Profile Tomáš Ujfaluši

Personal information :

Full name : Tomáš Ujfaluši
Date of birth : 24 March 1978
Place of birth : Rýmařov, Czechoslovakia
Height : 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position : Defender
Current club : Atlético Madrid
Number : 17
Youth career :
1988–1991 TJ Rýmařov
1991–1996 Sigma Olomouc
Senior career :
1996–2000 Sigma Olomouc
2000–2004 Hamburger SV
2004–2008 Fiorentina
2008– Atlético Madrid
National team :
1997–1999 Czech Republic U21
2001–2009 Czech Republic

Club career

Born in Rýmařov, Ujfaluši organised his representative debuts with SK Sigma Olomouc, at the age of 18. In December 2000, he transferred abroad and signalled with German outfit Hamburger SV: his debut came on the 10th, playing 90 minutes in a 2–1 home win against FC Energie Cottbus, and 16 of his 17 attainments in that season were achieve, but the club could simply position 13th, and 11th the pursuing campaign, with respectively 58 and 57 objectives conceded.
In the 2002–03 season, Ujfaluši alleviated Hamburger final view in fourth placement, but the team fared more sick in the pursuing season (again conceding in the region of 50 Bundesliga goals). Subsequently he signalled with ACF Fiorentina, recently returned to Serie A later successfully emerging from a bankruptcy situation. After virtually 150 official attainments for the Viola (albeit without silverware), being mostly adapted as a right-back by omnibus Cesare Prandelli, Ujfaluši connected Atlético Madrid, alleviating the finance team restate its fourth placement in the league in his debut season, subsequently again qualifying for the UEFA Champions League. In the 2009–10 season, Atlético could simply position ninth, but won the newly written UEFA Europa League, with Ujfaluši arising in eight achieve fits in the latter competition. On 19 September 2010, during injury time of a league fit against FC Barcelona at the Vicente Calderón Stadium (1–2 loss), Ujfaluši organised a late argue on Lionel Messi, wounding his right ankle. The defender received a straight red card for his foul, and was subsequently excluded for couple sporting activities by the Spanish League’s disciplinary committee.

International career

Ujfaluši accumulated his first cap for the Czech Republic in 2001, whilst at Hamburg. He represented the nation at UEFA Euro 2004 (appearing in four fits for the semifinalists), the 2006 FIFA World Cup (being sent off against Ghana in an eventual assembly point exit ) and Euro 2008 (three sporting activities, being called Man of the fit in the first game of the tournament, a 1–0 win against Switzerland). After nine years with the national team, during which he lastly accumulated captaincy,[5] Ujfaluši ended his worldwide career on 8 April 2009, later being criticised for visiting a restaurant, accompanied by five other players, pursuing the Czech Republic's defeat to Slovakia on 1 April for the World Cup qualification.