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Timothée Kolodziejczak

Timothée Kolodziejczak
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Kolodziejczak playing for Nice in 2013
Personal information
Full name Timothée Kolodziejczak
Date of birth (1991-10-01) 1 October 1991 (age 25)
Place of birth Arras, France
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Centre back/Left back
Club information
Current team
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.


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