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Saturday night was really touching for the Polish football goalkeeper Lukasz Fabiaňský. The experienced 36-year-old goalkeeper of the English West Ham United said goodbye to his national team career in the national team against San Marino.
It was the 57th duel in the most valuable jersey for him and he symbolically caught against the football “dwarf” within the 57th minute. At 3: 0 for the home favorite, he left the playing area of the Warsaw stadium and once again sat down a bit symbolically in the stands between family and friends. This is where his place will now be during the national team duels.
The Poles managed Saturday’s match in qualifying for the promotion to next year’s World Cup and triumphed 5: 0, but in the table of the I-group they are only third behind the English and the selection of Albania. The website sport.pl informs about it.
Lukasz Fabiaňski said goodbye to his national team career
Source: reuters
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Fabiaňski started the match itself very moved. “What happened before the duel in the locker room completely derailed me from my professional preparation for the match,” he spoke after the match. In the locker room, his teammates prepared a video documentary for him, in which they mentioned the moments together in the national team – beautiful and less pleasant ones.
When the short film ended, the experienced goalkeeper looked away from the screen. “And I saw over my shoulder that my wife, son, and parents were standing in the locker room. I was shocked to see them. It was something so beautiful that I won’t forget it for the rest of my life.” he continued.
Fabiański didn’t have much work to do in the mentioned match. As time went on, he looked at the timer more and more until the 57th minute came. In the interrupted game came his announced departure. Fans applauded him and stood his name on the stand, his teammates created a gates for him. The goalkeeper left the field very slowly, as if he wanted to prolong the moments in the national team as much as possible. And he wiped the tears of emotion from his face. The star of Saturday’s duel was the home goalkeeper, who did not have to perform amazing interventions or score.
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