Full time 2-0 win - subbed out in the second half, picked up a yellow card. Four game win streak has put them comfortably in a Europa League spot and they're in the cup final next weekend.
On the bench: ❗ W takim składzie rozpoczniemy mecz z Jagiellonią! 🔥#JAGRCZ 🕖 19:00 pic.twitter.com/zGdMmcUa83— Raków Częstochowa 🥇 (@Rakow1921) April 28, 2021
Lederman came on at half, and picked up a yellow - Bigger picture, I think failing to win this might formally clinch, or all-but-clinch, the league title for Legia Warsaw. Rakow now down to playing for second, when they've clinched at worst third, and second and third get the same Europa League treatment. However, they still have the Cup final coming up on Sunday, against a team from the second tier, so they are significant favorites.
Starts in Polish Cup final: ❗️ Nasz skład na finał! 🔥⚔@PZPNPuchar | #RCZARK pic.twitter.com/HTARB0aWf9— Raków Częstochowa 🥇 (@Rakow1921) May 2, 2021
Left tied 1-1: ⏱️ 85' - Kolejna zmiana w naszym zespole:⤴️ Szelągowski↪️ Lederman____________________#RCZARK 1⃣:1⃣— Raków Częstochowa 🥇 (@Rakow1921) May 2, 2021 Rakow scored again in the 89th minute to complete a 2 goal comeback.. Cup winners. 🔥🔥🔥 RAKÓW ZDOBYWCĄ PUCHARU POLSKI! 🔥🔥🔥@PZPNPuchar | #RCZARK pic.twitter.com/y6UpFKAHXf— Raków Częstochowa 🥇 (@Rakow1921) May 2, 2021
Watching Ben Lederman most of the season, he seems full of confidence with Rakow. Poland might not be the most glamorous league, but it does get you ready for whats next. Lederman doing a great job using it as platform. #USMNT— Larry Henry Jr (@lhenry019) May 2, 2021
Appears to not be in the squad today for a relatively meaningless league match, on the back of Sunday's final. 6 start today who didn't start Sunday - basically the same defense and everything else switched. Playing for second place and pride.
Good for him.. One-time #USYNT midfielder Ben Lederman has been called up by Poland's U-21 team. Lederman's club Raków Częstochowa (which recently won the Polish Cup) announced the news. https://t.co/ArM7XX754X— Brian Sciaretta (@BrianSciaretta) May 7, 2021
He has some Polish blood? I didn’t know that. I knew he had some Jewish heritage. Nonetheless, good for Ben! He’s quietly had a nice season and this is a nice reward.
Probably. But he’s 20…… that’s some old grandparents. I’m in.my late 30’s and my grandparents were in young adulthood during WWII. More likely it would be Ben’a great-grandparents if that’s the case.
My younger kid is 27, my parents were born in 1931. His grandparents were probably born in mid thirties. By the time Ben was born they would have been in their early sixties.
He got a Polish passport in 2016, which is what allowed him to return to La Masia. https://www.espn.com/soccer/barcelo...arcelona-academy-with-polish-passport-sources We discussed it a bit in this thread but I didn't see any info as to how he qualified (besides similar speculation). I do know his parents are from Israel.
(One of) His parents applied for Polish citizenship and qualified, based on a Polish-born grandparent/grandparents born in the 1930s. Since Ben would have been a minor at that time, once his qualifying parent got Polish citizenship, the paperwork would have been filed to pass that citizenship on to Ben as a dependent minor child of that parent. Pretty straightforward, actually. Generally speaking, the more misery in a country's history, and certainly the larger emigration looms its recent past, the more ways there are to qualify for its citizenship.
Striplings! Mere striplings! I'm in my . . . oh, never mind! And my dad was born before the war - the First World War
Poland is pretty generous on going further back than most countries (though they don't like dual citizenship) and have a special provision to grant citizenship to Poles who moved to Israel.
I looked into Polish citizenship briefly and was told the citizneship law start around 1920...and since my grandfather moved before then it wouldnt apply to me. Not sure how accurate that is or isn't....
They have done some modification, but here's what I found: Most people whose parents, grandparents or great-grandparents were born in Poland qualify for Polish citizenship through descent. In essence you need to have at least one ancestor who: Was born in Poland (or one of the former territories) and resided there after 1920; or Left Poland before 1920, but your ancestors’ residential address can be found in the Polish, Prussian, Russian or Austro-Hungarian registers; and Maintained their Polish citizenship until the day of your birth.