Peter Lérant (born 30 January 1977) is a Slovak former

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defender and football manager.

Career

After playing two seasons with DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda in the Mars Superliga he signed with

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in 1998 but for the next two years he managed only to play for the reserves team. In summer 2000 he moved to Swiss club FC Lucerne, and after the winter break he continued in Greece with

Panionios Panionios G.S.S. Football Club ( Greek: ΠΑΕ Πανιώνιος Γ.Σ.Σ.), the ''Pan-Ionian Gymnastics Club of Smyrna'' (Πανιώνιος Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Σμύρνης, ''Panionios Gymnastikos Syllogos Smyrnis'' ...

. In 2001, he signed with

Austria Wien Fußballklub Austria Wien AG (; known in English as Austria Vienna, and usually shortened to Austria (German: Österreich) in German-speaking countries, is an Austrian association football club from the capital city of Vienna. It has won the mos ...

but in January 2002 he moved to

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. Between summer 2002 and 2003 he played with Hungarian Újpest. In 2004, he moved to Croatia signing with

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club HNK Rijeka where he will find stability and stay for almost 3 seasons. He played with Polish Ekstraklasa club Wisla Plock before coming to Slovenia in 2007 to play with Gorica. In 2009, he played with Bulgarian Minyor Pernik.

International career

In the years 1999 and 2000 Lerant made 11 appearances for the U21 team. In February 2000, he was part of the unofficial Slovak team in the Cyprus International Football Tournament where he played in all 3 games. He represented the Slovak team in the

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in Sydney. He played in the team which finished 4th at the 2000 European U-21 Championship in Bratislava.

Career statistics

Player

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Honours

;GAK Graz *

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(1): 2002 ;HNK Rijeka *

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(2): 2004–05, 2005–06

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