Tomáš Sivok
Czech footballer (born 1983)
Tomáš Sivok (born 15 September 1983) is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a centre-back or midfielder. He made 64 appearances for the Czech national team scoring 5 goals. At club level, Sivok is best known for a seven-year spell with Turkish club Beşiktaş, playing over 200 matches for them. He has also played abroad for Udinese in Italy, Bursaspor in Turkey and Maccabi Petah Tikva in Israel.
Club career
In September 2005, Sivok became a captain of Sparta Prague.
In the middle of 2006, Sivok became a main face of a Czech government anti-racist campaign which is called Together Against The Racism.
He signed for Udinese during the January 2007 transfer window. In May 2008, he was sold by Udinese to the Turkish side Beşiktaş for €4.7 million. He signed a four-plus-one-year contract worth €800,000 per season and up to €100,000 in bonuses; his salary would have risen to €1.2 million if he had extended his contract to 2013.
Sivok joined Czech First League club Dynamo České Budějovice in 2019.
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