Zbigniew "Zibi" Małkowski (born 19 January 1978) is a Polish professional

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coach and former

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who played as a

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. He works as a goalkeeping coach for Stomil Olsztyn.

Club career

Hibernian

'Zibi' first appeared for Hibernian as a trialist in a 5–0 win over St Patrick's Athletic in the 2005–06 pre-season tour of

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. He then made a second showing in the game 24 hours later against

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. He impressed

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, and on returning to

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was signed on a two-year contract. After initially impressing during the first half of the 2005–06 league season, he started to make errors around the turn of the year. Małkowski was notable for making a series of errors in derby matches against Hibs'

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, Hearts. His first two mistakes in the 2006 Scottish Cup defeat, followed by an error leading to a Hearts equaliser in the next derby, which Hibs won 2–1. Having kept his place under

during the following season, he made two bad errors in the first derby after Mowbray's departure to West Brom. Małkowski's errors resulted in a draw, in a game where they had been 2–0 up after sixteen minutes. In what proved to be Malkowski's last game for the club, he made a serious error in the next derby match, when he dropped a tame free kick by

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into the path of

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, who scored into the unguarded net. This led to Małkowski being dropped from the Hibernian squad entirely for the following match against

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, being replaced by Andrew McNeil.

Gretna

Having completely fallen out of favour at Hibs, Małkowski was loaned out to

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leaders Gretna towards the end of the 2006–07 season. He replaced Alan Main, who had signed a pre-contract agreement with their promotion rivals

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. Małkowski made a positive impression at Gretna, keeping several clean sheets, including a

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save against

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that preserved a 1–0 win. Małkowski's performances contributed towards Gretna's promotion to the

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Inverness

Małkowski returned to Hibs after completing his loan spell at Gretna. He was still completely out of favour at Hibs, who had signed Yves Ma-Kalambay to be their first choice goalkeeper. Małkowski played as a trialist in a match for

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, who subsequently signed

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on loan from

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. On 31 August 2007, he joined

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on a season-long loan. Małkowski made an error in his first match for Inverness against

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, which they lost 2–1.

Poland

After completing loan spells at Gretna and Inverness, Małkowski was released by Hibernian on 1 September 2008. He has since returned to Poland to continue playing his football at a lower level, with OKS 1945 Olsztyn, his first senior club.

Honours

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

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Malkowski, Zbigniew Living people 1978 births Footballers from Olsztyn Polish men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Eredivisie players Ekstraklasa players II liga players IV liga players Scottish Premier League players Scottish Football League players Stomil Olsztyn S.A. players Feyenoord players Excelsior Rotterdam players Hibernian F.C. players Gretna F.C. players Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. players Korona Kielce players Zagłębie Lubin players Widzew Łódź players Polish expatriate men's footballers Polish expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Polish expatriate sportspeople in Scotland Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland Association football goalkeeping coaches