Jozef Chovanec
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| Full name | Jozef Chovanec | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 7 March 1960 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Dolné Kočkovce, Czechoslovakia | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | 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) | ||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||
| 1984–1992 | Czechoslovakia | 52 | (4) | |||||||||
| Teams managed | ||||||||||||
| 1994 | Sparta Prague | |||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Sparta Prague | |||||||||||
| 1998–2001 | Czech Republic | |||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | FK Marila Příbram | |||||||||||
| 2005 | Kuban Krasnodar | |||||||||||
| 2008 | Sparta Prague | |||||||||||
| 2008–2011 | Sparta Prague | |||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Baniyas | |||||||||||
Honours
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Jozef Chovanec (born 7 March 1960) is a former Czechoslovak football player and later a football manager.
Playing career
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
As a football manager he 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 AC Sparta Prague for his fourth spell as manager and parted from the club in December 2011.
On 19 June 2012, Chovanec was appointed as head coach of UAE Pro-League side Baniyas SC.
References
- Jozef Chovanec international stats at the Football Association of the Czech Republic website (Czech)
- World Football profile
- Jozef Chovanec at National-Football-Teams.com
- Profile at idnes.cz
- Trenéři v celé historii Sparty at sparta.cz (Czech)
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