Tomáš Hubočan

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Personal information
Tomáš Hubočan
Full name	Tomáš Hubočan
Date of birth	September 17, 1985 (1985-09-17) (age 22)
Place of birth	Czechoslovakia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	central defender
Club information
Current club	Zenit St. Petersburg
Youth clubs
?-2004	MŠK Žilina
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2004-2005 2006 2006-2008 2008-	MŠK Žilina → ViOn Zlaté Moravce (loan) MŠK Žilina Zenit St. Petersburg	00 (0) 36 (1)
National team²
2007-present	Slovakia	4 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of May 23, 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of May 26, 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Tomáš Hubočan (pronounced Tomash Hubochan) (born 17 September 1985) is a Slovak football defender. He currently plays for the club Zenit St. Petersburg and the Slovakia national team.

1 MŠK Žilina
2 Zenit Saint Petersburg
3 International career
4 References
5 External links

[edit] MŠK Žilina

Hubočan (called Hubo) played in MŠK Žilina since his youth years, beyond the time when he was on loan in ViOn Zlaté Moravce since January 2006 till June 2006. After the end of loan he came back to MŠK Žilina and he worked up for one of the best defenders in Corgoň liga. In the season 2006/2007 he won The Slovak Football League with his club MŠK Žilina.

[edit] Zenit Saint Petersburg

Hubočan signed for Zenit on 11 February 2008 on three year contract for €3,8 million , the highest ever paid to a slovakian club.^[1] Hubočan is hoped to fill the vacancy in the center of Zenit's defense created by fellow Slovak defender Martin Škrtel being sold to Liverpool. MŠK Žilina General manager Karol Belaník said of transfer, "It's great, gigantic transfer. All conventional clauses arguing, that the Slovak football is not so bad when they want pay high sum for our player".

[edit] International career

He played first international match for Slovakia against San Marino on November 21, 2007.^[2]

[edit] References

^ http://www.profutbal.sk/clanok56597.htm (Slovak)
^ http://hn.hnonline.sk/c1-22470350-fiasko-sa-skoncilo-vyhrou-nad-outsiderom (Slovak)

[edit] External links

v • d • e FC Zenit Saint Petersburg – current squad

1 Čontofalský • 2 Radimov • 4 Križanac • 5 Kim • 6 Lombaerts • 7 Domínguez • 8 Pogrebnyak • 9 Tekke • 10 Arshavin • 11 Šírl • 14 Hubočan • 15 Shirokov • 16 Malafeev • 17 Lee • 18 Zyrianov • 20 Fayzulin • 22 Anyukov • 25 Ricksen • 27 Denisov • 40 Lapin • 44 Tymoschuk • 57 Ionov • 88 Gorshkov • Manager: Advocaat