- Filip Šebo
Football player infobox
playername = Filip Šebo
fullname = Filip Šebo
height = height|m=1.81
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1984|2|24
cityofbirth =Bratislava
countryofbirth =Czechoslovakia
currentclub = Valenciennes
clubnumber = 9
position =Striker
years = 2001-20032003-20042004-20052005-20062006-2008
2007-2008
2008-
clubs = FC Köln II Inter Bratislava Artmedia Bratislava Austria Vienna Rangers
→ Valenciennes (loan)
Valenciennes
caps(goals) = 050 (25)
030 0(8)
033 (22)
032 0(6)
024 0(2)
032 0(4)
03 0(1)
nationalyears = 2006-
nationalteam = Slovakia
nationalcaps(goals) = 014 0(5)
pcupdate = August 22, 2008
ntupdate = November 20, 2007Filip Šebo (born
February 25 ,1984 inBratislava , thenCzechoslovakia ) is a Slovak footballer currently playing for French Ligue 1 club Valenciennes.Career
Early career
Šebo started his professional career with German team FC Köln. He did not make a first team appearance, playing his games for the reserve side Köln II. He moved to
Slovakia n side Inter Bratislava in 2003 after being released from FC Köln. Eight goals in twenty-five appearances earned him a transfer to Artmedia Bratislava - known for their run in the 2005-06 UEFA Champions League.In summer 2005, after 22 goals in 29 games and the award for the league's top-scorer, he was bought by Austrian side Austria Vienna who paid around £400,000 for him. Šebo played 32 times scoring 5 goals for the Austrian side helping them to achieve an
Austrian Bundesliga and Cup double.Rangers
Rangers manager
Paul Le Guen made Šebo his 9th signing onAugust 3 ,2006 after Austria Vienna and Rangers agreed a fee of £1.85 million. [ [http://www.sportinglife.com/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/06/08/03/SOCCER_Rangers.html 'Sebo Clinches Gers Deal'] , Sporting Life, 3 August 2006] OnAugust 15 , under two weeks after signing for Rangers, he made his debut for the Slovakia national team, in a friendly against Malta. He marked the occasion by scoring ahat trick . [ [http://www.google.co.uk/urlq=http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/football/08/15/friendlies.roundup/&e=17050&sa=X&oi=news&ct=result&cd=1&sig=__bOHBXn5_q2zGnx7aLkjLrjGNpME= "Sebo nets Slovakia debut hat-trick"] , CNN, 15 August 2006] He later put his successful start for the national team down to eating chocolate before the match. [ [http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/tm_objectid=17576066%26method=full%26siteid=66633%26headline=treble%2dso%2dsweet%2dfor%2dgers%2dstar-name_page.html "Treble so sweet for Gers star"] , Daily Record, 17 August 2006] He then scored another two goals in his second international match, against Cyprus.Le Guen gave him his first starting appearance for Rangers on
September 17 , against Hibernian in an SPL match and he scored. His first home goal came onOctober 1 , scoring a late winner in a 1-0 victory over Aberdeen F.C. atIbrox . He played his first European match for Rangers onSeptember 28 , playing the last 15 minutes in a UEFA Cup first-round second-leg tie againstMolde FK . Rangers won 2-0 to qualify for the group stage.In a friendly against Airdrie United on
January 31 2007 , Šebo scored a goal in a 3-0 win for Rangers, his first in 3 months for the club. In another friendly he scored a hat-trick in a 5-0 defeat of Gretna. In July 2007, Šebo scored Rangers second goal in a 2-0 pre-season friendly win over Chelsea, it was his first goal at Ibrox in almost 10 months.Valenciennes
On
August 22 Šebo joined FrenchLigue 1 side Valenciennes on a year long loan deal.cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/r/rangers/6959064.stm|title=Sebo offloaded to Valenciennes|publisher=BBC Sport |date=August 22 ,2007 ] He scored his first goal for Valenciennes in aCoupe de la Ligue match against Sochaux in27 September 2007 . He netted his first and second league goals on11 November whilst playing against Caen.He completed a permanent switch to
France on29 May 2008 , with Valenciennes paying a fee of around a million pounds. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/r/rangers/7425828.stm Striker Sebo completes Ibrox exit] BBC Sport website, 29 May 2008]References
External links
*soccerbase|id=44207|name=Filip Šebo
* [http://www.filipsebo.com/ Official site]
*lfpfr|117701Persondata
NAME=Šebo, Filip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Footballer
DATE OF BIRTH=February 24 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH=Bratislava ,Slovakia
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=
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