{"id":744419,"date":"2023-07-11T19:44:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T16:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/uncategorized-en\/20230711-tomasz-is-back\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T13:43:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T10:43:50","slug":"20230711-tomasz-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/news\/20230711-tomasz-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomasz is back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kedziora<\/strong>\u00a0was born on June 11, 1994 in\u00a0Sulech\u00f3w<\/strong>,\u00a0Poland<\/strong>\u00a0and was into football at the deep end from early on.\u00a0Miroslav\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0father was a coach at the\u00a0Zielona<\/strong>\u00a0Gora<\/strong>\u00a0academies and he started taking him to training sessions and coaching him from the age of four, playing with kids up to four years older than him.<\/p>\n

In 2000 he officially joined the\u00a0Zielona<\/strong>\u00a0youth setup. In 2010, under his father\u2019s guidance, he played in the final stage of a development tournament in\u00a0Poland<\/strong>\u00a0and attracted the interest of champions\u00a0Lech Poznan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

He joined their second team straight away, took on a leading role and in the autumn of the 2011\u201312 season earned his promotion to the first team.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0July 2012<\/strong>\u00a0he made his official senior debut in a European game against\u00a0Zetsu<\/strong>\u00a0from Kazakhstan, and since then with steady steps he started to become a key player for the team.<\/p>\n

In total, he made 151 appearances for\u00a0Lech<\/strong>, scoring 10 goals and providing 12 assists, won a championship and two\u00a0Polish Cups<\/strong>, before it was time for the next move.<\/p>\n

Dynamo Kyiv<\/strong>\u00a0was the team who made him theirs in the summer of 2017, while a few months later the first call came from the\u00a0Polish<\/strong>\u00a0national team, with whom he has played in 26 games to date, scoring one goal and two assists, having previously played at all age levels of the youth teams of his homeland.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Kyiv<\/strong>\u00a0he adapted very quickly and became a key member of the team. He won one championship, two Ukrainian Cups, three Super Cups, played in 198 matches, scored seven goals and provided 20 assists, while also working under the guidance of Razvan Lucescu\u2019s father, Mircea.<\/p>\n

When the war broke out in\u00a0Ukraine<\/strong>,\u00a0Kendziora<\/strong>\u00a0returned on loan to\u00a0Lech Poznan<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0March 2022<\/strong>, playing in seven matches and celebrating a league title.<\/p>\n

He returned to\u00a0Dynamo<\/strong>\u00a0Kyiv<\/strong>\u00a0and this season he played in 18 matches, in the league,\u00a0Champions League<\/strong>\u00a0qualifiers and\u00a0Europa League<\/strong>\u00a0groups.<\/p>\n

With the Double-headed Eagle,<\/strong> Kedziora <\/strong>made 10 appearances and scored one goal, playing both as a right back and as a stopper.<\/p>\n

PAOK<\/strong> reached an agreement with Dynamo Kyiv<\/strong> and renewed the Polish<\/strong> international’s stay for another season.<\/p>\n

Welcome back Thomas!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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