{"id":162651,"date":"2026-03-16T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=162651"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:00:41","slug":"from-right-back-to-a-lethal-striker-%f0%9f%a4%af","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=162651","title":{"rendered":"From right-back to a lethal striker \ud83e\udd2f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/agzNrEgP_NQ?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Mateusz \u017bukowski went from playing right-back to starting as a striker in the 2. Bundesliga. That\u2019s rare. <\/p>\n<p>Rangers signed him in 2022 as a potential long-term replacement for James Tavernier at right-back, but he left on a free just 18 months later. Back in Poland, he mostly played as a winger and got just 1 goal in 27 games. <\/p>\n<p>Then Magdeburg took a chance on him while he was recovering from foot surgery \u2014 and turned him into a No.9. It worked. He scored 11 goals and had 2 assists in his first 12 matches. <\/p>\n<p>#soccer #football #Bundesliga #Rangers #ScottishPremiership<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=agzNrEgP_NQ\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mateusz \u017bukowski went from playing right-back to starting as a striker in the 2. Bundesliga. That\u2019s rare. Rangers signed him in 2022 as a potential long-term replacement for James Tavernier&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":162652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-world-wide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}