Jáchym Šíp (born 22 January 2003) is a Czech

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who plays as a winger for

Sigma Olomouc SK Sigma Olomouc is a Czech professional football club based in the city of Olomouc. The club currently competes in the Czech First League, the first tier of Czech football. The club played in the first tier league for 30 years between 1984 and 2 ...

Club career

Šíp joined

at the age of 10, after playing youth football for TJ Loukov and

Bystřice pod Hostýnem Bystřice pod Hostýnem (; ) is a town in Kroměříž District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 8,000 inhabitants. Administrative division Bystřice pod Hostýnem consists of five municipal parts (in brackets population acc ...

. On 6 April 2021, Šíp made his debut for Sigma Olomouc, coming on as an 82nd-minute substitute in a 0–0 draw against

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International career

Šíp has represented the Czech Republic at under-15, under-16 and under-17 level. In September 2020, Šíp was handed a call-up for the Czech Republic senior team for a

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tie against

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after a new 24-man squad needed to be named following

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quarantine measures.

References

2003 births Living people Sportspeople from Kroměříž Czech men's footballers Men's association football wingers Czech Republic men's youth international footballers SK Sigma Olomouc players Czech First League players Footballers from the Zlín Region 21st-century Czech sportsmen {{CzechRepublic-footy-bio-stub