Róbert Vittek
Vittek in 2008
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Róbert Vittek | ||
| Date of birth | 1 April 1982 | ||
| Place of birth | Bratislava, Czechoslovakia | ||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Slovan Bratislava | ||
| Number | 33 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Slovan Bratislava | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1999–2003 | Slovan Bratislava | 101 | (47) |
| 2003–2008 | 1. FC Nürnberg | 124 | (36) |
| 2008–2010 | Lille | 38 | (7) |
| 2010 | → Ankaragücü (loan) | 12 | (5) |
| 2010–2011 | Ankaragücü | 12 | (1) |
| 2011–2013 | Trabzonspor | 6 | (2) |
| 2013 | İstanbul BBSK | 0 | (0) |
| 2013–2016 | Slovan Bratislava | 47 | (22) |
| 2016 | Debrecen | 8 | (2) |
| 2017– | Slovan Bratislava | 0 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2001– | Slovakia | 81 | (23) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14 December 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 29 March 2016 |
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Róbert Vittek (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈroːbert ˈʋitek]; born 1 April 1982) is a Slovak football player who currently plays for ŠK Slovan Bratislava.
With 23 goals in 82 matches since 2001, Vittek is the leading scorer in the history of the Slovakia national football team. He played for Slovakia at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, scoring four goals.
Vittek began his career in the youth team of hometown club Slovan Bratislava in 1999. He was then promoted to the first team for the 1999–2000 campaign. While still a youth player, he signed a preliminary agreement with Real Madrid, but the move to Spain fell through due to injury. He was 19 at the time and scored 19 goals for Slovan. The next season he played only three games, scoring twice. Before moving to Germany, Vittek had a trial at Birmingham City and impressed the club enough that they made a move for him. However the move never materialized.
He came to Nürnberg in 2003, while the club was still in the 2. Bundesliga, helping the team earn promotion to the Bundesliga for the 2004–05 campaign. During the first half of the 2004–05 season, Vittek signed a long-term contract.
Vittek scored only five goals in the 2004–05 campaign, and the following year he failed to score in the first 17 matches before the winter break. With the arrival of new coach Hans Meyer, however, he scored 16 goals in the final 16 games of the 2005–06 season. He made league history in Spieltag 24 and 25, becoming the first Bundesliga player to score a combined six goals in two consecutive games. In all, Vittek had five multi-goal games on the season, and his 16 goals were good for fifth place on the Bundesliga scoring charts. Vittek's rise was mirrored by his team as 1. FC Nürnberg rose from near-relegation to eighth place. He established a new record by scoring six goals in a row without an intervening goal from another player in the last two games against MSV Duisburg and 1. FC Köln respectively. In the next game, he scored two more goals against SV Werder Bremen, and just missed the league record of Lothar Emmerich and Tomislav Marić with four braces. His 2005–06 performance made Vittek a sought-after player in European football. Hamburger SV was the main Bundesliga club rumored to be courting Vittek.Dynamo Kiev offered a €10 million transfer fee for Vittek in June 2006, but Nürnberg rejected the offer. Lokomotiv Moscow was also reported to have interest in Vittek's services.
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