Aleš Čeh (born 7 April 1968) is a former Slovenian

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er who played as a

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. He represented

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...

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and the

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Club career

Čeh played for the youth team of Slovan, and later also for their city rivals Olimpija. In 1992, he transferred to the Austrian second division side

Grazer AK Grazer AK, founded 18 August 1902 as Grazer Athletiksport Klub (in Austria the abbreviation GAK is more common), is an Austrian sports club, from the city of Graz in the federal state of Styria (''Steiermark''). The football section used to be on ...

. With his steady midfield-play, he helped the team back to the top flight in 1995. After winning the

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and the

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in 2000 and 2002, he left GAK in summer 2003 and signed for

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until winter 2004, when he went back to Austria, this time to

LASK Linz Linzer Athletik-Sport-Klub, commonly known as Linzer ASK () or simply LASK, is an Austrian professional football club, from the Upper-Austrian state capital Linz. It is the oldest football club in that region, and plays in the Austrian Football ...

. After that he moved back to Olimpija Ljubljana. He retired from football after the 2008–09 season and worked at the club initially as a youth coach and later as assistant manager to

Dušan Kosič Dušan Kosič (born 23 April 1971) is a Slovenian professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Slovenian PrvaLiga club Tabor Sežana. Club career Kosič is the second-most capped player in the Slovenian PrvaLiga with ...

. In June 2011 he took up the position of manager at Grazer AK.

International career

Čeh was capped 74 times and scored one goal for

. He was a participant at the 2000 European Championship and the

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Career statistics

International

:''Scores and results list Slovenia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Čeh goal.''

Honours

Olimpija *

Slovenian PrvaLiga The Slovenian PrvaLiga ( sl, Prva slovenska nogometna liga, ), currently named Prva liga Telemach due to sponsorship reasons, also known by the abbreviation 1. SNL, is the top level of the Football in Slovenia, Slovenian football league system. ...

: 1991–92 GAK *

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: 2000, 2002 *

: 2000, 2002 Maribor *

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: 2003–04

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