Michal Papadopulos
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Michal Papadopulos | ||
Date of birth | 14 April 1985 | ||
Place of birth | Ostrava, Czechoslovakia | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Piast Gliwice | ||
Number | 27 | ||
Youth career | |||
1992–1998 | NH Ostrava | ||
1998–2002 | Baník Ostrava | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2002–2005 | Baník Ostrava | 51 | (9) |
2003–2004 | → Arsenal (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2006–2008 | Bayer Leverkusen | 19 | (0) |
2008 | → Energie Cottbus (loan) | 14 | (2) |
2008–2009 | Mladá Boleslav | 29 | (10) |
2009–2011 | Heerenveen | 27 | (7) |
2011 | Zhemchuzhina | 14 | (5) |
2011–2012 | FC Rostov | 9 | (1) |
2012–2017 | Zagłębie Lubin | 125 | (30) |
2017– | Piast Gliwice | 27 | (7) |
International career | |||
2000–2001 | Czech Republic U15 | 6 | (1) |
2001–2002 | Czech Republic U17 | 18 | (7) |
2002–2004 | Czech Republic U19 | 16 | (5) |
2004–2007 | Czech Republic U21 | 27 | (4) |
2008–2011 | Czech Republic | 6 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 31 October 2017 |
Michal Papadopulos (born 14 April 1985) is a Czech footballer of Greek and Czech descent[1] who currently plays for Polish club Piast Gliwice.
Career
Papadopulos started his football career in his native Ostrava at NH Ostrava, and then Baník Ostrava. He moved early to English club Arsenal in July 2003. He played just one first-team match for Arsenal, in a League Cup match against Wolverhampton Wanderers as a substitute for Jérémie Aliadière. He returned to Baník in 2004. Papadopulos won the Czech Cup with Baník in 2005. In December 2005, he moved to Bayer Leverkusen, spending some time on loan at German side Energie Cottbus before signing with Czech side Mladá Boleslav in June 2008.[2] In June 2009, SC Heerenveen signed the Czech forward from Mladá Boleslav on a five-year contract.[3]
References
- ^ "Papadopulos: Na Spartu jsem se necítil" (in Czech). iSport.cz. 31 October 2008. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
- ^ "Útočník Papadopulos se vrátil do české ligy, podepsal Mladé Boleslavi". Mladá fronta DNES. 24 June 2008. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
- ^ "Boleslav star joins Heerenveen". Sky Sports. 17 June 2009. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
External links
- Michal Papadopulos at Soccerbase
- Michal Papadopulos at FAČR (in Czech)
- Michal Papadopulos – Czech First League statistics at Fotbal DNES (in Czech)
- Michal Papadopulos at 90minut.pl (in Polish)
- Use dmy dates from January 2011
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Czech footballers
- Czech Republic youth international footballers
- Czech Republic under-21 international footballers
- Czech First League players
- FC Baník Ostrava players
- FK Mladá Boleslav players
- Arsenal F.C. players
- Bayer 04 Leverkusen players
- FC Energie Cottbus players
- SC Heerenveen players
- FC Rostov players
- Zagłębie Lubin players
- Piast Gliwice players
- Bundesliga players
- Eredivisie players
- Czech Republic international footballers
- Czech expatriate footballers
- Czech expatriates in England
- Expatriate footballers in England
- Czech expatriates in Germany
- Expatriate footballers in Germany
- Czech expatriates in the Netherlands
- Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands
- Czech people of Greek descent
- Sportspeople from Ostrava
- FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi players
- Expatriate footballers in Russia
- Russian Premier League players
- Ekstraklasa players
- Expatriate footballers in Poland
- Czech expatriates in Poland
- Association football forwards