[2][3] Until 2010, Oleksy played as a goalkeeper for Polish club Korona Kożuchów.

[1] In 2010, Olesky stopped his career to focus on working as a construction worker.

In 2019, he started playing for Warta Poznań, and in 2021 for the Poland national amputee team.

The winning goal was an overhead kick scored on 6 November 2022 in a match between Warta Poznań and Stal Rzeszów.

[2][1] He was the first Polish player and first amputee footballer to win the award, as well as the oldest winner at the age of 35.