Petr Švancara (born 5 November 1977) is a former

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football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

player. Švancara started his football career in his native

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, eventually playing for the local side 1. FC Brno, and, later, for several other

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clubs. In 2008, his goal for

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 a match against Bohemians Prague was voted Czech First League goal of the year. In June 2012, Švancara, the captain of Brno, signed a two-year extension to his contract to keep him at the club until 2014.

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Profile at FC Zbrojovka Brno website

Profile at 1. FC Slovácko website
1977 births Living people Czech footballers Czech Republic men's under-21 international footballers Czech First League players FC Zbrojovka Brno players 1. FC Slovácko players SK Slavia Prague players FK Viktoria Žižkov players SFC Opava players FK Inter Bratislava players FK Viagem Příbram players Slovak Super Liga players Expatriate footballers in Slovakia Footballers from Brno Men's association football forwards Czech National Football League players {{CzechRepublic-footy-forward-stub