Josef Kuchynka

Josef Kuchynka
Personal information
Date of birthAugust 4, 1894
Place of birthPrague, Austria-Hungary
Date of deathJanuary 9, 1979 (aged 84)
Place of deathCzechoslovakia
Playing positionDefender
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
1915-1935DFC Prague
National team
1924Czechoslovakia1(0)
Teams managed
1935-1936SK Kladno
1938SK Kladno
1939SK Židenice
1939-1944Sparta Prague
1945-1946Slovena Žilina
1946-1948SK Slezská Ostrava
1948-1950Wisła Kraków
1952-1953Svit Gottwaldov
1958-1959Wisła Kraków
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Josef Kuchynka (4 August 1894 – 9 January 1979) was a Czechoslovak football manager and former player of German ethnicity.

A locksmith by profession, Kuchynka played as a footballer mostly for DFC Prague, a football team of ethnic Germans in Prague. In 1924 he appeared in one Czechoslovakia national team match, playing against Yugoslavia in Zagreb. During World War II, Kuchynka coached Sparta Prague. After the war, he coached SK Slezská Ostrava from 1946 to 1948.[1] After the communist takeover of power in February 1948, he was forbidden to work as a professional football manager and was supposed to work in a coal mine.[2] He decided to leave Czechoslovakia and later worked in Poland, coaching Wisła Kraków in 1948–1950. He returned to Czechoslovakia in his retirement age.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://books.google.fr/books?id=4ErKtwjzyv8C&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq=RH+CHEB+TRENER&source=bl&ots=zo9QIHLYBi&sig=SBvqsAB6ShdQVbaDHP4CRD-hUzc&hl=fr&sa=X&ei=CkqXUd_dIYOEhQfcuYHoBg&ved=0CFwQ6AEwBjgU#v=onepage&q=tren%C3%A9r&f=false
  2. ↑ Král, Lubomír (2006). Historie německé kopané v Čechách. Praha: MJF. p. 137. ISBN 80-86284-59-X.

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