Filip Rada (born 5 September 1984) is a

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player, who currently plays for

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as a

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. He is the son of former

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coach

Petr Rada Petr Rada (born 21 August 1958) is a Czech football coach and former player. He represented Czechoslovakia internationally in the 1980s and managed the Czech Republic national football team between 2008 and 2009. He is well known for his argume ...

Career

Early career

Rada started his footballing career at

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, going out on loan in his younger years. He joined

Bohemians 1905 Bohemians Praha 1905 (previously named FC Bohemians Praha) is a Prague-based football club, which was founded in 1905 as AFK Vršovice. The club won the 1982–83 Czechoslovak First League, its only league championship. Its colours are green a ...

in the

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on a year-long loan in 2005, keeping a

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in his first ever match in the Czech third tier. However Rada played just four league matches before moving on loan to

Břevnov Břevnov () is a district in the west of Prague, located in Prague 6. The district is home to the Břevnov Monastery (Czech: ''Břevnovský klášter''). On the territory of Břevnov stems Brusnice brook. Břevnov was first mentioned in the 10th c ...

of the same league in October 2005, where he remained for the rest of the 2005–06 season. Rada spent the following season on loan at

Blšany Blšany (german: Flöhau) is a town in Louny District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,000 inhabitants. Administrative parts Villages of Liběšovice, Malá Černoc, Siřem, Soběchleby and Stachov are administ ...

in the

Czech 2. Liga The Czech National Football League ( cs, Fotbalová národní liga, ''FNL''), currently known as Fortuna národní liga due to sponsorship reasons, is the second level professional association football league in the Czech Republic. Before 2013 it ...

Dukla Prague

Rada went on to

Dukla Prague Dukla Prague ( cz, Dukla Praha) was a Czech football club from the city of Prague. Established in 1948 as ATK Praha, the club won a total of 11 Czechoslovak league titles and eight Czechoslovak Cups, and in the 1966–67 season, reached the semi ...

in 2007, keeping three clean sheets in the first part of the

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. Rada played for Dukla in the second division for four years before the club celebrated promotion to the top-flight

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in 2011. Rada was responsible for two of the visiting team's goals in August 2011 as league champions

FC Viktoria Plzeň Football Club Viktoria Plzeň () is a Czech professional football club based in Plzeň. They play in the Czech First League, the top division of football in the country. As runners-up in the 1970–71 Czechoslovak Cup, the club gained the right ...

won 4–2 against Dukla in Prague, dropping the ball in the goal area immediately before one goal and kicking a goal kick along the ground directly to an opponent, allowing an easy goal on another occasion. In November 2012, Rada extended his contract with Dukla until the summer of 2015. He signed another extension to his contract, in the winter break of the 2018–2019 season, until 2022.

Honours

Club

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Career statistics

References

External links

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