Jozef Adamec
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Jozef Adamec (26 February 1942 – 24 December 2018) was a Slovak football forward and manager.
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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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).Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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
- Czechoslovak First League: 1967–68, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73
- Czechoslovak Cup: 1966–67, 1970–71, 1974–75
- Slovak Cup: 1970–71, 1974–75
- Mitropa Cup: 1966–67; runner-up: 1967–68
Czechoslovakia
- FIFA World Cup runner-up: 1962
Manager
Inter Bratislava
- Slovak Cup: 1989–90
References
External links
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