Jan Suchoparek (born 23 September 1969 in Kladno) is a Czech former football defender and current assistant coach at FK Dukla Prague and for the Czech Republic national under-21 football team.He played for Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic playing a combined total of 61 international matches scoring 4 goals.He was a participant at UEFA Euro 1996 where the Czech Republic won the silver medal. 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?
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