born 3 June 1979) is a Polish former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or forward.

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Early life

Dawid was born in Gdynia and grew up in Gdańsk (both being parts of Tricity urban area in Poland). Dawid's father, Ryszard, was a rugby Polish national team player and then a rugby coach in Lechia Gdańsk, while his mother Barbara was a volleyball player. Dawid is the eldest of two boys.

Early career

Banaczek made his first appearance for Lechia Gdańsk where he began his trainings in 1987. As a teenager, Banaczek represented Poland U16 to U21. In 1995, he participated in the U16 European Championships, held in Belgium.

Playing career

He had played in the Lechia senior team for three seasons. In 1999, Banaczek signed a 2-year contract with Bayern Munich II. In the new club, Dawid played for two seasons for the reserves team.

In 2001, he had signed a contract with the Swedish club IFK Norrköping in which he debuted in Allsvenskan. Between 2001 and 2003, Banaczek (with a short, three-month interval in RKS Radomsko), played continuously for the IFK.

In 2005, he moved to Ekstraklasa side Amica Wronki. Under supervision of coach Maciej Skorża, he spent one round as a substitute.

He enjoyed his greatest successes as a player in Zagłębie Lubin, with whom, in the 2006–07 season, he won the championship of Poland. A year prior, Zagłębie finished the season in 3rd. Beside Zagłębie and Amica Wronki, Banaczek played in two more teams of the Ekstraklasa: RKS Radomsko and Widzew Łódź.

The last high-level stop in his football career was the Czech team Sigma Olomouc, whom he joined in 2007.

National team

He was repeatedly a member of Polish youth national teams, from U15 to U21. In 1995, under coach Andrzej Zamilski, he participated in the European U16 Championship in Belgium.

Managerial career

Lechia Gdańsk

In 2012, Dawid Banaczek started cooperation with Lechia Gdańsk, where he led the team of the Lechia Gdańsk Football Academy U9.

Kaszubia Koscierzyna

On 1 July 2013, Banaczek assumed the position of the head coach of the Kaszubia Kościerzyna, on a one-year deal.

Lechia Gdańsk

From July to August 2015 he was the head coach of Lechia Gdańsk's U17 team.

After 8 weeks of working with U17s, he became the assistant for Thomas von Heesen in the senior team. Following von Heesen's dismissal, he became the caretaker manager on 3 December 2015.

From 1 July 2016, he was an assistant coach of Drutex Bytovia Bytów.

Personal life

Dawid is married to Anna Iga. Together they have a daughter Laura, who is an artistic gymnast in SGA Gdynia.

In 2011, Dawid Banaczek has established the Football Pro Academy. The principal goal of the academy, to be achieved within several years, is to search for talents and children with passion and enthusiasm to practice this sport, and subsequently, beginning of trainings on a more advanced level.

Banaczek speaks English and German.

Honours

Vaduz

Zagłębie Lubin

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References

  1. ↑ "Dawid Banaczek". 90minut.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 June 2024.
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