| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ján Podhradský | ||
| Date of birth | 6 September 1917 | ||
| Place of birth | Kisač, Austria-Hungary | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1933-1935 | SŠK Bački Petrovac | ||
| 1935-1936 | FK Vojvodina | ||
| 1936-1939 | BSK Belgrade | ||
| 1939-1941 | SK Štefanik | ||
| 1941-1947 | ŠK Bratislava | 153 | (124) |
| National team | |||
| 1938 | Kingdom of Yugoslavia | 1 | (0) |
| 1941 | Slovakia | 4 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
|||
Ján Podhradský (born 6 September 1917) is a former Slovak footballer.
Contents |
Born in the town of Kisač, in the outskirts of Novi Sad, still part back then of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he started playing in a local club named SŠK Bački Petrovac, and afterwords played one season in the major regional club, FK Vojvodina, where his skills started to be noted, and made him win a contract with the major Serbian club in that period, BSK Belgrade.[1] With them he played 3 seasons and won one Yugoslav championship, in the season of 1938-39. With the beginning of the Second World War in Yugoslavia, in 1941, he moved to his fatherland Slovakia, and continued his career in ŠK Bratislava until his end of career in 1947, and made an impressive record of 124 goals in 153 matches. He played as a left midfielder and was famous for his great technical skills.
His name in Slovakian is Ján Podhradský, although during the period he played in Yugoslavia his name was often spelled in a simplifiyed version as Jan Podhradski.
Jan was one of the rare players that played for two national teams. He represented Yugoslavia in a friendly match against Romania in 1938, and, after moving to Bratislava, played four times for Slovakia in friendlies, in the period during the war.