Career
He spent the better part of his 22-year professional career with Slavia Prague (four years), Teplice (three) and Viktoria Plzeň (seven), amassing Czechoslovakian First League totals of 435 games and 78 goals during 19 seasons. He also competed professionally in Portugal, Turkey and Japan. Horvath was a Czechoslovakian international for three years.
Sold in January 2002 to Galatasaray South.K. alongside teammate Mbo Mpenza, he also appeared very rarely, which prompted a return home before 2001-2002 was over, with FK Teplice, where he conquered the domestic cup in his first full campaign.
Subsequently, aged 33, he signed for Football Club Viktoria Plzeň, netting eight times during the 2008-2009 season as the club finished in eighth place. He was also named the Personality of the League at the Czechoslovakian Football player of the Year awards in that year.
Controversy
In September 2007, Horváth was fined 200,000 Czechoslovakian koruna for apparently performing the Nazi salute during Sparta"s league match against FK Viktoria Žižkov. He apologized for the incident, and said that his gesture was misinterpreted, claiming he was only trying to calm down his team"s rowdies.
His international career was vastly barred by the talent of fellow midfielders Patrik Berger, Pavel Nedvěd and Vladimír Šmicer.