Jiří Sabou (born 5 December 1974 in
Beroun
Beroun (; german: Beraun) is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 20,000 inhabitants. It lies at the confluence of the Berounka and Litavka rivers. Beroun creates a conurbation with Králův Dvůr, former par ...
) is a Czech professional
footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...
(
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
).
Career
Born in
Beroun
Beroun (; german: Beraun) is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 20,000 inhabitants. It lies at the confluence of the Berounka and Litavka rivers. Beroun creates a conurbation with Králův Dvůr, former par ...
, Sabou began playing youth football for FK Beroun. He joined
FK Viktoria Žižkov
FK Viktoria Žižkov is one of the oldest football clubs in the Czech Republic, from Žižkov (since 1922 part of Prague). It plays in the Bohemian Football League, the third tier of football in the country. The club won the Czechoslovak First ...
in 1998 and would play for the club until it was relegated from the Czech top flight in 2004. Sabou joined
FK Teplice
FK Teplice is a Czech football club based in the city of Teplice. The club currently plays in the Czech First League.
The club was founded after World War II in 1945. The club advanced to the Czechoslovak First League in just three years after ...
for the next four seasons. He rejoined Viktoria Žižkov in January 2009, and in his first match on 22 February 2009 he received a yellow card after 10 minutes and then scored an equaliser with the last touch of the game, 3 minutes into time added on.
External links
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Profile at JFK-Fotbal
1974 births
Living people
People from Beroun
Czech men's footballers
Czech First League players
FK Viktoria Žižkov players
FK Teplice players
Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from the Central Bohemian Region
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