Ján Kocian

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Personal information
Ján Kocian
Full name	Ján Kocian
Date of birth	March 13, 1958
Place of birth	Zlaté Moravce, Czechoslovakia
Playing position	Defender (football)
Club information
Current club	retired
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1976-1979 1979-1988 1988-1993	ZŤS Martin FK Dukla Banská Bystrica FC St. Pauli	- (-) 209 (20) 90 (5)
National team²
1984-1992	Czechoslovakia	26 (0)
Teams managed
1993-1995 1996-1997 1997-1998 1998-1999 1999-2002 2002-2004 2005 2005-2006 2006-	Slovakia assistant FK Dukla Banská Bystrica Petra Drnovice 1. FC Košice 1. FC Köln assistant Eintracht Frankfurt assistant Rot-Weiss Essen Sportfreunde Siegen Slovakia
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of November 16, 2006. ² National team caps and goals correct as of November 16, 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Ján Kocian (born 13 March 1958 in Zlaté Moravce) is a Slovak football player and coach.

During his playing days, he made 209 appearances for FK Dukla Banská Bystrica between 1979 and 1988 before moving on to German club FC St. Pauli, where he made another 147 appearances up to 1993.

He was capped 26 times by Czechoslovakia. Playing at sweeper as they reached the 1990 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals, Kocian was voted the country's player of the year.

Kocian began his coaching career with Czech side FK Drnovice before moving to the German clubs FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt and Sportfreunde Siegen. He has also worked as an assistant at 1. FC Köln and Eintracht Frankfurt.

He was appointed the new head coach of the Slovakia national football team on 2 November 2006, replacing Dušan Galis. Previously, he had worked as an assistant to former national coach Dr Jozef Vengloš between 1993 and 1995.

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UEFA.com article on his appointment as Slovakia's head coach

	Czechoslovakia squad - 1990 FIFA World Cup Quarter-finalists
1 Stejskal \| 2 Bielik \| 3 Kadlec \| 4 Hašek \| 5 Kocian \| 6 Straka \| 7 Bílek \| 8 Chovanec \| 9 Kubík \| 10 Skuhravý \| 11 Moravčík \| 12 Fieber \| 13 Němec \| 14 Weiss \| 15 Kinier \| 16 Hýravý \| 17 Knoflíček \| 18 Luhový \| 19 Griga \| 20 Němeček \| 21 Mikloško \| 22 Paluch \| Coach: Vengloš