Plašil training with Bordeaux in 2015
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Jaroslav Plašil | ||
Date of birth | 5 January 1982 | ||
Place of birth | Opočno, Czechoslovakia | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Playing position | Midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Bordeaux | ||
Number | 18 | ||
Youth career | |||
1987–1992 | Sokol Černíkovice | ||
1992–1993 | Spartak Rychnov nad Kněžnou | ||
1993–1998 | Hradec Králové | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1998–2000 | Hradec Králové | 4 | (0) |
2000–2007 | Monaco | 120 | (5) |
2002–2003 | → Créteil (loan) | 14 | (0) |
2007–2009 | Osasuna | 66 | (8) |
2009– | Bordeaux | 228 | (14) |
2013–2014 | → Catania (loan) | 28 | (1) |
National team‡ | |||
2002–2003 | Czech Republic U21 | 16 | (1) |
2004–2016 | Czech Republic | 103 | (7) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14 January 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22 June 2016 |
Jaroslav Plašil (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaroslaf ˈplaʃɪl]; born 5 January 1982) is a Czech footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bordeaux in Ligue 1 and the Czech Republic national football team.
He spent most of his career in France with Monaco and Bordeaux, also having two seasons with Osasuna in Spain and a loan to Catania in Italy.
Plašil has earned over 100 caps for the Czech Republic since his debut in 2004. He represented them at four UEFA European Championships and the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Plašil, aged 18, was signed by Monaco in 2000 but in his first two-year spell he could only pick 8 matches as a starter and was subsequently loaned to Ligue 2 club Créteil. After a decent performance, Plašil returned to Monaco at the start of the 2003 season and for the next four years he was a regular in the starting team and even enjoyed his finest moment in the 2003–04 season when the principality side reached the final of the UEFA Champions League. In that season, Plašil contributed a goal to Monaco's record-breaking 8–3 defeat of Deportivo La Coruña.
On 25 August 2007, Plašil signed a four-year deal at La Liga team CA Osasuna for a fee of €2.25 million, to replace the injured Javad Nekounam.