Jaroslav Drobný (footballer)

Jaroslav Drobný, 2009

Jaroslav Drobný [ jarɔ̹slav drɔ̹bni ː ] ( born October 18, 1979 in Počátky ) is a Czech football goalkeeper. Since 2010 he is at Hamburger SV in the German Bundesliga under contract.

Career

Club career

Career start in the Czech Republic

Drobný began playing football at age six in 1985 with Slavoj Žirovnice. He went from there to 1993 České Budějovice, for whom he played until 1997. From there he moved in January 1998 for SK Chrudim and after half a year and nine games in the second Czech league in mid-1998 to the then second division side FC Vitkovice. There he came to seven missions in the first team. He joined in July 1999 back to České Budějovice.

Change after Athens and English League

After two years in the Gambrinus League of goalkeeper moved in 2001 to the Greek first division club Panionios Athens, where he spent four seasons long goalkeeper and came to a total of 101 league games.

In the summer of 2005, he was obliged by Fulham FC, where he signed a three-year contract until 2008. However, he retired early in the season to a knee injury, prompting Fulham Tony Warner and Antti Niemi committed. For Drobný remained after his recovery no place; he was loaned out in January 2006 at ADO Den Haag to play matches.

For the 2006/07 season he returned to Fulham, but his contract was terminated in August 2006. On 27 October 2006 Drobný signed a Einmonatsvertrag at Ipswich Town, but was not used.

Career in Germany

During the winter break, he joined the German Bundesliga club VfL Bochum. His contract ran until the end of the season 2006/07. After the season he moved to Bundesliga side Hertha BSC; He signed a contract until 2010.

After the 2009/10 season left Drobný Hertha BSC and moved to Hamburger SV. His first league use for Hamburg he had on 9 match day, when he came off the bench against Bayern Munich just before half time for a knee injury goalkeeper Frank Rost. The game ended 0-0. For the 2011/12 season he was goalkeeper of HSV under new coach Michael Oenning. Although Drobný had lost by the debtor at the beginning of the season 2012/13 season goalkeeper Rene Adler his place, he extended on May 30, 2013 his contract with Hamburg until mid- 2015.

National

Drobný played 16 times for the Czech Under-21 team. On 11 February 2009, the goalkeeper made ​​his debut in the 0-0 draw against Morocco in the senior team. He ran as a substitute goalkeeper Petr Čech behind UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland and Ukraine, but did not play.