The footballer considered better than Lewandowski, but lost alcohol

This is a story of sadness. Easy money, girls, discos, impatience and an addiction that starts with a drink. The lead to David Janczyk (now sacz, Poland. Despite his enormous potential as a striker.

Lewy’s first sporting coup

There was a time when the fashionable goalscorer entered Poland is not Robert Lewandowski. In February 2005, Legia sent him on loan Warsaw Delta (based on legia) of the 4th division. At the end of the season, the man who is now a Barça player scored four goals and the team finished in fifth position. In that year, the Delta dissolved and Robert back to discipline legia signing a one-year contract in July 2005. At the same time, David Janczyk, a year older than him, played for the first team that season scoring six goals and providing one assist off the bench in 10 games. And while Robert He went down to the Third Division branch in the 2005-06 season where he scored two goals, the sports management chose the ‘wonder boy’. David He played in the first team and with his goals they became champions of the First Division. He did a test on Chelsea of Mourinhobut he said that he was too young and returned to Poland.

On June 30, 2006, the contract for Lewy with the legia and although he attended summer training camp with the first team, the then coach Dariusz Wdowczyk He didn’t like him and they didn’t change him. Lewandowski He always referred to that situation as “the first sports coup of my life.” Another personal blow was the loss of his father last year.

going to moscow

David he went Sub 20 world of Canada 2007 with a contract from CSKA although English scouts (and reportedly Atlético de Madrid too) have been following him closely since the 2006 sub19 championship when he endorsed a hat-trick in Belgium. Within U20 He stood out scoring three goals in 4 games, one of which is remembered by the Argentines for not conceding any goals.

He CSKA paid 4.2 million euros, the most expensive transfer of a Polish player in the Russian league.

descent into hell

Arrived at CSKA There are 20 years and 5 year contracts. But he played only 14 games and scored 2 goals this time for the Moscow team. He met competition from Wagner Lowe and Joe Alves and it goes into the calls a little bit. Long afternoons with nothing to do, loneliness led him to start drinking: “I didn’t know you didn’t have to get drunk or passed out to be an alcoholic. And if you’re waiting all day to get home or at the bar for a drink, it’s a sign that you’ve crossed the thin red line.

He CSKA it was given after two years locker Belgian in the 2009-10 season. There he had his best performance: 14 goals in 31 games, but he also remembers that only in Belgium he came to training drunk. He said that at the club they already knew about his alcoholism and they brought him back Moscow which he gave again. This time to Germinal Beerschot of antwerp. Then he went to crown kielce polish et al PFK Oleksandria Ukrainian. Between 2011 and 2013, when the contract with CSKAhe didn’t even have a foot Moscow.

collapse

As of the 2014-15 season, the sporting life of David Janczyk, it bounces back and forth from one club to another as he deals with alcoholism. Many times they accepted him in a club out of pity or what he was, but his repeated non-appearance in training sessions or games ended the patience of the directives.

His whereabouts were unknown for a year. Then he appeared for the training of the reserve team of legiabut when he was about to get the contract, he relapsed and was admitted to a clinic where he only lasted a few days.

Psychotic attacks

He does not believe in the therapies of clinics and AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) meetings. At that time, doctors at the psychiatric hospital where he was admitted saved his life on several occasions. One night, an ethylic coma almost led to his death and when doctors pulled him out of the collapse up to five times, janczyk he revives in anger with a psychotic break.

can’t get out of the hole

In 2016 he returned to his childhood team, the Sandecja Nowy Sacz. The day he was introduced, he said he got sober for the first time last year. There he played 8 games and scored 2 goals, but, at the end of the season, he left football at the age of 30. He dedicated himself to writing his memoirs and continuing his fight against alcohol. What seemed like a redemption could write their experiences to get out of the hole, did not work. The book was published in 2018 but he admitted that he never recovered and was always an alcoholic.

In 2019 I had to attend a dinner. Did not arrive. The police found him lying drunk on the ground far from the station where the train would have boarded. Her husband kicked her out of the house and it hurts her not to see her daughters. In 2021, he recorded himself driving drunk screaming that he couldn’t stop drinking. That was his last sad episode.

From 2019 to present, David Janczyk been through MKS Ciechanovhe LZS Piotrowkahe Crown Wilkowicehe Poland Jastrowie and the Sadownik Waganiec. In four years he wore the jersey of six amateur teams. At the age of 35, he wants to continue to feel like a footballer, even if the match is not yet on the pitch.

He regretted every day he went CSKA: “If I had accepted other offers, such as SpainMaybe now it won’t be like that.”

He looked for a job in construction as an electrician with his mother-in-law driving him around Germany and Sweden to keep it away from other environments. David he said he is not ashamed to work for a living, “I don’t want to, but if necessary, I will do it. I have no other way out. I hit the bottom, but I’m getting out of here. I will go out with the help of God”.

The only thing that kept him sane was the thought that one day he would see his daughters.