Čestmír Vycpálek

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Čestmír Vycpálek
Juventus FC - Enschede, 1971 - Čestmír Vycpálek (cropped) .jpg
Čestmír Vycpálek 1971
Personnel
birthday May 15, 1921
place of birth PragueCzechoslovakia
date of death May 5, 2002
Place of death PalermoItaly
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
until 1937 SK Novoměstský Praha
1937-1939 Slavia Prague
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1939-1940 Slavia Prague (8th)
1941 SK Židenice (19)
1941-1943 Slavia Prague (14)
1943-1944 AC Nitra
1945-1946 Slavia Prague (15)
1946-1947 Juventus Turin 27 0(5)
1947-1953 US Palermo 143 (23)
1953-1958 AC Parma 151 (28)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1958-1960 US Palermo
1960-1961 US Siracusa
1962-1964 AC Marzotto Valdagno
US Palermo (Juniors)
Juve Bagheria
1970 GS Mazara
1970-1971 Juventus Turin (Juniors)
1971-1974 Juventus Turin
1 Only league games are given.

Čestmír Vycpálek (born May 15, 1921 in Prague , † May 5, 2002 in Palermo ) was a Czech football player and coach . He was the uncle of trainer Zdeněk Zeman .

Career

As a player

Vycpálek, right winger, played for Slavia Prague in 1939/40 . During the 1940/41 season he moved to SK Židenice . During the game year 1941/42 he went back to Slavia, for which he made a total of 178 games and scored 115 goals. With Slavia, Vycpálek became champions of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the playing years 1939/40, 1940/41, 1941/42 and 1942/43 . In 1943 Vycpálek went to the Slovak club AC Nitra .

During an illegal attempt to cross the Moravian-Slovakian border in order to get to the Moravia versus Bohemia game in Ostrava , Vycpálek was arrested and deported to the Dachau concentration camp , from which he was able to return in March 1945.

In 1946 Vycpálek was committed by Juventus Turin , for which he scored five goals in 27 games. In 1947 he moved to Palermo , with whom he made the series B in the Serie A rising. In 143 games, Vycpálek scored 23 goals. For the 1953/54 season Vycpálek moved to AC Parma , where he ended his career in 1958.

Vycpálek played three times for the selection of Bohemia in games against Moravia and scored two goals.

As a trainer

Already active as a player-coach in Parma, after the end of his playing career, Vycpálek worked as a coach at Palermo and the smaller clubs US Siracusa , AC Marzotto Valdagno, Juve Bagheria and GS Mazara.

In 1970 he got a job as a youth coach at Juventus with the help of his friend Giampiero Boniperti . When Armando Picchi died unexpectedly in 1971 , Čestmír Vycpálek became head coach. In 1971/72 and 1972/73 he won the Italian championship , the Scudetto . After the 1973/74 season Vycpálek ended his coaching career.

death

Čestmír Vycpálek died in Palermo on the morning of May 5, 2002, the day Juventus Turin became Italian football champions for the 26th time .

literature

  • Jindřich Horák, Lubomír Král: Encyclopedie našeho fotbalu. Sto let českého a slovenského fotbalu. Domací soutěže . Libri, Praha 1997, ISBN 80-85983-22-2 .
  • Luboš Jeřábek: Český a československý fotbal. Lexicon osobností a klubů . Grada, Praha 2007, ISBN 978-80-247-1656-5 , p. 220 .

Web links

Commons : Čestmír Vycpálek  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Vycpálek addio: fece grande la Juve di Boniperti La Gazzetta dello Sport of 6 May 2002, last accessed on 19 February 2009, Italian