Josef Obajdin

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Jozef Obajdin (born on November 7, 1970 in Vlašim) is a Czech footballer striker currently playing for SK Slovan Varnsdorf. The best years of his career he spent in Sparta Prague where he was many times a champion of the Czech Republic. Jozef Obajdin played once for the Czech Republic national football team.

Until his age of 15, he played for the youth team of his city's team, TJ SB Poděbrady, when he then continued to play in 1984 for Sparta Prague youth team. Since 1989 until 1991, he was member of the senior squad of VTJ Tábor. During the season 1991/92, he played for Škoda Pilsen, however in the middle of the season he was transferred to Dukla Prague, for which he played his five first league matches. The following season he began playing for SK Poldi Kladno in the Czech 2. Liga, however he was transferred soon to Slovan Liberec, and helped them to promote to the Czech Liga.

In Liberec, he did great career, since in 1993/94 he scored 11 goals in 28 matches and 10 goals in 14 matches in 1994/95. His great performance with Slovan Liberec, caused the interest of Eintracht Frankfurt and they signed him at the middle of the season of 1994/95. In Bundesliga, because of an injury worry, he played only three games. He returned back again to play for his previous team, Slovan Liberec, for the first half year of the season 1995/96 and transferred in January 1996 to Sparta Prague.

There, Obajdin remained five years and scored 26 goals in 146 games and winning 5 consecutive times the Czech Championship. Although he was in a good form, he was reserve during the 2001/02 season with the new trainer Jaroslav and changed team in January 2002 by being transferred to the Cypriot team Omonia Nicosia, where he played for the rest of the season without success. After a half year, Obajdin went back to Prague, to play for his previous team, however no place to the team squad and was loaned toBohemians Prague where he did not score in ten games. Back in Sparta, he was used only in the second-class B-team.

When Obajdin's contract ran out for Sparta in 2004, the player nearly 34-year-old in the mean time was without club. He stayed for half year without club but in the spring 2005 he signed for Slovan Varnsdorf. At the beginning of 2006 he signed for the Polish team Wisła Płock, where he played until January 2007, when he was released free. He returned to Varnsdorf a few months later.