Marek Sapara

Marek Sapara
Personnel
birthday	July 31, 1982
place of birth	Košice ,  Czechoslovakia
size	176 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1999	VSS Košice
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2000	FK Krasna nad Hornadom	26 0(3)
2000-2002	1. FC Košice	79 0(9)
2002-2006	MFK Ružomberok
2006-2010	Rosenborg Trondheim	56 (14)
2010-2011	MKE Ankaragücü	34 0(4)
2011-2013	Trabzonspor	28 0(2)
2012	→  Gaziantepspor  (loan)	16 0(3)
2014	Gaziantepspor	10 0(2)
2014-2015	Osmanlıspor FK	7 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2005-2013	Slovakia	38 0(5)
1 Only league games are given. As of January 24, 2015

Marek Sapara (born July 31, 1982 in Košice ) is a Slovak football player.

Club career

Slovakia

Marek Sapara started his career in Košice, where he attended a sports high school. In the 1999/2000 season he was able to win the national youth championship with the team from VSS Košice, whereupon the 1. FC Košice signed him . After a short loan to the third-rate club Krasna nad Hornadom, he was finally able to establish himself in Košice.

In 2001 , Sapara had to do his legally required army service in Košice. Although he was stationed in his home country, he was rarely able to participate in training and so lost his status as a regular player. After the end of nine months of military service, the sporting situation of his club had deteriorated so much that Sapara pressed for a change.

The sporting reorientation led him to MFK Ružomberok , although several other clubs from the Czech Republic and Slovakia were interested in him. At Ruzomberok he was appointed captain before the 2005/06 season and then led the team to championship and cup victory.

Norway

In August 2006, Sapara moved to Rosenborg Trondheim in Norway for a transfer fee of around 1.3 million euros , where he became an important part of midfield. The midfielder played his first game in Norway on September 10, 2006 against Sandefjord Fotball . He is considered one of the best players in the Norwegian Tippeligaen .

Turkey

In January 2010, Sapara moved to Turkey to join MKE Ankaragücü . Ankaragücü got into major financial difficulties during the 2011/12 season and was unable to pay the players' salaries for a long period of time. As a result, many players, including Sapara, had to be released under contract and could leave the club free of charge. Then Sapara moved to the traditional club Trabzonspor in September 2011 . Here he signed a three-year contract.

For the second half of the 2011/12 season he was loaned to Gaziantepspor as a partial replacement for Olcan Adın until the end of the season to the league rivals from southern Anatolia . Here Sapara convinced right away and became one of the shooting stars of the second half of the season. Gaziantepspor tried to bind Sapara and the transfer fee to itself, but Trabzonspor refused a levy. After the 2012/13 season, Sapara's contract was terminated.

In January 2014, he signed another contract with Gaziantepspor . For the new season he was hired by the second division team Ankaraspor . At the end of the first half of the season he left this club again.

National team

Before starting his senior national team career, Sapara played ten games for the Slovak U21s. He made his senior national team debut in October 2005 in the World Cup qualifying match between Slovakia and Estonia .

Achievements / Awards

Success with his teams

• With MFK Ružomberok
  • Slovak champion: 2006
  • Slovak Cup Winner: 2006

• With Rosenborg Trondheim
  • Norwegian champion: 2006

• With Gaziantepspor:
  • Spor Toto Cup : 2012

Awards

• Season's Eleven Award: 2006
• Player of the Month: October 2006

Web links

• Marek Sapara in the database of weltfussball.de
• Marek Sapara in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English)
• Marek Sapara in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Marek Sapara in the mackolik.com database (Turkish)
• Marek Sapara in the database of kicker.de
• Player profile at Rosenborg Trondheim

Individual evidence

1. ↑ transfermarkt.de profile
2. ↑ futbal.sme.sk Trabzonspor posilní okrem Čecha aj Vittek a Sapara published and accessed on September 2, 2011, in Slovak
3. ↑ amkspor.com: Sapara veda etti ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2013 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. (accessed on July 29, 2013) 
4. ↑ Marek Sapara yeniden Süper Lig'de! ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 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.