Alexa Bokšay

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Alexa Bokšay
SK Rus Uzhorod.jpg
Bokšay (far right)
Personnel
birthday March 27, 1911
place of birth Nagyláz ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death August 27, 2007
Place of death Prague ,  Czech Republic
position goal
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1927-1937 SK Rusj Uzhhorod
1937-1943 Slavia Prague
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1945–19 ?? Slavia Prague (youth)
Aritma Prague (youth)
1948 Czechoslovakia
1949 Czechoslovakia
1955 Czechoslovakia
1 Only league games are given.

Alexa Bokšay , actually Olexa Bokšay , (born March 27, 1911 in Nagyláz , Austria-Hungary , today Welyki Lasy , Ukraine ; † August 27, 2007 in Prague ) was a Czech football player and football coach of Russian descent.

Club career

Bokšay, born in Nagyláz, then part of Austria-Hungary, spent his childhood and youth in Uzhhorod , which belonged to Czechoslovakia from 1918 . At the age of 16, the goalkeeper joined the SK Rusj Uschhorod and from then on played for its men's team, which took part in the Slovak championship. SK Rusj was the strongest club in Carpathian Ukraine and was also one of the best Slovak clubs. In 1933 and 1936 the team won the Slovak championship. The first-mentioned success entitled SK Rusj to participate in the amateur championship of Czechoslovakia in 1933, in which, however, they were eliminated in the first round with 1: 3 and 1: 4 against DFC Prague .

The championship win in 1936 entitled to participate in the promotion round to the 1st Czechoslovak League. SK Rusj qualified against SK Baťa Zlín (4: 1 and 2: 2), SK Mährisch Schönberg (6: 2 and 6: 2), SK Hradec Králové (1: 0 and 1: 1) and Viktoria Žižkov (1: 2 and 2: 3) for the then professional top division. With only three wins and two draws from 22 games, SK Rusj Uschhorod had to relegate as penultimate in the table. The team traveled to most of the games by plane, and because nine players, including Bokšay, were teachers , the team was soon called “The Flying Teachers” (Czech: létající učitelé).

As early as 1929, the talented goalkeeper Bokšay had an offer from the top Budapest club MTK Hungária . However, his father forbade moving on the grounds that his son should complete his teacher training. Two years later AC Sparta Prague knocked , Bokšay wanted to change, but the father again forbade the transfer; the age of majority was only reached at the age of 21.

After Prague Boksay went eventually, but not until the beginning of November 1937, the archrival Sparta, Slavia Prague . At first he was only a replacement for one of the best goalkeepers in the world, František Plánička . It was only after Plánička broke his arm at the 1938 World Cup that Bokšay got his chance and took it. With Slavia he won the Mitropa Cup in 1938 , between 1940 and 1943 he won four championships in a row. In 1944 he suffered a serious kidney injury from which he recovered, but when he wanted to play again after the war ended in 1945, coach Emil Seifert no longer relied on him.

successes

  • Mitropa Cup winner: 1938
  • Master Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1943
  • Czech Cup: 1941 and 1942
  • Slovak champion: 1933 and 1936

National team

Bokšay was nominated in 1938 for the international match of the Czechoslovak national team against Hungary on September 18, but the Munich Agreement and its consequences prevented an international career of the goalkeeper, who had previously played in the junior teams of the Czechoslovakia.

Trainer

After his career, Bokšay was a youth coach at Slavia and Aritma Prague; Even during his time at SK Rusj, he had looked after youth players after training. Alexa Bokšay coached the Czechoslovak national team three times in six games. For the first time in the away games against Romania and Bulgaria in the summer of 1948, but both times his team lost. Then he was again in September 1949 coach of the national team. Czechoslovakia lost the game in Vienna against Austria 1: 3. Bokšay celebrated his first victory on October 30, 1949 in Ostrava , Poland was defeated 2-0. The fifth and actually last international game for Bokšay on the sidelines was a 0-1 from the Czechoslovakian point of view on November 13, 1949 in Paris against France . The former goalkeeper returned in 1955 but again to the bench when he in the international match in Brussels against Belgium the thwarted Antonín Rýgr as caretaker manager represented. The Czechoslovaks won 3-1.

Awards

In 2001 Alexa Bokšay from Slavia Prague received a medal for his services to the club, the Medaile za zásluhy ao rozvoj SK Slavia Praha . In 2006 he was awarded the Václav Jira Prize by the Czech Football Association .

Before the qualifying game for the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League against Ajax Amsterdam on August 29, 2007, he was honored with a minute's silence . Slavia's players wore a black ribbon .

Spelling of names

Other spelling of names are Олекса Бокшай (Ukrainian) and Elék Boksay (Hungarian), his first name was also spelled Alex , Alexej or Lexa in Czechoslovak newspapers of the 1930s and 1940s .

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personal data
SURNAME Bokšay, Alexa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bokšay, Olexa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagyláz , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 2007
Place of death Prague