Adam Jakubech

Adam Jakubech
Jakubech in 2023
Personal information
Date of birth (1997-01-02) 2 January 1997 (age 27)
Place of birth Prešov, Slovakia
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Tatran Prešov
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014 Tatran Prešov 12 (0)
2015–2017 Spartak Trnava 49 (0)
2017–2024 Lille II 25 (0)
2019–2021 → Kortrijk (loan) 25 (0)
International career
2014–2016 Slovakia U18 9 (0)
2015–2016 Slovakia U19 3 (0)
2016–2018 Slovakia U21 2 (0)
2017 Slovakia (unofficial) 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 July 2024

Adam Jakubech (born 2 January 1997) is a Slovak professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.

Club career

Spartak Trnava

Jakubech signed for Spartak Trnava in January 2015.[2] In 2015, he usually played in II. liga for the reserves squad, being featured in a total of 17 games.[citation needed] In the second to last round of the 2014–15 season, he managed to debut for Spartak's senior team, when he played against Dukla Banská Bystrica on 23 May 2015 under Juraj Jarábek.[citation needed] Spartak won the home fixture at Štadión Antona Malatinského 3–1. Jakubech lost the clean sheet by a 90th-minute goal from Jozef Rejdovian.[citation needed]

In the two subsequent seasons he recorded 47 starts for Spartak in the Fortuna liga.[citation needed] By the 2016–17 season, Jakubech was Spartak's uncontested preferred goalkeeper.[citation needed]

During the summer of 2017, it was announced that Lille had shown interest in Jakubech. In the 2017–18 season, he was only featured in a first round match against Zemplín Michalovce.[citation needed] Spartak won the game 1–0, thanks to an early goal by Štefan Pekár.[citation needed] The squad of Serbian-born British coach Nestor El Maestro went on to win Spartak's first title in 45 years that season, with Martin Vantruba replacing Jakubech and winning himself a transfer to Slavia Prague after the season.[citation needed]

Lille

Jakubech's transfer to OSC Lille was announced in late July 2017.[3] He spent the 2017–18 season in Lille's lower division reserves squad.

However for the 2018–19 season, Jakubech was, for most of the games, benched as the replacement keeper for Mike Maignan. Nonetheless, he did not make a competitive appearance for the first time. Despite this fact, he was cited, in October 2018, as happy, in Lille, acknowledging the benefits the training process has on his career and performance.[citation needed] He also claimed, that the move to France caused him some difficult months at the start.[4] Lille went on to finish second in this season, 16 points behind Paris Saint-Germain, but only three ahead of Lyon. Still, they qualified directly to the group stage of the next edition of UEFA Champions League.[citation needed] In 2022, Jakubech's club profile read that he is second or third preferred goalkeeper but had continuously provided professionalism to the club.[5]

International career

Jakubech was first called up for Slovakia's two unofficial friendly fixtures in Abu Dhabi, in January 2017 against Uganda and Sweden. He made his debut against Uganda, when he substituted Michal Šulla in the 46th minute, conceding a goal in 77th minute by Geofrey Massa after a corner kick, which marked the 1–3 defeat. Jakubech did not appear in the 0–6 loss against Sweden later that week.[6][7]

He was next called up to the squad in October 2018, when Matúš Kozáčik had to withdraw due to an illness. He was called up to the squad, although he was set to prepare with the U21 for UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification fixtures against Estonia and Northern Ireland, joining Martin Dúbravka and Michal Šulla.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Adam Jakubech" (in French). Lille OSC. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Brankársky talent Adam Jakubech sa upísal Trnave". www.spartak.sk. Archived from the original on 4 February 2015.
  3. ^ "Jakubech sa rozlúčil čistým kontom, mieri do Lille! | ProFutbal.sk". profutbal.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  4. ^ "Jakubech prestup z Trnavy neľutuje, v OSC Lille je už druhý brankár v prvom tíme". Webnoviny.sk (in Slovak). 11 October 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  5. ^ "Adam Jakubech | LOSC". www.losc.fr. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  6. ^ "Prípravný futbalový zápas: Slovensko prehralo s Ugandou 1:3". Archived from the original on 30 August 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  7. ^ "Slováci prehrali so Švédskom 0:6. To je niečo strašné, hovorí Kozák". Archived from the original on 30 August 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  8. ^ "Slováci sa zišli pred derby s Českom. Máme jeden problém, vraví Kozák". Pravda.sk (in Slovak). 9 October 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.