Pavlína Ščasná (born 3 April 1982) is a

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former football striker who last played for

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champion LdB Malmö.

Career

She played four years in

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before earning Bayern Munich attention. In her first season at Bayern she was the team's top scorer with 14 goals. At the age of 20 she moved to WUSA's

Philadelphia Charge The Philadelphia Charge was an American women's professional soccer team that played in the Women's United Soccer Association. The team played at Villanova Stadium on the campus of Villanova University near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. History ...

, becoming the first Czech player of women's football in the United States. The WUSA folded in September 2003, so Ščasná returned to Bayern. She played a few more seasons in the Bundesliga before moving to

Damallsvenskan The Damallsvenskan, Swedish for ''ladies all-Swedish'' and also known as OBOS Damallsvenskan for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is also referred to as the women's Allsvenskan. The term Allsvenskan ...

in 2006. She spent two years in

KIF Örebro DFF KIF Örebro DFF is a Swedish women's football club based in Örebro. Founded in 1980 as the women's football section of multi-sports association Karlslunds IF, the club's first team currently plays in the Damallsvenskan, the top level of the wome ...

and then signed for LdB Malmö, with which she won the 2010 league, her first national title since she left the Czech league. She was drafted by Atlanta Beat in the

2010 WPS Dispersal Draft The 2010 WPS Dispersal Draft was a special draft for Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) after the Los Angeles Sol withdrew from the league. Players from the team were dispersed to the remaining seven teams in the league via the draft. Background Whe ...

, but she decided to remain in Malmö. After knee injury in March 2011 she ended with football. She was an international player for a decade, scoring 24 goals in 50 games for the Czech national team. She retired from international football in Autumn 2008. She was named Czech Footballer of the Year (women) five times, in 1998, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Personal life

Ščasná is the daughter of manager and former international player

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. She began playing football in the junior teams of her father's last two teams as a player,

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and

SK Roudnice nad Labem SK Roudnice nad Labem is a Czech football club located in Roudnice nad Labem in the Ústí nad Labem Region. It currently plays in the I. A třída, Ústecký kraj (level 6), which is in the sixth tier of Czech football. Since 2011, Roudnice has be ...

. Her brother

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is also a professional footballer. In August 2011, Ščasná married footballer Rostislav Novák at the Vrtba Garden in

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Honours

Club

; Sparta Prague * I. liga žen: 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–00, 2000–01 ; LdB Malmö / FC Rosengård *

: 2010

Individual

* Czech Women Footballer of the Year: 1998, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008

References

External links

* *
Player national team profile
at FAČR
Player German domestic football stats
at

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* * * 1982 births Living people Czech women's footballers Czech Republic women's international footballers People from Roudnice nad Labem Czech expatriate women's footballers Expatriate women's footballers in Germany Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Czech expatriate sportspeople in Germany Czech expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Czech expatriate sportspeople in the United States Women's United Soccer Association players Philadelphia Charge players KIF Örebro DFF players Damallsvenskan players FC Rosengård players FC Bayern Munich (women) players Women's association football forwards Frauen-Bundesliga players AC Sparta Praha (women) players Czech Women's First League players Sportspeople from the Ústí nad Labem Region {{CzechRepublic-women-footy-bio-stub