Jakub Blaszczykowski: Poland’s Suffering Hero

* The match between Poland and Portugal takes place at 2:00 a.m. on July 1 (Hanoi time), online on VnExpress.

Lewandowski scored 42 goals for Bayern Munich before entering this year’s Euro.

Three months ago, Kuba (Blaszczykowski’s nickname) also scored a goal.

Kuba, and no one else, is Poland’s most effective player in this tournament.

The truth is that before that review match, people did not think Kuba would be called up.

Kuba’s career was hitting rock bottom at that time.

`Some people thought his international career was over. But I clearly understand that Kuba will never give up,` Lukasz Piszczek, right back of Dortmund and Poland, told Kicker (Germany).

Kuba (red) has extraordinary spiritual power.

Kuba’s dream seemed to have died before it even began.

After killing his wife, Blaszczykowski’s father – Mr. Zygmunt – had to serve 15 years in prison.

Kuba’s career almost stopped forever at the age of 11. His mother died, his father went to prison, the boy returned to live with his grandmother, and decided to stop playing football.

And from there, Kuba rose.

Kuba’s familiar celebration, for his deceased mother.

Either way, Poland is thankful that Kuba always knows how to come back.

Hoai Thuong