Jan Polák

Jan Polák

Personal information
Full name	Jan Polák
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	midfielder
Team information
Current team	Anderlecht
Number	8
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12 September 2007

Jan Polák (born 14 March 1981 in Brno) is a Czech international footballer. He currently plays for the Belgian team R.S.C. Anderlecht.

In his younger days he played for 1. FC Brno and Tatran Bohunice. Formerly a member of the Czech national under-21 side, Polák, alongside players like Petr Čech and Milan Baroš, was a part of the team which won the European Under-21 Football Championship in 2002.

In 2005 he was transferred from the Czech Premier League team FC Slovan Liberec for a fee of €1,500,000 to the Bundesliga side 1. FC Nuremberg. In the same year he played for the first time under Czech national coach Karel Brückner.

On August 3 2007 Anderlecht bought Polak. He was given number 8. The Czech international reportedly cost €3.5 million. He is the second most expensive transfer in Anderlecht's history, as well as one of the highest paid players in Belgian football. He is Anderlecht's box-to-box midfielder playing a crucial role in their 2007-08 Jupiler League season and the UEFA Cup 2007-08.

References

• Template:Cs icon ČMFS entry
• Anderlecht Online English

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