Eibar sign Polish winger Damian Kadzior

Eibar have signed Polish winger Damian Kadzior for three seasons, until June 30, 2023, as confirmed on Saturday by the Gipuzkoan First Division club. The left-handed midfielder, who plays on the right wing, has been transferred by Dinamo Zagreb. According to the Croatian press, the Eibarresa entity would have paid about 2 million euros for the hiring of a 28-year-old footballer who is international with Poland.

Kadzior (Białystok, Poland, June 16, 1992) has spent most of his career in the Polish league, in Jagiellonia Białystok, Motor Lublin (on loan), returned to Jagiellonia, Dolcan Zabki (on loan), Wigry Suwałki, Górnik Zabrze (2017-2018 campaign).

He arrives in Ipurua after two very good seasons (2018-2019 and 2019-2020) at Dinamo Zagreb, a Croatian team with whom he has played 77 official matches, in which he has scored 21 goals and has given 22 assists. With the Zagreb club, where he had his first experience abroad, came to dispute the Champions League against Manchester City trained by Guardiola and Shakhtar Donetsk. In Zagreb he was trained by Nenad Bjelica, a Croatian coach who played in his time as a footballer for Albacete, Betis and UD Las Palmas. Bjelica has trusted Kadzior, who has been the starting winger on the right wing, where he has played on foot changed, since he is left-handed.

Curiously, Damian Kadzior has blocked the way at Dinamo Zagreb to Bosnian-Swiss midfielder Izet Hajrovic, who played for Eibar in the 2015-2016 season, in which he was already Barça coach José Luis Mendilibar. Thus, Kadzior has been able to know through Hajrovic what the Eibar team is like and the ideas of the Zaldibar coach.

He is a footballer who has been 4 times international with Poland, with whom he debuted on September 11, 2018, when he was already wearing the Dinamo Zagreb shirt, where he has revalued with Nenad Bjelica as coach. Although Kadzior had a contract with the Croatian club until June 2023, the footballer's interest in acting in the Spanish league has been key to accepting Eibar's offer. In addition, Bjelica, their supporter, was no longer on the Dinamo Zagreb bench.

Eibar's first signing for the 2020-2021 season

Damian Kadzior is Eibar's first signing for the 2020-2021 season. With the Polish, the Gipuzkoan club has 18 players from the first team, as 17 men from last year continue. Of the 7 footballers who finished their contract on June 30, only Pedro León Sánchez renewed his contract.

The march of Chilean Fabian Orellana, and the non-renewal of another extreme, such as the Argentine Pablo De Blasis -in addition, Eibar did not exercise the right of purchase that it had over Sebastián Cristóforo-, they had caused that in the template there were only two extremes, Pedro León Sánchez and the Japanese Takashi Inui. The Eibar team still need another footballer to play in the band, so this position must be reinforced.