Mucha is a Samara player for two years

Jan Mucha signed a two-year contract with a top-division Russian club

Slovak goalkeeper Jan Mucha has signed a two-year contract with the Russian Premier League club Krylia Sovetov Samara. “Janko agreed to a two-year cooperation with a participant in the very strong Russian top division,” confirmed the previously reported news on Wednesday afternoon to the SITA agency the 30-year-old goalkeeper’s agent Jozef Tokos, who continued: “It is a good step in his career, because he has the chance to play regularly. He was chosen by coach Gadzhiev, who two years ago also managed Anzhi Makhachkala, and he is counting on him as the number one goalkeeper. Now it is only up to Mucha whether he maintains his sporting form and performance and truly becomes Samara’s first-choice goalkeeper. Coach Gadzhiev knows Janko mainly from the Slovak national team.”

The native of Belá nad Cirochou, Jan Mucha, last played for English side Everton, where he arrived in 2010 from Legia Warsaw. On the British Isles, however, he did not make a significant impact, and in three years under coach David Moyes he played only two league matches. His contract expired after the 2012/2013 season. In Slovakia, he wore the jerseys of MŠK Žilina, Inter Bratislava, and HFC Humenné. The thirty-year-old goalkeeper has 35 caps for Slovakia and also appeared at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. In the autumn of last year, he gave up his place in the Slovak national team, making a return conditional on more playing time at club level.