Pavlína Ščasná

Ščasná Pavlina ( born April 3, 1982 in Roudnice nad Labem ) is a Czech football player, she is under contract for the 2008/09 season in the Swedish first division side LDB FC Malmö.

Career

Clubs

Ščasná started to play football at the Cypriot club Anagennisis Derynia, in which her ​​father Zdeněk Ščasný, a professional footballer, was end his career. As of 1992, she played at SK Roudnice for which it was active until the age of 14 in boys' teams. In 1996 she moved to Sparta Prague and made his debut at the age of 15 years in the first team. In her first season she was with Sparta, which dominated the Czech league, national champion. Despite her young age she was from the beginning to the service providers of the team with which they (until 2001 ) won the championship in the next four seasons and was 16 years old, was elected to the Czech football player of the year 1998, early 1999.

In summer 2001, she moved to Bundesliga side FC Bayern Munich and became the most successful scorer with 14 goals of Munich. In early 2003 Ščasná left Europe and joined the American Professional Football Philadelphia Charge. Last season, the WUSA midfielders actor was struggling with injury problems and completed just seven games. In last season's game when they drew 1-1 with Carolina Courage scored their only goal for Philadelphia.

According to the preliminary end of professional football in the United States Ščasná returned to Bayern Munich and distinguished himself in the seasons 2004/ 05 and 2005/ 06 with ten and eight goals again as top scorer. In the summer of 2006 Ščasná accepted an offer of KIF Örebro and moved to the Damallsvenskan, the top division in the Swedish women's football. In early 2008 she moved to league rivals LDB FC Malmö with whom she won the Swedish Championship in 2010.

The intention to change the California Professional Association of WPS, WUSA 's successor league, Los Angeles Sol for the 2010 season failed due to the withdrawal of the club from playing the end of January 2010 due to financial difficulties. On February 4, 2010, she was drafted by Atlanta Beat. However Ščasná decided after negotiations with their club LDB FC Malmö to return to Sweden.

National

Even before Ščasná was used for the U-19 National Team, she made her debut at the age of 16 years in the senior national team of their country. Her debut was on April 25, 1998, Český Dub in the 1-1 draw against the selection of Scotland. The deficit to 9-0 final score in the 89th minute against Lithuania in their second senior international on 16 May 1998 in Sedlčany she also scored her first goal. However, since they never failed to qualify for the finals of a European or World Championship with the team, she said after failing European Championship qualifier in the autumn of 2008 her retirement from the national team. Your last of 50 missions in the A-team of them on 29 October 2008 in Gubbio in the 1-2 defeat against the selection of Italy.

For the U-19 national team, she contested between October 1998 and May 13 13, 2001 16 caps and scored 9 goals. Her debut in Passau / Germany, in the 5-0 victory over the selection of the Hungarians, they crowned the deficit to intermediate 2-0 in the 33rd minute.

Achievements

• Swedish Champion 2010
• Czech Champion 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001

Awards

• Czech Player of the Year 1998, 2004

Others

Ščasná comes from a family footballers. Her father Zdeněk Ščasný played for the Czechoslovakian national team and works as a soccer coach, her brother Michal Ščasný is a professional footballer.