Tomasz Zdebel is a retired Polish-German football player who played as a defensive midfielder.
Background
Zdebel was born and grew up in the Upper Silesian city of Katowice (German: Kattowitz). His father was a football player, but the family could not survive with the income of the father as a football player, so he worked as a miner during the week.
Career
He was active in his active career in Germany, Belgium and Turkey. From 2000 to 2003, he played for the Polish national team In 1988, he emigrated at the age of 14 or 15 to Düsseldorf.
Zdebel started playing football in the local club GKS Katowice.
After the emigration to Germany, he joined the youth team of Fortuna Düsseldorf, but his active career began in 1990 at Rot-Weiss Essen. A year later, Essen"s license was revoked and thus the team was relegated from the Bundesliga.
Zdebel stayed at the club In 1992 Zdebel joined 1.
Football Club Köln and played initially for the Reserves of the billy goats.
In 1993, he debuted for the first team He was considered a "playmaker talent", later an "eternal talent" and "sloppy genius". So he left Cologne in 1997 and moved to the then reigning Belgian champions Lierse Saskatchewan. In the very first season with the Flames Zdebel reached the seventh place and participated with Lierse Saskatchewan in the 1997-1998 Union of European Football Associations Champions League.
In the group stage, the Belgians dropped out with five defeats and one draw.
In the following seasons, Lierse reached the eighth and then the tenth place. Zdebel played as central midfielder for Lierse, but he also played in the defence.
In 2001, Zdebel moved to Turkey and signed with Gençlerbirliği South.K. In 2003, he returned to Germany and joined VfL Bochum.