Dušan Kuciak

Dušan Kuciak
Dušan Kuciak in action for Legia Warsaw (2011)
Personnel
birthday	May 21, 1985
place of birth	Žilina ,  Czechoslovakia
size	194 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2001	MŠK Žilina
2001-2002	FK AS Trenčín
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2001-2002	FK AS Trenčín	1 (0)
2002-2008	MŠK Žilina	89 (0)
2005	→  West Ham United  (Loan)	0 (0)
2008-2011	FC Vaslui	87 (0)
2011-2016	Legia Warsaw	131 (0)
2016-2017	Hull City	0 (0)
2017–	Lechia Gdańsk	53 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	Slovakia U-21
2006-2013	Slovakia	10 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of May 19, 2018

Dušan Kuciak (born May 21, 1985 in Žilina , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak football player . He has been under contract with Lechia Gdańsk in Ekstraklasa , Poland , since February 2017 .

Career

society

Dušan Kuciak began his professional career in 2001 at the age of 16 with FK AS Trenčín . Since he mostly just sat on the bench, he moved two years later to the Slovakian champions MŠK Žilina , who was looking for an aspiring young goalkeeper. There he got more time and played between 2003 and 2008, interrupted only by a brief stint at the English club West Ham United to which he was loaned in 2005, a total of 89 games.

In 2008 he moved to Romania to FC Vaslui . Here he reached the cup final in 2010 and, with a third place at the end of the 2010/11 season, qualified for the Champions League . He then left the club and joined the Polish first division club Legia Warsaw .

In February 2016, Kuciak moved to the English second division club Hull City . There he is number three behind David Marshall and Eldin Jakupović . After not being used for Hull, he returned to Poland in early February 2017, where he joined first division side Lechia Gdańsk .

National team

On December 10, 2006, Kuciak played his first A international match against the United Arab Emirates. With the Slovak national team he qualified for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa . There he was a substitute goalkeeper behind Ján Mucha .

titles and achievements

• World Cup participant: 2010
• Slovak champion: 2007
• Slovak Cup Winner: 2007
• Polish Cup Winner : 2012 , 2013 , 2015
• Polish champion : 2013 , 2014

Web links

Commons : Dušan Kuciak  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dušan Kuciak in the database of weltfussball.de
• Dušan Kuciak in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Dušan Kuciak in the 90minut.pl database (Polish)
• Dušan Kuciak in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)