Róbert Vittek
Róbert Vittek 2008 at the 1st FC Nuremberg
Róbert Vittek [ rɔ ː bɛrt vittɛk ] ( born April 1, 1982 in Bratislava) is a Slovak football player.
- 3.1 In club football
- 3.2 national team
- 3.3 Personal Awards
Career
Association
ŠK Slovan Bratislava
Róbert Vittek began his career in his homeland and birthplace Bratislava at ŠK Slovan Bratislava in the youth team before the season 1999/2000, then he played in the first team of the club. As a youth player he had a pre-contract with Real Madrid, the move to Spain, however, fell through due to a serious knee injury.
1 FC Nuremberg
In August 2003 he moved to Germany at that second-division club FC Nuremberg 1. Vittek managed with the club in the season 2003/ 04 promotion to the first division, to which he contributed ten goals in 27 games. In the 2004/ 05 Bundesliga season he played 24 games for the 1st FC Nuremberg, scoring five goals. He had to end prematurely the season though. Injuries threw Vittek since then always come back. In the first half of the 2005/06 season he was always on or replaced and succeeded a single goal. With the new coach Hans Meyer followed Vitteks breakthrough: With 16 goals in the second half he had share of the jump of the 1st FC Nuremberg from last to eighth place in the table. Among the highlights of this was a new record: Matchday On 24 and 25 of the 2005/06 season he scored six goals in a row without an intervening door of another player, where he also scored the 87th hat trick in Bundesliga history. 26 Gameday Since he scored two more goals, missed out in the 27th round, he just missed the Bundesliga record of Lothar Emmerich and Tomislav Maric, who achieved four double packs in series.
It was followed in 2006 /07, again a mixed season with four goals in 24 games. He played only up to the quarter-finals of the DFB Cup and did not return until the final - and even there only on the bench - back. Nuremberg was 2007 Cup Winners' Cup on May 26. On 24 July 2007 he shot at Nuremberg so far the only game in DFL League Cup both goals for his team. The game ended 4-2 but for the FC Schalke 04 During the fourth matchday of the 2007/ 08 Vittek got his first Bundesliga Sent off ( yellow-red) in the match against Energie Cottbus (final score 1:1). A few days later, a cartilage damage was discovered during an operation, which had a failure to over the winter break also result. After the injury time, his start was delayed by a flu. Due to the long injury break he came nichtzum use even in the UEFA Cup 2007/ 08. Only on Matchday fifth of the season he came off the bench against Hannover 96 in the 46th minute. He had just paused half a season. By the end of the season he came on 17 appearances, but could not help to prevent the descent of the 1st FC Nuremberg in the Bundesliga 2 with a single goal of the season. In the first two games of the second division season 2008/ 09 Róbert Vittek stood still for the 1st FC Nuremberg on the court, then he moved to Lille OSC anch France.
OSC Lille
Vittek was transferred for a fee of four million euros for Lille, where he received a contract until 2012. There he came on August 31, 2008, the 4th Round, his first appearance and eventually helped the club with a total of five goals in 26 games for the fifth place and thus qualifying for the UEFA Europa League. In June 2009, Vittek had flirted with a return to Nuremberg, as he could not prevail at Lille and would like to have again played with his longtime friend Marek Mintal. Due to the high transfer fee and salary costs, however, this transfer was from the beginning as unlikely and ultimately did not materialize as well. On 30 July 2009 he played for Lille for the first time in the qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League 2009/10 against FK Sevojno, scoring one goal. When League start on August 9, he was in the starting. Vittek was loaned until the end of the season to the Turkish club MKE Ankaragucu.
Trabzonspor
In September 2011, Vittek got a two -year contract with Trabzonspor. On the second matchday of the Süperlig the season 2011/2012 (17 September 2011) he tore himself in the game against Istanbul BB ( 0:1) the anterior cruciate ligament of the right knee. A cruciate ligament injury had prevented a possible change as a 16- year-old Real Madrid.
Istanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor
For the second half of the season moved Vittek within the league to Istanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor.
Return to ŠK Slovan Bratislava
At the beginning of the 2013/2014 season Vittek moved back to ŠK Slovan Bratislava, which he left 10 years ago.
National
Since 2001, Vittek regular player in the Slovak national football team. In qualifying for the 2006 World Cup, the trained striker wore his goals to the fact that Slovakia could contest the relegation match against Spain, which, however, then lost. With the Football World Cup 2010 in South Africa, he scored in the group stage first against New Zealand for the first World Cup goal in the history of independent Slovakia. In the deciding match against the reigning world champions Italy reach him two hits, which Slovakia qualified for the knockout stages, while Italy was eliminated. In the second-round match against the Netherlands, Slovakia lost 1:2. Through a penalty in the 94th minute Vittek scored his fourth goal during the World Cup and was now with 23 goals Top scorer of the Slovak team.
Trivia
During the winter break of the 2010/ 11 Red Bull Salzburg worked at transferring the striker. After they had cleared the transfer modalities with MKE Ankaragucu, the club officials of the Turks sent the confirmation fax claims to December 31, 2010 shortly before midnight to Salzburg. The fax has been received in Salzburg until one minute after midnight and entered the transfer to 00:03 clock in the Transfer Matching System (TMS ) of the FIFA. The transfer was therefore invalid. Ankaragucu made a faulty fax machine for the incident responsible for what Red Bull Salzburg objected to but to make the transfer yet. On 23 February 2011, FIFA confirmed the judgment: Vittek was not allowed to go to the reigning Austrian champion.
Title / successes
In club football
- Slovak Championship: runner-up 2001
- Bundesliga promotion: 2004
- DFB - Cup: Cup victory in 2007
National
- World Cup: second round 2010
Personal Awards
- Slovak Footballer of the Year: 2006