Andrej Kvašňák
| Andrej Kvašňák | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | May 19, 1936 | |
| place of birth | Košice , Czechoslovakia | |
| date of death | April 18, 2007 | |
| Place of death | Prague , Czech Republic | |
| position | Midfield, attack | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1947-1951 | OŠPZ Košice | |
| 1951-1956 | VSS Košice | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1956-1958 | Dukla Pardubice | |
| 1958-1959 | Jednota Košice | |
| 1959-1969 | Sparta Prague | 202 (65) |
| 1969-1972 | KRC Mechelen | |
| 1972-1973 | Viktoria Žižkov | |
| 1973-1975 | TJ Turnov | |
| 1976-1988 | Tatran Zličín | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1960-1970 | Czechoslovakia | 47 (13) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1976-1988 | Tatran Zličín (player-coach) | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Andrej Kvašňák (born May 19, 1936 in Košice , Czechoslovakia , † April 18, 2007 in Prague ) was a Slovak football player . He became vice world champion with the Czechoslovak national team in 1962.
He is considered a legend at Sparta Prague and was voted Player of the Century by club supporters. In 433 games for Sparta, he scored 299 goals. A well-known statement about the long Kvašňák, who had a peculiar and unique running style, was: "The man who crawls across the pitch, but always stands in the right place" His popularity was not only due to his performance on the pitch, but because of the way he was able to entertain the audience. He was considered a šoumen (showman) on the field, but also off the field. As a player who liked to let himself fall in the penalty area, however, he was not particularly popular with opposing teams.
On April 18, 2007 Andrej Kvašňák died of lung cancer in the Na Bulovce hospital in Prague .
Career
Andrej Kvašňák started playing football at OŠPZ Košice . Since 1951, the offensive midfielder played for the newly founded club VSS Košice . From 1956 to 1958 he did his military service with Dukla Pardubice , where he made his debut in the first division in the game year 1957/58.
In 1958 he returned to Košice , the association had merged in the meantime and changed its name to Jednota . After only one year he was signed by Sparta Prague , which at that time did not play a prominent role in the Czechoslovak league. The move from Košice to Prague turned out to be extremely difficult and only succeeded after the highest sports authorities intervened. For Kvašňák himself, the beginning in the state capital was difficult. In the games against Jednota Košice he was insulted as a traitor with chants “Judas, Judas”.
The wisdom that Prague is closer to the national team was also confirmed for Andrej Kvašňák. In 1960 he made his debut in Czechoslovak dress in a 4-0 win against Austria , where he contributed the last goal himself. Although Kvašňák had little international experience, he was nominated for the European Championship in 1960 , in which Czechoslovakia won the bronze medal. 1962 counted Kvašňák to the tribe of the Czechoslovak team, which surprisingly was able to advance to the final, but there defeated Brazil 1: 3. English experts named him the second best player of the tournament after the Brazilian star Garrincha . By 1970 Kvašňák was a total of 47 times in the national selection and was able to achieve 13 goals. In 1969 he secured his country participation in the 1970 World Cup in Mexico . First he scored a goal in the important 3: 3 against Hungary , which ultimately led to the play-off against the same opponent around two and a half months later in Marseille. Kvašňák scored in the 43rd minute of the game from the penalty spot and laid the foundation for Czechoslovakia's 4-1 victory.
In the mid-1960s, Sparta Prague made it back to the top and won the Czechoslovak Cup with Kvašňák in the 1964 line-up , and the national championship in 1965 and 1967.
After ten years, 202 league games and 65 goals, Kvašňák left Prague for KRC Mechelen , which was commuting between the second and third Belgian leagues. 1972 Kvašňák returned to Czechoslovakia and let his career end with Viktoria Žižkov and TJ Turnov.
In the top Czechoslovak league Kvašňák ran 248 times, 83 times he hit the opposing goal.
In the 1975/76 season he took over as a player-coach in one of the lower leagues of the Prague club Tatran Zličín and rose immediately. 1976/77 succeeded the march through to the next higher league and 1977/78 Zličín played for promotion to the fourth division, but just missed it. Later Kvašňák only played for the traditional Sparta Prague team.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sparťan století: Andrej Kvašňák ( Memento from April 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Results of the fan vote for Player of the Century on the Sparta Prague website, Czech
- ↑ a b Andrej Kvašňák slaví sedmdesátiny ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) “Andrej Kvašňák is celebrating his seventieth”, detailed portrait on the Sparta Prague website, in Czech
- ↑ Chlap, ktorý chodí, ale je všade ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Article in the Slovak sports daily Dennik Šport from May 19, 2006
- ↑ Šoumen Kvašňák na odpočinku ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) “The showman Kvašňák is retired”, article in the Czech sports daily Deník Sport from December 22, 2006
- ↑ O panování veselého krále Andreje Kvašňáka "About the reign of the happy King Andrej Kvašňák", a portrait on the fan page Sparta Forever from February 28, 2006, in Czech
- ↑ detailed international match statistics, Czech ( memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kvašňák, Andrej |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovak football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Košice |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 2007 |
| Place of death | Prague |