Martin Lipčák (born 22 December 1975) is a Slovak

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who plays as a

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for Slovan Sabinov. He has spent a large part of his career playing in the top tier of Slovak football, making over 200 appearances in the

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Career

Born in

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, a town close to

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, he debuted in the

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playing for

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. He moved to

Dukla Trenčín Dukla is a town and an eponymous municipality in southeastern Poland, in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship. As of December 2021, the town has a population of 2,017. The total area of the commune is . Dukla belongs to Lesser Poland, and until the Pa ...

in his early 20s playing out 3 seasons before making a switch to

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. He spent seasons here winning the

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in 2004 and helping them to win the league in 2005 although he left the club before the end of the season. After a successful stay in

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he moved to another first division club,

Spartak Trnava FC Spartak Trnava () is a professional football club based in Trnava, Slovakia. The club competes in Slovak First Football League, the top flight in the Slovak league system, having participated in more seasons than any other club. Founded in ...

. The team were runners-up in the

in 2006. Leaving

halfway through the 2006–07 season he looked to play abroad and had trials at

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and

AEK Larnaca AEK Larnaca FC (, "Athletic Union Kition (ancient state), Kition of Larnaca") is a Cyprus, Cypriot professional association football, football club based in Larnaca. The club was formed in 1994 after a merger of two historical Larnaca clubs, EP ...

where a deal with the Cypriot side was close to being sealed but fell through after a failure to agree terms. A few weeks after he got his wish of playing outside of

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by completing a switch to Hungarian 1st division outfit Zalaegerszegi. After a short six-month spell he returned to Slovakia joining 4th division side FK Neded where he spent the autumn of 2007 before leaving

for the second time to join aspiring Czech 2. Liga outfit Fotbal Třinec.

International

He was part of the Slovakian side at the Olympic Tournament in

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in 2000.

Honours

;

: 2003–04

External links

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