Marek Hamk, a former captain for Slovakia, has announced that he will step away from the sport of football at the end of the current season. “Wonderful 19 years of professional career,” Hak said on Thursday on Facebook. “More than seven hundred competitive matches in clubs, and almost 140 contests for the Slovakia national team,” he said. Numerous – a significant number of goals were scored.”
The 35-year-old playmaker set a record for the number of times he represented his country on the international stage by playing 136 games and setting a record for the number of goals he scored with 26. “Soccer was my love, my passion, and my job, to which I gave everything,” he wrote. “I gave my all to the beautiful game.”
During Slovakia’s sole appearance in the World Cup, which took place in South Africa in 2010, Hamk served as the team’s captain. Under his leadership, Slovakia knocked off the tournament’s defending champion, Italy, and advanced to the round of 16. In addition, Slovakia qualified for the European Championships in both the year 2016 and the year 2020 thanks to Hamk. A year ago, he decided to end his career playing football at the international level.
At the club level, he made his most significant impact with the Italian team Napoli, where he spent the majority of his prime playing years (from 2007 till 2019). He played a record 520 games for the Serie A club, Napoli, and won the Italian Cup twice. He also scored 121 goals for Napoli, which is more than Diego Maradona ever scored for Argentina’s national team. In addition, he played for the Slovan Bratislava squad in his home country of Slovakia, as well as for the Brescia club in Italy, the Dalian Pro team in China, and the Gothenburg club in Sweden. He is presently playing in Turkey with Trabzonspor, the team for which he won the league championship during the previous season.
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