Given the question: Michal Smarda (born 31 January 1971) is a Czech former football midfielder and current coach at FK Baumit Jablonec. He played in the Gambrinus liga making over 300 appearances for clubs including SK Hradec Kralove FK Viktoria Zizkov and SK Sigma Olomouc. He won the 199899 Gambrinus liga with AC Sparta Prague. Smarda played the final match of his professional career in May 2008 and subsequently moved into coaching. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
The answer is:
Athlete