Pavel Mareš

Mareš in 2004
Personal information
Full name	Pavel Mareš[1]
Date of birth	(1976-01-18)18 January 1976 (age 49)
Place of birth	Gottwaldov,Czechoslovakia
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Centre-back,left-back
Youth career
1982–1995	Jiskra Otrokovice
1995–1996	VTJ Hulín
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1997–1999	Svit Zlín	54	(5)
1999–2001	Bohemians Prague	58	(3)
2001–2002	Sparta Prague	20	(3)
2003–2006	Zenit Saint Petersburg	92	(10)
2007–2009	Sparta Prague	2	(0)
2007–2009	Sparta Prague B	38	(0)
2009	→Vysočina Jihlava (loan)	3	(0)
2009	Viktoria Žižkov	2	(0)
2010	Přední Kopanina
Total		269	(21)
International career
2002–2006	Czech Republic	10	(0)
Medal record Men'sfootball Representing Czech Republic UEFA European Championship 2004 Portugal
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pavel Mareš (born 18 January 1976) is a Czech former professional footballer who played as adefender at either centre-back or left-back. He played top-league football in the Czech Republic forBohemians Prague andSparta Prague, and played forZenit Saint Petersburg in theRussian Football Premier League.

Mareš played in ten matches as part of theCzech Republic national football team between 2002 and 2006. He played atEuro 2004 as his nation reached the semi-final stage of the competition. Mareš also travelled to Germany as part of the national team for the2006 FIFA World Cup.

Mareš played forCzech 2. Liga sideFC Svit Zlín before moving to Prague in 1999.^[2] He first played top-level football withBohemians Prague in the 1999–2000 season,^[3] and was reported to have signed forSlovan Liberec in June 2000, although he never transferred to the club and remained a Bohemians player.^[4] Mareš was part of his side's good start to the2001–02 season, where they led the league before the first international break of the season. In August 2001, he scored an injury-time winner for Bohemians in their 1–0 victory againstDrnovice.^[5]

Mareš signed forSparta Prague in December 2001^[6][7] as a replacement for defenderVladimír Labant, who subsequently left the club.^[8] Mareš sustained an ankle injury in his second match for Sparta Prague after his transfer, which caused him to be unavailable for Sparta'sUEFA Champions League game againstPorto in March 2002.^[8] Mareš scored in the2002–03 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds; after hitting the post in the first half, he scored his team's fourth goal in a 4–2 win against Belgian sideGenk, although Sparta exited the competition on theaway goals rule, with the game's aggregate score being 4–4.^[9] In December 2002, Sparta rejected an approach from Russian side Zenit Saint Petersburg to sign Mareš.^[10] In spite of that, Zenit's Czech managerVlastimil Petržela, who had been manager when Mareš played for Bohemians, made Mareš his third Czech signing later the same month.^[11]

From 2003 to 2006, Mareš played for Zenit Saint Petersburg. He scored his first goal for that club in July 2003 in a 2–2 draw againstKrylia Sovetov Samara.^[12] In September 2003, he played in the 3–0 first leg win in the final of theRussian Premier League Cup againstChernomorets, with his club winning the competition by a 5–2 aggregate scoreline. In November 2003, Mareš scored in the fifth round of the2003–04 Russian Cup, finishing his team's third goal in a 6–2 win against third-tier sideFC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny.^[13] During his time in St. Petersburg, the club finished second in the2003 Russian Premier League and reached the quarter finals of the2005–06 UEFA Cup.^[14] Following the 2004 season, theRussian Football Union named Mareš in theBest 33 in the Russian Football Championship [ru] among the league's best three left-backs.^[15]

In the 2006 season, Mareš suffered an ankle injury, causing him to miss matches in March and April.^[16] Following the arrival ofDick Advocaat as Zenit's manager the same season, Mareš played much less than before.^[17] In August 2006, Mareš agreed to a contract to play for English clubBolton Wanderers, however the deal was not completed, with his agent citing a failed medical as the reason for the breakdown.^[18][19][20] In January 2007, he left Zenit despite another year remaining on his contract.^[2]

Mareš returned to Sparta Prague on a two-and-a-half-year contract in January 2007,^[21] going on to play two league matches for Sparta in the 2006–07 season but no matches in 2007–08.^[6] He spent the first half of the 2008–09 season in the Czech 2 Liga playing for Sparta's reserve team, which hecaptained.^[22][23] He transferred toVysočina Jihlava, which played in the same league, midway through the season.^[22] Mareš spent six months in Jihlava before leaving the club at the end of the season, citing its failure to win promotion to theCzech First League as his reason for doing so.^[24] During his time in Jihlava, injuries limited him to two appearances for the club.^[24]

In the summer of 2009, Mareš was one of nine players to joinViktoria Žižkov, as the club prepared to return to the top league following their relegation.^[25] This move again reunited him with manager Vlastimil Petržela, but injuries restricted him to two appearances in the first half of the 2009–10 season.^[26] Later in 2010, Mareš played forFC Přední Kopanina in theCzech Fourth Division.^[27]

Mareš first played for theCzech Republic in 2002,^[3] and later returned to the national team before a friendly match against Japan in April 2004, having played in no international matches since the February 2002 tournament in Cyprus.^[28] Having just three internationalcaps, Mareš was included in the Czech Republic's squad forEuro 2004.^[29] At the tournament, at which his nation reached the semi-finals, his only appearance came in a group match againstGermany, among a group of players the BBC described as "very much a Czech second string".^[30] Mareš was part of the Czech Republic squad for the2006 FIFA World Cup, but did not play in the tournament.^[2] He finished his career having played ten matches for the Czech Republic between 2002 and 2006.^[3]

Although described by UEFA as a midfielder,^[7] Mareš was most known as a defender who could play as a centre-back or left-back.^[24] Following his nomination for the Czech Republic's 2006 World Cup squad,Reuters described Mareš as "reliable backup to[Marek] Jankulovski, but less supporting in the attack".^[31] Vysočina Jihlava director Zdeněk Tulis described Mareš as an "honest player".^[22]

Mareš' parents are called Jindřiška and Bohuslav. He has an older brother, Jan, with whom he grew up.^[32] Mareš has a daughter, Linda, and a son,Dominik.^[33]

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