{"id":560264,"date":"2020-07-30T13:33:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T17:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=560264"},"modified":"2020-07-30T13:33:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T17:33:21","slug":"jakub-ojrzynski-signs-new-deal-at-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/07\/30\/jakub-ojrzynski-signs-new-deal-at-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Jakub Ojrzynski Signs New Deal at Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/liverpool\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liverpool&#8217;s<\/a> young Polish goalkeeper Jakub Ojrzynski has signed a new deal, his first professional contract with the club.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"pl\">Jakub Ojrzynski has signed his first professional contract with the Reds \ud83d\ude4c\ud83d\udd34<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liverpool FC (Premier League Champions \ud83c\udfc6) (@LFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LFC\/status\/1288806546642571264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Liverpool Goalkeeper Jakub Ojrzynski Signs New Deal<\/h2>\n<h3>Career so Far<\/h3>\n<p>The 17-year-old goalkeeper joined from Legia Warsaw in his native Poland last summer, immediately joining the first-team squad for the summer tour of the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Ojrzynski has spent much of his time with the U18s at Liverpool&#8217;s Kirkby Academy base. After gaining international clearance, the young Pole started in the 6-1 victory over arch-rivals <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/everton\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Everton<\/a> in October. He then made nine appearances in the U18 Premier League for the Reds, conceding 20 goals.<\/p>\n<p>The young Pole also made his UEFA Youth League debut during October, and is said to have made progress on his distribution and footwork during training since joining the club.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool already boast plenty of talented young keepers, as well as 16-year-old Fabian Mrozek, who recently joined the Premier League champions, again from Poland.<\/p>\n<p>These two Polish starlets are joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/62182b1d\/Kamil-Grabara?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kamil Grabara,<\/a> a third native Polish goalkeeper, on Liverpool\u2019s books. Klopp also has Irish stopper, Caiomhin Kelleher, in his squad; he could be set to gain valuable experience away from the club on loan in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>All of the Polish stoppers will be hoping they can follow in their countryman, <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/1064659d\/Jerzy-Dudek?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jerzy Dudek<\/a>&#8216;s footsteps. Dudek was number one at Anfield between 2001-07, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qgx5titY8L8\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">including on that famous<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qgx5titY8L8\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">night in Istanbul in 2005.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both Ben Winterbottom and Vitezslav Jaros, two other goalkeepers for whom the club have high hopes, also penned extended deals recently.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool are now amassing a plethora of high-quality young goalkeepers, with arguably one of the best in the world in Alisson to learn from. Perhaps in the future one or two of these youngsters could reach a similar level to the Brazilian.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"2DVjgTSaQXF4kpGH1UI3aA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1224908347\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'2DVjgTSaQXF4kpGH1UI3aA',sig:'GADmO7Cb97QN0b37UCYMo8C0tUsy7ECvmTMLspm3c50=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1224908347',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool&#8217;s young Polish goalkeeper Jakub Ojrzynski has signed a new deal, his first professional contract with the club. Jakub Ojrzynski has signed his first professional contract with the Reds \ud83d\ude4c\ud83d\udd34 \u2014 Liverpool FC (Premier League Champions \ud83c\udfc6) (@LFC) July 30, 2020 Liverpool Goalkeeper Jakub Ojrzynski Signs New Deal Career so Far The 17-year-old goalkeeper joined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3501,"featured_media":560302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1827,2,16,3],"tags":[3847,6228,6229,45,6232,1944,6230,95,1169,1858,3923,6231,136],"class_list":["post-560264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academy","category-featured","category-liverpool","category-premier-league","tag-alisson-becker","tag-ben-winterbottom","tag-caiomhin-kelleher","tag-everton","tag-fabian-mrozek","tag-goalkeeper","tag-jerzy-dudek","tag-liverpool","tag-poland","tag-uefa-youth-league","tag-under-23","tag-vitezslav-jaros","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Ben Robinson, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}