Victor Sikora

Go Ahead Eagles

Born in Deventer, Overijssel, Sikora began his youth career with lower-tier club Roda Deventer, before moving to regional professional club Go Ahead Eagles as a youth. At that club, also based in Deventer, he played for various youth teams until the 1994–95 season, where he was promoted to the first team, who competed in the highest division in Dutch football, the Eredivisie. In the same season, at age 16, Sikora made his professional debut when he came on as a substitute for Gijs Steinmann in the 69th minute of the 2–1 away defeat to RKC Waalwijk on 15 February 1995. After a mixed season, in which Go Ahead Eagles only managed to finish in the penultimate spot in the league table, the team was able to secure another year in the highest tier by winning the relegation play-offs at the end of the season. After avoiding relegation, Sikora was included more often in the first-team squad during the 1995–96 season and finished the season with 14 league appearances, in which he also scored his first professional league goal. As in the previous season, Go Ahead Eagles struggled, and with 22 points in 34 games the team finished in last place of the table thereby suffered relegation to the second-tier Eerste Divisie. There, Sikora grew out to become a first-team regular, and by the end of the 1996–97 season, he had made 32 appearances, in which he scored eight goals. Apart from club topscorer Erik Tammer (23 goals), he was the top goalscorer of his team.…

Sikora has earned six caps with the Netherlands, with his first appearance coming in a February 2001 friendly against Turkey, and the last in 2002 against the United States.

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International

Ajax

Eredivisie: 2003–04 Johan Cruyff Shield: 2002