Polish player battles family trauma
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May 26, 2012, Saturday
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POLAND captain Kuba Blaszczykowski was on Thursday training with the rest of his teammates after the death of his father, whose memory is indelibly associated with the 1996 killing of the player's mother.
Blaszczykowski's success in the football spotlight - he has been with German double winners Borussia Dortmund since 2007 - is all the more impressive because of his childhood trauma.
In September 1996, when Blaszczykowski was just 11 and already playing for his local youth team, he reportedly witnessed the stabbing of his mother Anna by his father Zygmunt, who was later jailed for 15 years.
"This will stay with me for my entire life. I'd give anything for my mother to be still alive," Blaszczykowski, who has rarely spoken about his past in public, said two years ago. Zygmunt died on Sunday, aged 56.
"What happened switched my life around by 180 degrees," he added. "It's like a rock fell on your head, and after a week you wake up and have to start life all over again. I'll never understand what happened, nor why."
Blaszczykowski's success in the football spotlight - he has been with German double winners Borussia Dortmund since 2007 - is all the more impressive because of his childhood trauma.
In September 1996, when Blaszczykowski was just 11 and already playing for his local youth team, he reportedly witnessed the stabbing of his mother Anna by his father Zygmunt, who was later jailed for 15 years.
"This will stay with me for my entire life. I'd give anything for my mother to be still alive," Blaszczykowski, who has rarely spoken about his past in public, said two years ago. Zygmunt died on Sunday, aged 56.
"What happened switched my life around by 180 degrees," he added. "It's like a rock fell on your head, and after a week you wake up and have to start life all over again. I'll never understand what happened, nor why."
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