David Lafata

David Lafata
David Lafata 2009
Personnel
birthday	September 18, 1981
place of birth	Budweis ,  Czechoslovakia
size	180 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1989-1992	JZD Olešník
1992-1999	SK České Budějovice
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1999-2001	SK České Budějovice	43 0(7)
2002	FC Vysočina Jihlava	5 0(1)
2002-2005	SK České Budějovice	79 (27)
2005-2006	Skoda Xanthi	9 0(0)
2006	FK BAUMIT Jablonec	14 0(4)
2007-2008	FK Austria Vienna	37 0(6)
2008–2012	FK BAUMIT Jablonec	130 (78)
2013-2018	Sparta Prague	148 (83)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1996-1997	Czech Republic U15	9 0(0)
1997	Czech Republic U16	3 0(0)
1998-1999	Czech Republic U17	8 0(2)
1999-2000	Czech Republic U18	13 0(6)
2001-2002	Czech Republic U20	6 0(0)
2002-2003	Czech Republic U21	13 0(3)
2006-2016	Czech Republic	41 0(9)
1 Only league games are given.

David Lafata (born September 18, 1981 in Budweis ) is a Czech football player .

Career

society

David Lafata began playing football at JZD Olešník and moved to SK České Budějovice at the age of eleven .

The attacker made his first appearances in the professional team in the 1999/00 season, but remained, as in the following season, without a goal. That changed only in the 2001/02 season in the 2nd division. Lafata scored his first goal for SK České Budějovice on the last day of the first half of the season against Baník Ratíškovice . In the second half of the season he was loaned to FC Vysočina Jihlava , for which he played five games in which he scored a goal. During the second half of the season he returned to Budějovice and contributed another six hits to the team's promotion to the first division.

In January 2005 he rejected a contract extension with his previous club and signed a contract valid from July 2005 with the Greek first division club Skoda Xanthi . He was then deported to the B-team by the club's management. After a few weeks he was allowed to train and play with the senior team again. The engagement in Xanthi was not very successful for Lafata, he remained in nine games without a goal.

In January 2006 he moved to FK BAUMIT Jablonec in the Czech league , for which he scored four goals in 14 games in 2005/06. At the end of August 2006, after a very successful start to the season, coach Karel Brückner was appointed to the Czech national team for the game against Wales . He was substituted on in the 75th minute of the game and scored two goals, the Czech Republic won 2-1.

At the end of January 2007 he moved to FK Austria Wien in Austria . With the violets he was the ÖFB Cup winner in the same year , where he headed the equalizer in the 2-1 against SV Mattersburg . In 2007/08 he played with Austria in the UEFA Cup group stage. At the end of July 2008 Lafata went back to FK Jablonec. Lafata scored ten league goals in the first season after his return and eleven in the following season. In the 2010/11 season he was the top scorer in the Gambrinus League with 19 goals . His good form continued in the first half of the 2011/12 season, in which he scored 17 goals in 14 games. In the North Bohemian derby against Slovan Liberec on November 26, 2011 Lafata scored his 100th first division goal and thus became a member of the club ligových kanonýrů .

In January 2013 he moved to Sparta Prague .

National team

At the European Football Championship in France in 2016 , he was included in the Czech squad . When the score was 0: 1 in the opening game against Spain, he was substituted on in the final quarter of an hour. He was in the starting line-up against Croatia and was substituted in the last third and then not considered against Turkey. The Czech Republic was eliminated as the bottom group.

successes

• Austrian cup winner 2007
• Czech championship 2014
• Czech cup winner 2014
• Footballer of the year in the Czech Republic 2014
• Top scorer in the Czech first division in 2010/11 , 2011/12 , 2012/13 , 2014/15 , 2015/16

Web links

Commons : David Lafata  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• David Lafata in the database of weltfussball.de
• Profile on fotbal.idnes.cz (Czech)
• International match statistics (Czech)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sen se splnil. Lafata se vrací do Jablonce! ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Report on the website of FK Jablonec of July 30, 2008. Accessed July 30, 2008, in Czech.  
2. ↑ Útočník Lafata vstřelil stý gól a dostal se do Klubu ligových kanonýrů fotbal.idnes.cz of November 26, 2011. Retrieved November 27, 2011, in Czech.