Boris Prokopič (born 29 March 1988) is a

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who plays as a midfielder for Brühl in the Swiss third-tier

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. Born in what is now Slovakia, Prokopič was a youth international for Austria.

Career

Prokopić began his career in the youth from

SV Horn SV Horn is an Austrian association football club playing in the city of Horn. The club plays in the Austrian Second League. The team was champion of the Landesliga Niederösterreich in 1991, 1998 and 2007. In 2008, SV Horn won the Austrian C ...

. In 2006, at the age of sixteen, he joined to the academy from

Rapid Wien Sportklub Rapid Wien (), commonly known as Rapid Vienna, is an Austrian football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. Rapid has won the most Austrian championship titles (32), including the first title in the season 1911–12, ...

and after one year was promoted to the reserve team. Here he played during summer 2008 then was called from

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for the Kampfmannschaft. On 8 July 2008 the first game of the 2008–09 season he gave his debut against

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. In the 2009–10 season in winter he was loaned out to

FC Wacker Innsbruck (2002) FC Wacker Innsbruck is an Austrian association football club from Innsbruck. The club was formed in June 2002 as ''FC Wacker Tirol'', and plays their home games at Tivoli-Neu. The club regard themselves as the spiritual continuation of the tea ...

.In first season they were playing

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. In the second season they were promoted to

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. He made 29 appearances and scored 5 goals for Innsbruck. In winter 2011 he returned to Rapid Wien. He played there until January 2013. He made 29 appearances and scored 5 goals. In January 2013 he left Rapid Wien and joined

SCR Altach Sportclub Rheindorf Altach, also known as Rheindorf Altach, SCR Altach or simply SCRA, is an Austrian association football club based in Altach, Vorarlberg. It plays in the Austrian Football Bundesliga. The club is currently also known as CASH ...

. He played there until January 2019. He made 113 appearances and scored 13 goals. In January 2019 he joined

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. In August 2020 they were promoted to the

Swiss Super League The Swiss Super League (known as the Credit Suisse Super League for sponsorship reasons) is a Swiss professional league in the top tier of the Swiss football league system and has been played in its current format since the 2003–04 season ...

. In June 2022, Prokopič moved to Brühl in Switzerland.

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* 1988 births Living people Austrian people of Slovak descent Sportspeople from Poprad Footballers from the Prešov Region Austrian men's footballers Slovak men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Austria men's youth international footballers Austrian Football Bundesliga players 2. Liga (Austria) players Swiss Challenge League players Swiss Promotion League players SK Rapid Wien players FC Wacker Innsbruck (2002) players SC Rheindorf Altach players FC Vaduz players SC Brühl players Austrian expatriate men's footballers Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Liechtenstein Expatriate men's footballers in Liechtenstein Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland Czechoslovak emigrants to Austria {{austria-footy-midfielder-stub