Pavel Kuka

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Pavel Kuka
Personal information
Full name	Pavel Kuka
Date of birth	(1968-07-19) 19 July 1968
Place of birth	Prague, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Striker
Youth career
1975–1987	Slavia Prague
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1987–1989	Rudá Hvězda Cheb	36	(9)
1989–1993	Slavia Prague	125	(63)
1994–1998	1. FC Kaiserslautern	121	(53)
1998–1999	1. FC Nürnberg	28	(10)
1999–2000	VfB Stuttgart	20	(1)
2000–2005	Slavia Prague	110	(33)
2005	SK Marila Votice		(12)
National team
1991–1993	Czechoslovakia	24	(7)
1994–2001	Czech Republic	63	(22)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Pavel Kuka (born 19 July 1968 in Prague) is a former Czech football forward.

Kuka started and finished his career at Slavia Praha,^[1] playing with the club from 1989–93 and then from 2000–05. He has also played for 1. FC Kaiserslautern (1994–98), 1. FC Nürnberg (1998–99), and VfB Stuttgart (1999–2000). For the Czech national team, Kuka played 63 times, scoring 22 goals^[2] and was part of the runner-up squad at Euro 96 and also took part at Euro 2000. Kuka also played 24 times, scoring seven goals, for Czechoslovakia. Retired in May 2005, he has shortly worked as a manager in FK Marila Příbram (another Gambrinus league team) and then became football agent. In 2008, he was a sports executive at FK Viktoria Žižkov.

Honours

UEFA European Championship runner-up: 1996
FIFA Confederations Cup Third place: 1997
Bundesliga champion: 1997–98; runner-up: 1993–94
DFB-Pokal winner: 1995–96

References

↑ "Počty startů hráčů v I. Československé lize: K" (in Czech). JFK-Fotbal. Retrieved 19 January 2010.
↑ Slavík, Jiří (3 July 2003). "Pavel Kuka – International Appearances". RSSSF. Retrieved 31 March 2012.

External links

Pavel Kuka international stats at the Football Association of the Czech Republic website (Czech)

Awards

v t e Czech Footballer of the Year

1993: Kouba 1994: Kuka 1995: Drulák 1996: Poborský/Berger 1997: Němec 1998: Nedvěd 1999: Koller 2000: Nedvěd 2001: Rosický 2002: Rosický 2003: Nedvěd 2004: Nedvěd 2005: Čech 2006: Rosický 2007: Jankulovski 2008: Čech 2009: Čech 2010: Čech 2011: Čech 2012: Čech

v t e UEFA Euro 1996 Team of the Tournament

Goalkeepers	David Seaman Andreas Köpke

Defenders	Radoslav Látal Laurent Blanc Marcel Desailly Matthias Sammer Paolo Maldini

Midfielders	Didier Deschamps Steve McManaman Paul Gascoigne Rui Costa Karel Poborský Dieter Eilts

Forwards	Alan Shearer Hristo Stoichkov Davor Šuker Youri Djorkaeff Pavel Kuka Jürgen Klinsmann

Czech Republic Squads

v t e Czech Republic squad – UEFA Euro 1996 Runners-up

1 Kouba 2 Látal 3 Suchopárek 4 Nedvěd 5 Kadlec (c) 6 Němeček 7 Němec 8 Poborský 9 Kuka 10 Drulák 11 Frýdek 12 Kubík 13 Bejbl 14 Berger 15 Horňák 16 Srníček 17 Šmicer 18 Kotůlek 19 Rada 20 Novotný 21 Kerbr 22 Maier Coach: Uhrin

Template:Czech Republic squad 1997 Confederations Cup

v t e Czech Republic squad – UEFA Euro 2000

1 Srníček 2 Řepka 3 Látal 4 Nedvěd 5 Fukal 6 Vlček 7 Němec 8 Poborský 9 Kuka 10 Koller 11 Rosický 12 Lokvenc 13 Bejbl 14 Horváth 15 Jankulovski 16 Maier 17 Šmicer 18 Novotný 19 Rada 20 Berger 21 Gabriel 22 Blažek Coach: Chovanec

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Persondata
Name	Kuka, Pavel
Alternative names
Short description	Czech footballer
Date of birth	19 July 1968
Place of birth	Prague, Czechoslovakia
Date of death
Place of death

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