Jakub Sklenář (footballer)

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Jakub Sklenář
Personal information
Date of birth (1990-11-18) 18 November 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth Czechoslovakia
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Dukla Jižní Město
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2013 Dukla Prague 6 (1)
2011 → Kladno (loan) 14 (5)
2011 → Sezimovo Ústí (loan) 14 (3)
2012 → Pardubice (loan) 13 (1)
2013 → Čáslav (loan) 12 (0)
2013 → Zápy (loan)
2015–2016 Narrabeen FC
2016–2017 Olympia Warriors 19 (28)
2017–2018 Hobart Zebras
2018 Vrchovina 8 (0)
2019 ECU Joondalup
2020– Dukla Jižní Město
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:12, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

Jakub Sklenář (born 18 November 1990) is a professional Czech football player who currently plays for Dukla Jižní Město.[1] Sklenář was on the books of FK Dukla Prague for three years, although he frequently left the club on loan, having spells with a number of Second League teams.

Sklenář made his Gambrinus liga debut for Dukla in a July 2011 match against SK Sigma Olomouc as a substitute. He subsequently went out on loan to Czech 2. Liga side Sezimovo Ústí for the first half of the season, scoring four goals in fifteen appearances. Upon his return to Dukla in 2012, Sklenář was rewarded with his first Gambrinus liga start, which he marked by being sent off for two yellow cards after 62 minutes in a game against FC Viktoria Plzeň.[2] He finished his first season in the top flight with five appearances, four of those from the substitutes' bench.

In July 2012 Sklenář joined Czech 2. Liga side FK Pardubice in a loan deal. In January 2013 he joined FK Čáslav on loan for the second half of the 2012–13 Czech 2. Liga.[3] Sklenář left Dukla in summer 2013 at the end of his contract.[4]

Sklenář joined Australian club Narrabeen FC in 2015.[5] He then joined Olympia FC Warriors for the 2016/17 season. In July 2017, he scored four goals in under seven minutes for the club against Launceston City FC and he ended the season scoring 28 goals for the club.[6][7] He became the player of the year in the National Premier Leagues Tasmania and the player who scored most goals in that season.

The next season, he played for Hobart Zebras FC.[8] For the 2018/19 season, Sklenář joined SFK Vrchovina.[9]

Later career

Since Sklenář moved to Australia, he coached the youth teams at the clubs he was playing for. When Sklenář joined ECU Joondalup SC on 18 January 2019, the club also announced, that he would be coaching the clubs U-14 squad.[5]

In January 2020, he returned to Czech Republic, and began training with Dukla Jižní Město,[10] before he began playing for the club in August 2020.[11]

References

  1. ^ Jakub Sklenář – Czech First League statistics at Fotbal DNES (in Czech) Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Plzeň – Dukla 1:1, brankář Čech zaváhal a mistr poosmé ztratil body". idnes.cz (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. 26 February 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
  3. ^ "Radoš a Sklenář odcházejí na hostování". fkdukla.cz (in Czech). 30 January 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  4. ^ "Gambrinus liga, přestupy: změny v prvoligových mužstvech v létě 2013". idnes.cz (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  5. ^ a b Jacks sign international striker, ecujoondalup.com.au, 18 January 2019
  6. ^ Launceston City equals its worse NPL Tasmania game of the year courtesy of Olympia's brilliant Jakub Sklenar, examiner.com.au, 2 July 2017
  7. ^ Player statistics for Jakub Sklenar – SportsTG, sportstg.com
  8. ^ Launceston City concede NPL Tasmania lead after Hobart Zebras win on Anzac Day, examiner.com.au, 25 April 2018
  9. ^ léto 18/19 :: Čeští fotbalisté v zahraničí, cesti-fotbaliste-v-zahranici.webnode.cz, 24 December 2018
  10. ^ Dukla JM vyrazila do přípravy jako poslední, na jaře se chce polepšit. Zkouší posilu z Austrálie, fkduklajm.cz, 19 February 2020
  11. ^ Profile at Fotbal Praha, fotbalpraha.cz