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Summary Character and willpower to overcome adversity combine in Poland captain Jakub Blaszczykowski.
The 26-year-old Borussia Dortmund players world took a horrible turn one night 16 years ago when his father stabbed his mother to death.Blaszczykowski has said he realizes that this stigma on my psyche will stay with me till the end of my life. Ill never understand it, and the question of why, of what the reason was, will stay with me until I die.His father was sentenced to prison for the murder, leaving Blaszczykowski and his older brother without either parent. Their grandmother, Felicija, stepped forward and took the brothers in, raising both of them.
