Jozef Adamec
Jozef Adamec (26 February 1942 – 24 December 2018) was a Slovak football forward and manager.
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Personal information | ||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Jozef Adamec | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 26 February 1942 | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Vrbové, Slovakia | |||||||||||||||
Date of death | 24 December 2018 76) | (aged|||||||||||||||
Place of death | Trnava, Slovakia | |||||||||||||||
Playing position(s) | Forward | |||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
TJ Iskra Vrbové | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (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 | |||||||||||||||
National team | ||||||||||||||||
1960–1974 | Czechoslovakia | 44 | (14) | |||||||||||||
Teams managed | ||||||||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
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 football 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.
His most memorable performance was his hat-trick against Brazil in match Czechoslovakia - Brazil 3:2 (1:1) played at 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).
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 football team. Adamec died in 2018 at the age of 76.[2]
Honours
Player
Dukla Prague
Spartak Trnava
- Czechoslovak First League
- Czechoslovak Cup
- Winners (3): 1967, 1971, 1975
- Slovak Cup
- Winners (2): 1971, 1975
- Mitropa Cup
Czechoslovakia
- 1962 FIFA World Cup: Runners-Up
References
- Truchlik, Ivan (2015). Futbalový atlas sveta (in Slovak). Prague, Czech Republic: Ottovo Nakladatelství. p. 640. ISBN 978-80-7451-455-5.
- "Zemřel Jozef Adamec, vicemistr světa z Chile a legenda slovenského fotbalu". aktualne.cz (in Czech). 24 December 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- Slovak footballers return triumphant from Azerbajzan, The Slovak Spectator, 18 Oct 1999, Retrieved November 21, 2013
- 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.
External links
- Jozef Adamec at FAČR (in Czech)
- Osobnosti.sk (in Slovak)
- Profile at Hall of Fame Dukla Praha website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-05-11) (in Czech)