Michal Papadopulos (born 14 April 1985) is a Czech professional

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who most recently played as a forward for

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club

MFK Karviná MFK Karviná is a football club located in Karviná, Czech Republic. It plays in the Czech National Football League. The club took part in the Czech First League in 2016–2022. The team's colours are green and white. History Karviná as a mul ...

Career

Papadopulos started his football career in his native

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NH Ostrava FC Ostrava-Jih, formerly known as FC NH Ostrava, is a Czech football club from the city of Ostrava. The team played in the Czech 2. Liga for two seasons. The club played in the Moravian–Silesian Football League during the 1990s, winning the l ...

, and then

Baník Ostrava ''Baník'' is a Slovak word meaning "miner". Since the 1950s it has been part of the name of various sports clubs in Czechoslovakia associated mostly with coal mining regions. In Poland, the same practice was conducted with the name ''górnik''. ...

. He moved early to English club Arsenal in July 2003. He played one first-team match for Arsenal, in a

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match against

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as a substitute for Jérémie Aliadière. He returned to Baník in 2004. Papadopulos won the

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with Baník in 2005. In December 2005, he moved to German club Bayer Leverkusen, spending some time on loan at side

Energie Cottbus FC Energie Cottbus ( Lower Sorbian: ''Energija Chóśebuz'') is a German football club based in Cottbus, Brandenburg. It was founded in 1963 as SC Cottbus in what was East Germany. After the reunification of Germany, Energie played six seasons i ...

before signing with Czech side

Mladá Boleslav Mladá Boleslav (; german: Jungbunzlau) is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 42,000 inhabitants. Mladá Boleslav is the second most populated city in the region and a major centre of the Czech automotive in ...

in June 2008. In June 2009,

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signed the Czech forward from Mladá Boleslav on a five-year contract.

Personal life

Papadopulos is of Greek and Czech descent

Honours

Piast Gliwice *

Ekstraklasa Poland Ekstraklasa (), meaning "Extra Class" in Polish, named PKO Ekstraklasa since the 2019–20 season due to its sponsorship by PKO Bank Polski, is the top Polish professional league for men's association football teams. Contested by 18 ...

: 2018–19

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