Personal information | |||||||||||
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Full name | Jan Stejskal [1] | ||||||||||
Date of birth | 15 January 1962 | ||||||||||
Place of birth | Brno, Czechoslovakia | ||||||||||
Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||
1972–1981 | Zbrojovka Brno | ||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||
1982–1983 | RH Cheb | 22 | (0) | ||||||||
1983–1990 | Sparta Prague | 190 | (0) | ||||||||
1990–1994 | Queens Park Rangers | 107 | (0) | ||||||||
1994–1999 | Slavia Prague | 104 | (0) | ||||||||
1998–1999 | Viktoria Žižkov | 4 | (0) | ||||||||
Total | 427 | (0) | |||||||||
International career | |||||||||||
1986–1992 | Czechoslovakia | 29 | (0) | ||||||||
1994 | Czech Republic | 2 | (0) | ||||||||
Managerial career | |||||||||||
1999–2011 | Sparta Prague (goalkeeper coach) | ||||||||||
2012– | Jablonec (goalkeeper coach) | ||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Jan Stejskal (born 15 January 1962) is a Czech football goalkeeping coach and former player. In a 17-year playing career as a goalkeeper, he set a Czechoslovak First League record for clean sheets in a season, and spent four years in England at Queens Park Rangers. Stejskal played for Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic, for both he played a total of 31 matches, participating in the 1990 FIFA World Cup. Stejskal is now the Mayor of a town in the Czech Republic' Jevany.
In his native country Stejskal played for Sparta Prague, where he equalled the league record of 19 clean sheets in a season, in the 1986–87 season. [2]
He moved to England, where he had a successful spell at Queens Park Rangers from 1990 to 1994. He was one of only 13 foreign players to play on the opening weekend of the FA Premier League along with Peter Schmeichel, Andrei Kanchelskis, Robert Warzycha, Roland Nilsson, Eric Cantona, Hans Segers, John Faxe Jensen, Anders Limpar, Gunnar Halle, Craig Forrest, Michel Vonk and Ronnie Rosenthal.
After returning to the Czech Republic, Stejskal played for Slavia Prague and Viktoria Žižkov before retiring in 1999.
After ending his playing career, Stejskal worked as a goalkeeping coach for both Sparta Prague and the Czech Republic national football team. In December 2011, he left Sparta, where he was replaced in his role by former national team goalkeeper Pavel Srníček. [3]
Stejskal was the goalkeeping coach for the Czech Republic at UEFA Euro 2012. [4] Stejskal joined FK Jablonec as a goalkeeping coach in the summer of 2012. [4]
Stejskal is also a qualified mechanic, a trade learned whilst serving on national duty for the former Czechoslovakia.
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