Zdeněk Grygera

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Zdeněk Grygera
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Zdeněk Grygera at Ajax Amsterdam
Personnel
birthday May 14, 1980
place of birth PřílepyCzechoslovakia
size 184 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1987-1990 TJ Holešov
1990-1997 FK Zlín
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1997-1998 FK Zlín 20 (1)
1998-2000 Petra Drnovice 54 (3)
2000-2003 Sparta Prague 65 (2)
2003-2007 Ajax Amsterdam 78 (8)
2007-2011 Juventus Turin 88 (3)
2011–2012 Fulham FC 5 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1997-1998 Czech Republic U-17 9 (1)
1997-1999 Czech Republic U-18 11 (0)
2000-2002 Czech Republic U-21 14 (1)
2001-2009 Czech Republic 66 (2)
1 Only league games are given.

Zdeněk Grygera [ ˈzdɛɲɛk ˈgrɪgɛra ] (born May 14, 1980 in Přílepy , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech football player . He was a defender and could be used both in central defense and on the right side of defense.

Career

In the club

From FK Zlín , where Grygera had matured as a footballer, he moved to the Czech first division team Petra Drnovice at the age of 18 . He immediately had a permanent place in the defense and achieved the best placement in the club's history with the club in 2000 with third place in the championship. He then moved to the champions Sparta Prague , where he saw the title defense as a supplementary player. In 2003, meanwhile an important regular player, he won his second championship title and then moved abroad.

From 2003 to 2007, the versatile defender played in the Dutch Eredivisie at the top club Ajax Amsterdam . There he was able to celebrate a championship, two cup wins and twice winning the Johan Cruyff Schaal , the Supercup trophy. Grygera also played numerous Champions League games for the Dutch.

In the summer of 2007, Zdeněk Grygera moved to the Italian record champions Juventus Turin , who had just been promoted back to Serie A after the manipulation scandal . There he is mostly a regular player in the season so far.

For the 2011/2012 season he moved to the English Premier League for Fulham FC . On December 6, 2012, Martin Jol announced that Grygera was ending his career.

In the national team

Zdeněk Grygera began his national team career in 1997 in the Czech U-17 selection . At the turn of the millennium he was a top performer in the Czech U-21 team and was able to celebrate second place with the team in 2000 at the U-21 European Championship in Slovakia .

After a total of 34 junior internationals, he made his debut on August 15, 2001 in the Czech national team . At the 2004 European Championships in Portugal , he was in the Czech squad and only failed with his team in the semifinals at the eventual European champions Greece . Grygera played four of the five games in this tournament. At the 2006 World Cup in Germany , he was also part of the squad and was again a regular in Karel Brückner's team. However, this time Grygera was eliminated with the Czech Republic after the preliminary round . In the World Cup qualifying round , he played six out of ten possible games. In October 2009 Grygera completed his last international match.

successes

Web links

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