Marek Špilár (11 February 1975 – 7 September 2013) was a
Slovak football
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player. He won a national league title with
MFK Košice in Slovakia as well as two in Belgium with
Club Brugge KV
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. He also played club football in the Czech Republic and Japan.
Špilár was capped 30 times for the
Slovak national team from 1997 to 2002.
Špilár died in September 2013 at the age of 38 when he committed suicide by jumping out of a fifth-floor
flat window in the city of
Stropkov.
Club statistics
Honours
Club Brugge
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Belgian Super Cup
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2005
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1975 births
2013 suicides
People from Stropkov
Footballers from the Prešov Region
Slovak men's footballers
Slovak expatriate men's footballers
Nagoya Grampus players
Expatriate men's footballers in Japan
J1 League players
Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic
Belgian Pro League players
Club Brugge KV players
Czech First League players
FC Baník Ostrava players
SK Sigma Olomouc players
FC VSS Košice players
Slovak First Football League players
Slovakia men's international footballers
Slovakia men's under-21 international footballers
1. FK Drnovice players
Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Japan
Suicides by jumping in Slovakia
Men's association football defenders
2013 deaths
1. FC Tatran Prešov players
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