Miroslav Stoch

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Miroslav Stoch
Personal information
Full name	Miroslav Stoch
Date of birth	October 19, 1989 (1989-10-19) (age 18)
Place of birth	Nitra, Czechoslovakia
Playing position	Attacking Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Chelsea
Youth clubs
1995-2006	FC Nitra
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2005-2006 2006–2007	FC Nitra Chelsea	3 (0) 0 (0)
National team2
2005-2007 2007-	Slovakia U17 Slovakia U19	7 (6) 5 (6)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:20, 30 May 2007 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 13:50, 12 Nov 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Miroslav Stoch (born 19 October 1989 in Nitra) is a Slovakian professional football player who plays mainly as an Attacking Midfielder or Winger. He is currently playing for the Reserve Team of Chelsea F.C..

As a child he was rarely seen without a football. His father realized his talent at an early age and placed him with his local club's academy (FC Nitra). Miňo, as his family calls him, developed his goal scoring abilities by arriving on the training pitch earlier than his teammates and practicing his shooting.

His hard-work paid off as he was drafted into Nitra's first team after scoring a hat-trick in an under 17 match, though he was only 15 at the time and due to age restrictions in the Slovakian league he couldn't play until his 16th birthday. He made his first team debut at the age of 16 and by this time he was already being watched by European scouts.^[1] Luckily Chelsea had scouts in one of the international competition he played in and offered him a trial around the same time that OGC Nice was about to sign him. He duly impressed and was signed by Chelsea's youth academy in 2006.^[2]

Mino is a typical winger with a lot of pace, dribbling skills and a low centre of gravity that makes him hard to cope with. He was a regular for the Under 18's in the 2006/07 season and scored 11 goals. He ended the season has top scorer for the under 18's even though he had always played on the wing. He started the 2007/08 season well and quickly progressed to the reserve team. Stoch bases his game on his two footballing idols Ronaldinho and Ronaldo and tries to emulate them on the pitch.^[3]

Stoch himself has admitted that he is close to making his first team debut and will hope to do in the course of the 2007/08 season.^[4]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Miroslav Stoch's Official Site
• Profile at ChelC blooger
• Official Club profile

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Persondata
NAME	Stoch, Miroslav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stoch, Mino
SHORT DESCRIPTION	footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	1989-10-19
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nitra, Slovakia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH