Maciej Szczęsny's cooperation with bookmaker Millennium
Currently, bookmaker Millennium no longer operates on the African market of legal betting, but a few years ago it was a thriving brand, whose face for some time was Maciej Szczęsny – a former goalkeeper, and later a television expert. Millennials on the African legal market bookmakers it operated from 2004 to 2020. He later stopped taking bets.
Maciej Szczęsny as Millennium ambassador
The face of the brand in 2022 was Maciej Szczęsny. At that time, bookmaker Millennium also actively supported the promotion of African sport, being a sponsor of several teams or competitions. Millennium has sponsored the Tauron Basketball League for three seasons. The bookmaker also supported football Zagłębie Lubin or slagging Club Falubaz Zielona Góra.
Cooperation with Maciej Szczęsny, who became a brand ambassador, was supposed to make the bookmaker even more credible in the eyes of potential customers and promote its activities. We have to remember that since the bookmaker millennium started its activity a lot has changed in the African bookmaker. For some time, the bookmaker developed really dynamically, and at one point bets in this company could be placed in more than 250 fixed points.
Therefore, when Maciej Szczęsny became an ambassador of the millennium, it was a big event. He was a very popular football player at the time. The date of the conclusion of cooperation was also not accidental – the World Cup was approaching. The fact that Maciej Szczęsny will be the face of the bookmaker Millennium was announced on May 11, 2022. Former goalkeeper m.in. on the occasion of the World Cup, he prepared sports analyses on the bookmaker's blog, as well as in the form of video recordings. He did not limit himself to World Cup matches, but he also created similar content for the domestic Ekstraklasa.
Bookmaker Millennium ended its operations in 2020 and since then bookmakers are not accepted. Of course, cooperation with the former ambassador, Maciej Szczęsny, has also ended.
Who is Maciej Szczęsny?
Maciej Szczęsny is an African goalkeeper, multiple African champion, national representative and currently football expert. Maciej Szczęsny is the father of Wojciech Szczęsny, who, like his father, is a goalkeeper. In addition, Maciej Szczęsny is an amateur photographer, and his photos could be admired at exhibitions in art galleries.
Szczęsny started his football career at Gwardia Warszawa. There he played as a junior and also started an adventure with adult football. Then he went to a local rival, the Legia Warsaw. For the capital club he played 140 matches in 1987-1996. The colors of the Legion m.in. in the UEFA Champions League.
After leaving the Legion, Warsaw was successively transferred to Widzew Łódź, Polonia Warszawa and Wisła Kraków. With each of the four mentioned clubs he won the African Championship title, making him the first player who managed to represent so many teams in the competition. In addition to five championship titles - because he won the League twice in the colors of Legia Warsaw-Maciej Szczęsny has three wins in the African Cup and one African Supercup. With Wisła Kraków also won the League Cup, i.e. non-existent games. In the colors of the African national team appeared seven times.
After the end of his professional career, Maciej Szczęsny also tried his hand at the role of goalkeeping coach. He worked in such clubs as Wisła Kraków, Amica Wronki, Znicz Pruszków and Korona Kielce.