Jozef Adamec

Last updated • 2 min readFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Jozef Adamec
Jozef Adamec (1969).jpg
Adamec in 1969
Personal information
Date of birth(1942-02-26)26 February 1942
Place of birth Vrbové, Slovakia
Date of death 24 December 2018(2018-12-24) (aged 76)
Place of death Trnava, Slovakia
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
TJ Iskra Vrbové
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1959–1961 Spartak Trnava 61 (19)
1961–1963 Dukla Prague 34 (17)
1963–1966 Slovan Bratislava 26 (15)
1966–1977 Spartak Trnava 264 (119)
1977–1980 SK Slovan Wien
Total385(170)
International career
1960–1974 Czechoslovakia 44 (14)
Managerial career
1976–1977 Spartak Trnava (assistant)
1977–1980 SK Slovan Wien
1980–1981 Slovan Duslo Šaľa
1981–1987 Dukla Banská Bystrica
1987–1988 Vorwärts Steyr
1989–1991 Inter Bratislava
1991 Dukla Banská Bystrica
1992 Bohemians Prague
1992–1993 Inter Bratislava
1993 Czechoslovakia (assistant)
1994–1995 Zlín
1995 Inter Bratislava
1996–1997 Dunajská Streda
1998–1999 Prešov
1999–2001 Slovakia
2002–2003 Spartak Trnava
2003–2004 Slovan Bratislava
2005–2006 Spartak Trnava
2006 Petržalka
2006 Spartak Trnava
2008 Spartak Trnava
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czechoslovakia
FIFA World Cup
Runner-up 1962 Chile
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jozef Adamec (26 February 1942 – 24 December 2018) was a Slovak football forward and manager.

Contents

Adamec won seven Czechoslovak First League titles in his club career, winning two with Dukla Prague during his military service, followed by five more while playing for Spartak Trnava. [1] Other clubs he played for were Slovan Bratislava and lower-division Austrian club Slovan Wien, where he took on a player-manager role. [2]

As a football manager, Adamec took charge of clubs in Czechoslovakia and later Slovakia. Between 1999 and 2001 he led the Slovakia national team.

Career

In the Czechoslovak First League he played 383 matches and with 170 goals is 10th in the Czechoslovak All-Time Topscorers Table. He was capped 44 times for Czechoslovakia, scoring 14 goals. He was a participant at the 1962 FIFA World Cup and 1970 FIFA World Cup.[ citation needed ]

His most memorable performance was his hat-trick against Brazil in match Czechoslovakia - Brazil 3–2 (1–1) played on 23 June 1968 in Bratislava. [3] He was often incorrectly referred to as the first player ever to score a hat-trick against Brazil (Pole Ernst Wilimowski had scored four goals in the 1938 World Cup match).[ citation needed ]

After retiring as player, Adamec began with football coaching as an assistant in Spartak Trnava. Later he coached Dukla Banská Bystrica, Tatran Prešov, Spartak Trnava and Slovan Bratislava. Between 1988 and 1991, he was the manager of Inter Bratislava, winning the Slovak Cup with the club in the 1989–90 season. [4] He was assistant to Czechoslovakia coach Václav Ježek in 1993. [2] From 1999 to 2001 Adamec coached the Slovakia national team.

Adamec died in 2018 at the age of 76. [2]

Honours

Player

Dukla Prague

Spartak Trnava

Czechoslovakia

Manager

Inter Bratislava

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ŠK Slovan Bratislava</span> Association football club in Slovakia

ŠK Slovan Bratislava is a professional football club based in Bratislava, Slovakia, that plays in the Slovak Super Liga. Founded as I. ČSŠK Bratislava in 1919, the club changed its name to Slovan Bratislava in 1953. Slovan is the most successful team in Slovakia with the most titles in both league and cup in the country.

Jozef Vengloš was a Slovak professional football player and manager. He held a doctorate in Physical Education and also specialised in Psychology. He was selected by FIFA on various occasions to lecture at the FIFA academies throughout the world.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">FC Spartak Trnava</span> Association football club in Slovakia

FC Spartak Trnava is a professional football club based in Trnava, Slovakia. The club competes in Niké Liga, the top division in the Slovak football league system, having participated in more seasons than any other club.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ladislav Kuna</span> Slovak footballer and manager

Ladislav Kuna was a Slovak football player and manager, who played as a central midfielder.

Štefan Čambal was a Slovak football player and later a football manager. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 22 matches. He was born in Pozsony and died in Prague.

Milan Luhový is a Slovak former professional footballer who played as a forward for Slovan Bratislava, Dukla Prague, Sporting Gijón, Saint-Étienne, P.A.O.K. and Sint-Truiden. At international level, he made 31 appearances for Czechoslovakia scoring seven goals.

Ladislav Jurkemik is a former Slovak football player and later a football manager. He played in the Czechoslovak First League for Inter Bratislava and Dukla Banská Bystrica. Jurkemik played internationally for Czechoslovakia; he played a total of 57 matches and scored 3 goals. He managed Slovakia in 2002 and 2003.

Anton Malatinský was a Slovak football player and coach. He was a technically adept playmaking midfielder and, as a coach, he was regarded as a good strategist.

Dušan Galis is a Slovak politician and a former football player and manager. In the Czechoslovak league he played 226 matches, scoring 89 goals. He was capped eight times for Czechoslovakia national team, scoring one goal. He was a participant at the 1976 European Football Championship where he became European Champion with his national team.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Karol Jokl</span> Slovak footballer and manager (1945–1996)

Karol Jokl was a Slovak football player and manager. He played for ŠK Slovan Bratislava and Czechoslovakia.

Theodor Reimann, also known as Teodor Reimann, was a football goalkeeper and manager. At club level he played mostly for Slovan Bratislava. Internationally he played for both Slovakia and Czechoslovakia. He obtained 14 caps for Slovakia from 1939 to 1943. He obtained five caps between 1948 and 1954 for Czechoslovakia including one at the 1954 FIFA World Cup.

Karel Jarolím is a Czech football coach and former player. As a player, he played as a midfielder, making 275 appearances in the Czechoslovak First League. and representing the Czechoslovakia national team internationally.

The Czechoslovak Cup was a football cup competition held in Czechoslovakia. It was officially created in 1960 and folded in 1993 with the split between Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Statistics of Czechoslovak First League in the 1960–61 season.

Statistics of Czechoslovak First League in the 1961–62 season.

Statistics of Czechoslovak First League in the 1967–68 season.

Statistics of Czechoslovak First League in the 1968–69 season.

Statistics of Czechoslovak First League in the 1969–70 season.

Statistics of Czechoslovak First League in the 1970–71 season.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dušan Kabát</span> Czechoslovak footballer (1944–2022)

Dušan Kabát was a Czechoslovakian international football player.

References

  1. ↑ Truchlik, Ivan (2015). Futbalový atlas sveta (in Slovak). Prague, Czech Republic: Ottovo Nakladatelství. p. 640. ISBN   978-80-7451-455-5.
  2. 1 2 3 "Zemřel Jozef Adamec, vicemistr světa z Chile a legenda slovenského fotbalu". aktualne.cz (in Czech). 24 December 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  3. ↑ Slovak footballers return triumphant from Azerbajzan, The Slovak Spectator, 18 October 1999, Retrieved 21 November 2013
  4. ↑ Jeřábek, Luboš (2007). Český a československý fotbal - lexikon osobností a klubů (in Czech). Prague, Czech Republic: Grada Publishing. p. 11. ISBN   978-80-247-1656-5.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.