Ladislav Almási ( hu, Almási László, born 6 March 1999) is a Slovak

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who plays for a Croatian club

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on loan from

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as a

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Club career

Senica

Almási made his

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debut for

Senica Senica (; german: Senitz; hu, Szenice) is a town in Trnava Region, western Slovakia. It is located in the north-eastern part of the Záhorie lowland, close to the Little Carpathians. Etymology The name is derived from the word ''seno'' ("hay") ...

against ViOn Zlaté Moravce on 1 March 2016.

Akhmat Grozny

On 20 January 2021, he joined

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club

FC Akhmat Grozny Republican Football Club Akhmat ( ce, футболан клуб Ахмат Соьлжа-ГӀала; russian: Республиканский футбольный клуб Ахмат Грозный), commonly known as Akhmat Grozny, is a Russian ...

on loan until the end of the 2020–21 season, with an option to purchase.

Osijek (loan)

On 5 February 2024, Almási joined

NK Osijek Nogometni klub Osijek ( en, Osijek Football Club), commonly referred to as NK Osijek or simply Osijek (), is a Croatian professional football club from Osijek. Founded in 1947, it was the club from Slavonia with the most seasons in the Yugoslav ...

on a half-year loan deal.

International career

He made his debut for the

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under

Štefan Tarkovič Štefan Tarkovič (born 18 February 1973) is a Slovak football manager. He is currently the manager of Slovakia. He previously managed the teams Žilina, Tatran Prešov and Košice Košice ( , ; german: Kaschau ; hu, Kassa ; pl, Коs ...

on 8 October 2021 in a

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against

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. He came on after 79 minutes of play to replace

Lukáš Haraslín Lukáš Haraslín (born 26 May 1996) is a Slovak professional footballer who plays as a right-winger for Sparta Prague and the Slovak national team. Club career Parma For two seasons Haraslín was a player of Parma's Primavera team. Over the ...

with the final score of 1-0 already set, through a first-half own goal by

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. Following Tarkovič's dismissal and arrival of Francesco Calzona, Almási was initially excluded of nominations, mainly due to an injury and subsequent low recent play-time. In December 2022, Almási was called-up by Calzona for senior national team prospective players' training camp at

NTC Senec NTC Senec (Národné tréningové centrum Senec) is a football training center of the Slovak Football Association and a multi-use stadium in Senec, Slovakia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of ŠK Senec. ...

Personal life

Almási was born in

Bratislava Bratislava (, also ; ; german: Preßburg/Pressburg ; hu, Pozsony) is the capital and largest city of Slovakia. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, it is estimated to be more than 660,000 — approximately 140% o ...

and is a member of the Hungarian ethnic minority in Slovakia.

Honours

Individual *

Player of the Month: September 2020

References

External links

FK Senica official club profile
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archive
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Futbalnet Profile
1999 births Living people Hungarians in Slovakia Footballers from Bratislava Slovak men's footballers Slovak expatriate men's footballers Slovakia men's youth international footballers Slovakia men's under-21 international footballers Slovakia men's international footballers Men's association football forwards FK Senica players FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda players FC ŠTK 1914 Šamorín players FC Petržalka players MFK Ružomberok players FC Akhmat Grozny players FC Baník Ostrava players Slovak First Football League players 2. Liga (Slovakia) players Russian Premier League players Czech First League players Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Russia Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic Slovak expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic NK Osijek players Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Croatia Expatriate men's footballers in Croatia {{Slovakia-footy-forward-stub