Arsenal continues to strengthen its ranks (Stuart MacFarlane/Getty)
announced club English ArsenalOn Tuesday, he signed a contract with the Polish international defender, Jakob Kujor, from Italian Speziawhere he spent a long-term contract with the team without revealing its duration, and the player will wear shirt number 15.
“We are happy to sign Jacob because he is a young talent and we have been watching him for a while,” said Edu, the team’s sports director, in statements to the club’s website.
As for technical director Mikel Arteta, he praised his technical capabilities, saying: “Jacob is a very talented young defender who showed tremendous potential with Spezia. It is great that he joined us. Jacob’s joining will give us strength and quality in defense and we look forward to working with him.”
Jacob was born on February 15, 2000, in the city of Tychy, Poland. He started playing football with the local team, “GKAS Tychy”, where he used to occupy the left-back position, and was nicknamed “Carlos”, likening the Brazilian star Roberto Carlos, And that was confirmed by his coach, Christoph Berger, to the Polish newspaper “Super Express”: “He has a magical shot with his left leg, he managed to score many goals with it.”
In 2016, the young defender left Poland in order to join the youth groups of the Belgian club Anderlecht, and coach Rene Weiler invited him to join the first team, but he did not count on him in the matches, considering that he did not have the level that qualifies him for that, so he chose to leave the Belgian giants in January. From 2019.
The player chose to start his professional career with a modest team in the Slovak Championship, which is Zilziarny Podbresova, who was struggling to avoid relegation, and within only 6 months he impressed everyone, to move to a better team, Zilina, for 250,000 euros.
Although Kiyoor did not win any title, he was a key element in the team, as he played 64 matches, during which he scored 4 goals and provided 6 assists, which made him catch the eye of the Italian team Spezia, who contracted him for 2.2 million euros in August 2021. He played 43 matches with him, which was enough to attract the attention of one of the best teams in Europe at the moment, Arsenal.
At the international level, Jacob Kujor was included in all the teams of the age groups of the Polish national team, before he received in 2022 his first invitation to the first team, with whom he played 9 matches, including participation in the Qatar World Cup 2022, where he was an effective element in the team’s defense line. , and received great praise from national team star Robert Lewandowski.
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