Samuel Dancák (born 6 March 1998) is a Slovak professional

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who plays as a

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for

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Personal life

Dancák was born on 6 March 1998 in Košice, into a family of athletes. From the age of eighteen, he was in the junior team of

Dukla Prague Dukla Prague () was a Czech football club from the city of Prague. Established in 1948 as ATK Praha, the club won a total of 11 Czechoslovak league titles and eight Czechoslovak Cups, and in the 1966–67 season, reached the semi-finals of the ...

and at the same time as playing football, he studied at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport of the

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Career

Dancák made his

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debut for Dukla Prague on 30 March 2019 in their 2–0 away loss against

SFC Opava Slezský FC Opava is a professional football club based in Opava, Czech Republic. The club plays in the Czech National Football League, the second of Czech football after being relegated from the Czech First League at the end of the 2020–21 sea ...

. He than played for Dukla Prague in the

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after the team was relegated until January 2021, when he transferred to

FK Mladá Boleslav FK Mladá Boleslav is a Czech professional football club based in the city of Mladá Boleslav. Since 2004, the club has been participating in the Czech First League. In the Czech First League, Mladá Boleslav were runners up in 2005–06 and o ...

. Dancák played twice for the Slovakia U21 team.

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* 1998 births Living people Footballers from Košice Slovak men's footballers Slovakia men's youth international footballers Slovakia men's under-21 international footballers Men's association football midfielders FK Mladá Boleslav players FK Dukla Prague players FC Hradec Králové players Slovak expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic Slovak expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic 21st-century Slovak sportsmen {{Slovakia-footy-midfielder-stub