Kamil Kosowski

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Profile Overview of Kamil Kosowski

Kamil Piotr Kosowski (born 30 August 1977) is a Polish football pundit, co-commentator and former player who played as a midfielder.

This profile of Kamil Kosowski covers Club Career, Wisła Kraków and loans, Cádiz, APOEL and Apollon Limassol.

Club Career of Kamil Kosowski

Born in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Kosowski started out playing for his home town club KSZO Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski.

Wisła Kraków and loans of Kamil Kosowski

Kosowski became renowned in Poland after his performances for Wisła Kraków in the 2002–03 UEFA Cup matches.

He moved to 1. FC Kaiserslautern in Germany in 2003 and then on to Southampton FC where he played the 2005–06 season on a year-long loan and was recalled to the Poland national team. He scored once in the league for Southampton, in a 1–1 draw with Hull City.

After being on loan at A.C. Chievo Verona, Kosowski returned to Wisła Kraków and played well for the first half of the season as the player with most assists in the first half of the league campaign after setting up nine goals in 13 games. But on 14 January 2008, Wisła Kraków and Kosowski mutually voided the remainder of his contract as a result of not coming to a compromise on a new deal.

Cádiz

Kosowski signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with Spanish second division team Cádiz CF on 25 January 2008. Cadiz finished 20th in the Segunda División in 2007–08 and were relegated to the Segunda División B.

APOEL

On 7 July 2008, Kosowski was transferred to APOEL from Cádiz CF and signed a two-year contract. In his first official appearance with APOEL, Kosowski scored the only goal in the Super Cup match against Anorthosis and APOEL won the title. In his first year in the club, he helped APOEL to win the Cyprus Championship 2008–09, showing his class and was one of the most valuable players of the club. The next season, he won the Super Cup again and he also appeared in five official group stage matches of the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League with APOEL. He stated that his participation with APOEL in the UEFA Champions League was one of the most important moments in his career.

Apollon Limassol

On 31 May 2010, he signed a two-year contract with Apollon Limassol but at the end of the season his contract was mutually terminated.

International Career

In August 2005 he was part of the national team's triumphant performance at the Valeri Lobanovsky Memorial Tournament 2005.

He was selected to the 23-men national squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals held in Germany, but he played only about 15 minutes against Ecuador.

Personal

Kamil Kosowski's first wife was Adrianna Kosowska, with whom he had son Aleksander. They divorced in 2003, afterwards he started relationship with Miss Polonia 1997 Roksana Jonek. They have two sons.

Source: adapted from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamil_Kosowski), text available under CC BY-SA 4.0.