Jozef Chovanec
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Date of birth | 7 March 1960 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Dolné Kočkovce, Czechoslovakia | |||||||||||||
Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder, defender | |||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||
1970–1978 | Púchov | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
1978–1979 | Sparta Prague | 47 | (6) | |||||||||||
1979–1981 | RH Cheb | 27 | (6) | |||||||||||
1981–1988 | Sparta Prague | 208 | (30) | |||||||||||
1988–1991 | PSV Eindhoven | 33 | (4) | |||||||||||
1991–1995 | Sparta Prague | 99 | (15) | |||||||||||
Total | 414 | (61) | ||||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||
1984–1992 | Czechoslovakia | 52 | (4) | |||||||||||
Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
1994 | Sparta Prague | |||||||||||||
1996–1997 | Sparta Prague | |||||||||||||
1998–2001 | Czech Republic | |||||||||||||
2002–2003 | Marila Příbram | |||||||||||||
2004 | Slovan Bratislava | |||||||||||||
2005 | Kuban Krasnodar | |||||||||||||
2008 | Sparta Prague | |||||||||||||
2008–2011 | Sparta Prague | |||||||||||||
2012–2013 | Baniyas | |||||||||||||
2014 | Ružomberok | |||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Slovan Bratislava | |||||||||||||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Jozef Chovanec (born 7 March 1960) is a Czech former professional football player and manager.
Playing career
[edit]As a player, Chovanec spent almost his whole career at Sparta Prague. In 1988, he moved to the Netherlands, to play briefly for PSV Eindhoven. He played for Czechoslovakia and was a participant in the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
Coaching career
[edit]Chovanec coached the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2001. He managed to qualify his team to Euro 2000 but then failed to do so for the World Cup 2002, being eliminated by Belgium in the play-off matches two times by 1–0.
On 8 October 2008, Chovanec returned to Sparta Prague for his fourth spell as manager and parted from the club in December 2011.
On 19 June 2012, Chovanec was appointed head coach of UAE Pro-League side Baniyas SC.
External links
[edit]- Jozef Chovanec at FAČR (also at old FAČR website) (in Czech)
- Profile at idnes.cz (in Czech)
- Trenéři v celé historii Sparty at sparta.cz (in Czech)
- Jozef Chovanec at WorldFootball.net
- Jozef Chovanec coach profile at National-Football-Teams.com
- Jozef Chovanec coach profile at Soccerway
- 1960 births
- People from Púchov District
- Footballers from the Trenčín Region
- Living people
- Czech people of Slovak descent
- Czechoslovak men's footballers
- Czech men's footballers
- Men's association football midfielders
- Czechoslovakia men's international footballers
- MŠK Púchov players
- AC Sparta Prague players
- FK Hvězda Cheb players
- PSV Eindhoven players
- Czechoslovak First League players
- Czech First League players
- Eredivisie players
- 1990 FIFA World Cup players
- Czechoslovak expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
- Czechoslovak expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- Czech football chairmen and investors
- Czech football managers
- AC Sparta Prague managers
- Czech Republic national football team managers
- FK Příbram managers
- ŠK Slovan Bratislava managers
- FC Kuban Krasnodar managers
- Baniyas SC managers
- MFK Ružomberok managers
- Czech First League managers
- Russian First League managers
- UAE Pro League managers
- Slovak First Football League managers
- UEFA Euro 2000 managers
- Czech expatriate football managers
- Expatriate football managers in Slovakia
- Czech expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia
- Expatriate football managers in Russia
- Czech expatriate sportspeople in Russia
- Expatriate football managers in the United Arab Emirates
- Czech expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates