Patrik Gedeon (born 19 July 1975) is a Czech

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who plays as a

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for

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. He has played international football for the

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Club career

Gedeon played for six years at Chmel Blšany, where he was captain. In 2001, Gedeon moved to Slavia Prague, signing a three-year contract for a transfer fee of 12 million

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. He served as Slavia's captain during his time at the club. Gedeon sustained a knee injury after playing just five games in the 2003/04 season, and although he attempted to make a comeback in a game against Slovácko, he lasted just 17 minutes and did not feature for Slavia's first team for the rest of the season. In September 2005, Gedeon suffered a knee injury in a game against

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. Gedeon missed two months of the season with the injury before returning to Slavia's first team in a match against Blšany in November, where he wore the captain's armband. In January 2006, Gedeon headed to

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to play for FC Vaduz in the

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, signing a -year contract. However, in July of the same year Gedeon left Vaduz and joined Czech manager

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. In the summer of 2007, Gedeon signed an amateur contract with Chmel Blšany, where he played the first half of the 2007/08 season. In January 2008 he began training with FK SIAD Most. In July 2008 Gedeon signed for FK Dukla Prague in the

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. After missing the autumn part of the 2010–11 Czech 2. Liga with injury, Gedeon marked his return to action in March 2011, scoring in a 5–0 win against

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. In November 2012, Gedeon extended his contract with Dukla until the summer of 2015. He signed another contract extension in February 2015, this time until June 2016. In August 2015 he moved on loan to Most, the club which he had left seven years prior. Gedeon joined

on loan as an amateur player in the spring of 2016.

International career

On 20 November 2002, Gedeon made his debut for the

in a

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against

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, which finished 3–3. He subsequently played in February 2003 against

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and played the whole 90 minutes of the match against

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in April 2003. Despite being called up to the national squad by manager

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for the September 2004 match against the

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, Gedeon did not represent his country after 2003.

Honours

Slavia Prague * Czech Cup: 2001–02 Vaduz * Liechtenstein Cup: 2005–06 Wisła Płock *

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: 2006

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gedeon, Patrik 1975 births Living people Sportspeople from Chomutov Footballers from the Ústí nad Labem Region Men's association football midfielders Czech men's footballers Czech Republic men's international footballers FK Chmel Blšany players SK Slavia Prague players FC Vaduz players Wisła Płock players FK Baník Most 1909 players FK Dukla Prague players Czech First League players Czech National Football League players Swiss Challenge League players Ekstraklasa players Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Czech expatriate sportspeople in Poland Expatriate men's footballers in Liechtenstein Czech expatriate sportspeople in Liechtenstein