Samuel Slovák

Samuel Slovák

Personal information
Full name	Samuel Slovák
Date of birth	17 October 1975 (1975-10-17)
Place of birth	Nitra, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1994	Plastika Nitra
1994–1997	Slovan Bratislava	62	(7)
1997–2002	Tenerife	70	(5)
2000–2001	→ Slovan Bratislava (loan)	18	(5)
2002–2003	Slovan Liberec	6	(3)
2004–2005	Nuremberg	31	(4)
2005–2010	Slovan Bratislava	89	(20)
National team
1996–2007	Slovakia	20	(0)
Teams managed
2011-	Slovan Bratislava juniori
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23 April 2011. † Appearances (Goals).

Samuel Slovák (born 17 October 1975) is a retired Slovak footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and currently manager of Slovan Bratislava juniori.

Best known for his technical and passing abilities, his career was mostly associataed with ŠK Slovan Bratislava, which he also captained for several years.

Club career

Slovák was born in Nitra. After a brief spell at local FC Plastika, the 19-year old signed with ŠK Slovan Bratislava, where he appeared regularly from an early age on.

In the 1997 summer, Slovák moved abroad, joining Spain's CD Tenerife. During his spell, he was sparingly used whilst the club was in La Liga (tops 27 matches in 1999–2000's second division, without promotion), also being loaned for one year to former side Slovan.

Slovák moved in 2002 to neighbouring Czech Republic, signing for national league title holders FC Slovan Liberec. After six games and three goals, his season was finished after he suffered a serious knee injury. In the January 2004 transfer window, when fully recovered, the player changed countries again, moving to Germany with 1. FC Nuremberg, where he teamed up with compatriots Marek Mintál and Róbert Vittek, being the least successful of the trio.

In mid-October 2005, Slovák, aged 30, left Nuremberg and returned to Slovan Bratislava. In the 2006–07 season he helped the club to a third-place, netting twice in 27 contests.

After having appeared in less than half of the matches in 2009–10, with Slovan finishing in second position in the Corgoň Liga, Slovák retired from football, aged nearly 35.

International career

Slovák gained his first cap for Slovakia at the age of 20, going on to appear in a further 19 games in the following decade (he also went through a large period of international inactivity, playing in no matches from 2002–04).

External links

• BDFutbol profile
• Samuel Slovák at fussballdaten.de (German)
• Samuel Slovák career stats at Soccerbase
• Stats at L'Équipe (French)
• Samuel Slovák at National-Football-Teams.com