Kolodziejczak playing for Nice in 2013
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Timothée Kolodziejczak | ||
Date of birth | 1 October 1991 | ||
Place of birth | Arras, France | ||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Playing position | Centre back/Left back | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Borussia Mönchengladbach | ||
Number | 25 | ||
Youth career | |||
1999 | Saint-Maurice Loos | ||
1999–2000 | Avion | ||
2000–2008 | Lens | ||
2008–2009 | Lyon | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2009–2012 | Lyon | 12 | (0) |
2012–2014 | Nice | 71 | (2) |
2014–2017 | Sevilla | 52 | (1) |
2017– | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 0 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2007 | France U16 | 1 | (0) |
2007–2008 | France U17 | 15 | (1) |
2008–2009 | France U18 | 6 | (0) |
2009–2010 | France U19 | 14 | (2) |
2010–2012 | France U20 | 18 | (4) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14 May 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 27 September 2014 |
Timothée Kolodziejczak (French pronunciation: [timɔte kolodʒezak]; born 1 October 1991) is a French professional footballer who plays for German club Borussia Mönchengladbach as a central defender.
Kolodziejczak is a French youth international and has competed at all levels. He played on the under-19 team that won the 2010 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship. Due to the difficulty of pronouncing his surname, he is a commonly referred to as Kolo.
Kolodziejczak was born on 1 October 1991 in Arras (France) to a Polish father and a Martiniquais mother.
Kolodziejczak began his career at the age of seven playing for local club US Saint-Maurice Loos-en-Gohelle. In July 1999, he moved to hometown club CS Avion where he spent a year. In June 2000, Kolodziejczak joined the professional club of RC Lens. While in the club's youth academy, he trained alongside youth and international teammate Gaël Kakuta at the Centre de Préformation de Football in nearby Liévin, a training center exclusively for players brought up in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region. He spent two years at the center training there during the weekdays and playing with Lens on the weekends. One of his trainers at the facility was former Polish international Joachim Marx.