Tomáš Galásek

Tomáš Galásek [ tɔ̹ma ː ʃ ː gala sɛk ] ( born January 15, 1973 in Frýdek- Místek ) is a former Czech football player and was captain of the Czech national team.

Career

Stations of the defensive midfielder Banik Ostrava were, Willem II Tilburg and last Ajax Amsterdam. With the Dutch Galásek was twice national champion and twice Cup winners in six years. With the Czech national Galásek took part in the 2006 World Cup.

After his contract expires, he joined the 2006/07 season in the 1st Bundesliga for two years until 1 FC Nuremberg. In the 1-1 draw of the 1st FC Nuremberg at Alemannia Aachen the Czechs scored the first Bundesliga goal. He was considered one of the major players and was responsible for the build-up play. In his first year in Nuremberg, the team succeeded in winning the DFB Cup.

After the departure of Raphael Schäfer for VfB Stuttgart Galásek was for the 2007 /08 season unanimously elected as the new team captain. This season, he was also the player with the most appearances for the club, but did not reach the performance of the preseason. At the end of the descent of the association was to the 2nd Bundesliga. Galásek Nuremberg was the only without a contract for the second league, and although he wanted to stay, no new one has been signed, so that his time was over in Franconia.

In the subsequent Euro 2008 he was in the Czech squad, and came in all group matches are used. After the last group match on June 15 despite a 2-0 lead still was a 2:3 defeat against Turkey and the Czech Republic was eliminated so that, Galásek explained his time in the national team over.

In August 2008 Galásek moved back to his first club Banik Ostrava. There he graduated next fourteen league games and two games in the UEFA Cup, but despite this regular matches he left the team after half a year in December 2008. He was again the reputation of the coach Hans Meyer, who had already brought him to Nuremberg, followed and joined Borussia Moenchengladbach, the then bottom club in the Bundesliga on. With his 15 appearances Galásek helped the club, work your way up to rank 15 and thus to keep the class. Despite the announcement to end his playing career, he moved on the last day of the exchange period for 2009/10 season for Bayern division club FSV Erlangen- Bruck. There, he scored on 1 November 2009 his first league goal against SpVgg Unterhaching II In July 2012, he announced end of his career.

Statistics

Inserts

• 5 Appearances in the Champions League for Willem II Tilburg
• 26 appearances in the Champions League for Ajax Amsterdam

Title / successes

• European Football Championship: Semi-finals 2004
• Dutch Championship: Champion 2002 and 2004
• KNVB Cup: Cup Winners' Cup in 2002 and 2006
• DFB - Cup: Winner 2007

Others

The Franconia was for Galasek and his family to the new home. The family lives in Eckental.

As a member of the cup winning team of 2007 the 1st FC Nuremberg, chapter 6 in the cult book is the Vampire legend named after him according to his former shirt number.