Ľuboš Kamenár (born 17 June 1987) is a Slovak

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who plays as a

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for

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Club career

Kamenár made his first football steps in his hometown club

. He went through all the youth squads, until reaching the senior team, where he made five appearances. In February 2005, he signed for

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and in his first season there, he won the league although he was not first choice goalkeeper and played only one match. He qualified with Artmedia to the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League group stage but he did not get a chance. He became a first goalkeeper in the second half of the 2005–06 season when

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had to undergo treatment for a

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. He won the domestic league again in 2007–08. On 2 July 2009, the 22-year-old Kamenár left

to sign a five-year contract for French

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. He played 35 matches in his first season and finished 15th with Nantes. In the next season he lost his position in the club and moved on a half-year loan to

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. There he made only one appearance against

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on loan. He played 11 matches for the Sparta reserve squad. On 21 January 2012, he signed a half-year loan with option for his hometown club

. Kamenar completed a season-long loan move to Scottish giants

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on 31 August 2012 with the option to make the move permanent, but he eventually joined Hungarian side ETO Győr until 2016.

International career

Kamenár played his first international match for

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in a 3–1

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win over

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on 11 October 2008. In that match, he had conceded the sole goal that San Marino managed to score in the campaign, when he was beaten by San Marino's top scorer and most caped player Andy Selva, at the end of the first half. He recorded his other international cap in a friendly match against

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, in a 1–2 defeat at pod Dubňom in November 2009.

Honours

Petržalka *

Corgoň Liga The Slovak Super Liga is the top level football league in Slovakia, currently known as the Fortuna Liga due to a sponsorship arrangement. It was formed in 1993 following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. The record for most titles is eleven, he ...

: 2004–05, 2007–08 *

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: 2007–08 *

Slovak Super Cup The Slovak Super Cup (''Slovenský Superpohár'' in Slovak), in the past named as ''Matičný pohár'' or ''Pribinov pohár'', was a football match between the champion of the Corgoň Liga and winner of the Slovak Cup. The cup was played annually ...

: 2005 Spartak Trnava *

: 2021–22

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kamenar, Lubos 1987 births Living people Sportspeople from Trnava Association football goalkeepers Slovak footballers Slovak expatriate footballers Slovakia under-21 international footballers Slovakia youth international footballers Slovakia international footballers FC Spartak Trnava players FC Petržalka players FC Nantes players Sivasspor footballers AC Sparta Prague players Celtic F.C. players Győri ETO FC players Śląsk Wrocław players Vasas SC players Ekstraklasa players Slovak Super Liga players Ligue 2 players Süper Lig players Nemzeti Bajnokság I players Expatriate footballers in France Expatriate footballers in Turkey Expatriate footballers in the Czech Republic Expatriate footballers in Hungary Expatriate footballers in Poland Slovak expatriate sportspeople in France Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Slovak expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Hungary Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Poland