Miroslav Hýll (born 20 September 1973) is a Slovak football manager and former player who recently managed

FC ŠTK 1914 Šamorín ŠTK 1914 Šamorín is a Slovak football team, based in the town of Šamorín. The club was founded in 1914. In the season 2009/2010, they were promoted to Slovak Third League. In season 2015/16 the club was promoted to the Slovak Second Leagu ...

. A

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, he spent most of his career with

Inter Bratislava FK Inter Bratislava () is a football club based in Bratislava, Slovakia, temporarily playing its home matches in Stupava. History Inter Bratislava was founded in 1940 by the Apollo refinery (later renamed Slovnaft). Following the end of World Wa ...

. He made six appearances for the Slovakia national team.

Early life

Miroslav Hýll was born in

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, Slovakia on 20 September 1973.

Career

Hýll won the

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with

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, together with players such as

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and Patrik Berger. Hýll played all three group games and the semi-final without conceding any goals, before his team beat Portugal 3–2 in the final. He spent most of his football career at

. At Inter he won the

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three times, in 1995 and 2000 and then won the ''double'' ( league title and the Slovak Cup) in 2001. His best performance in European competition was the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League qualifying round, where Inter Bratislava reached the third qualifying round before being eliminated by Lyon. Hýll played three years in Iran for the clubs

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, Zob Ahan and

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, interspersed with a short spell in Austrian

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