Bartosz Piotr Slisz (born 29 March 1999) is a Polish professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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and the Poland national team.

Club career

Early career

Slisz started his football career at his local club RKP Rybnik in 2012. In 2015, Slisz was a ROW Rybnik player where he stayed until 2017.

Zagłębie Lubin and Legia Warsaw

In 2017, Slisz signed for

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. On 28 February 2020, he signed a four-and-a-half-year contract with

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. The team from Warsaw paid €1.8 million for the transfer, which was at the time the highest transfer fee ever paid by any

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club.

Atlanta United

In January 2024, he signed for

club

on a four-year contract.

International career

Slisz made his debut for the Poland national team on 5 September 2021 in a

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against

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, a 7–1 away victory. He substituted

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at half-time. He was called up for his first international tournament in June 2024, making Poland's final roster for

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in Germany.

Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Poland goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Slisz goal''

Honours

Zagłębie Lubin II * IV liga Lower Silesia West: 2016–17 Legia Warsaw *

: 2019–20,

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Individual * Ekstraklasa Young Player of the Month: September 2019

References

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* 1999 births Living people Polish men's footballers Footballers from Rybnik Men's association football midfielders Poland men's youth international footballers Poland men's under-21 international footballers Poland men's international footballers IV liga players III liga players II liga players Ekstraklasa players Major League Soccer players KS ROW 1964 Rybnik players Zagłębie Lubin players Legia Warsaw players Atlanta United FC players UEFA Euro 2024 players Polish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Polish expatriate sportspeople in the United States 21st-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-footy-midfielder-1990s-stub