Josef Kuchynka

Josef Kuchynka

Personal information
Date of birth	(1894-08-04)4 August 1894
Place of birth	Prague, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	9 January 1979(1979-01-09) (aged 84)
Place of death	Czechoslovakia
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1915–1935	DFC Prague
International career
1924	Czechoslovakia	1	(0)
Managerial career
1935–1936	SK Kladno
1938	SK Kladno
1939	SK Židenice
1939–1944	Sparta Prague
1945–1946	Slovena Žilina
1946–1948	SK Slezská Ostrava
1948–1950	Wisła Kraków
1952–1953	Svit Gottwaldov
1958–1959	Wisła Kraków
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Josef Kuchynka (4 August 1894 – 9 January 1979) was a Czechoslovak football manager and former player. He was also part of Czechoslovakia's squad at the 1924 Olympics, but he did not play in any matches.

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. 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. He decided to leave Czechoslovakia and later worked in Poland, coaching Wisła Kraków in 1948–1950. He returned to Czechoslovakia in his retirement age.

References

• Profile at the ČMFS website at the Wayback Machine (archived April 13, 2014) (in Czech)
• Trenéři v celé historii Sparty at the Sparta Prague website (in Czech)