Antonín Hájek (football player)

Antonín Hájek (born February 5, 1916 , † November 16, 1983 ) was a Czechoslovak football player who scored 191 goals in ten first division years.

Career

Antonín Hájek began playing football at Olympia Plzeň , in 1934 the striker moved to SK Plzeň 1894 , who was then playing in the 1st Czechoslovak League. Hájek developed into one of the best goalscorers in the league, on March 26, 1939, at the age of 23, he shot his hundredth first division goal. In the 1935/36 season he had achieved 35 goals, which was not enough for the title of top scorer , as Vojtěch Bradáč from Slavia Prague had scored seven more goals.

Hájek was often plagued by injuries and never moved to a big club. Presumably for this reason he was never called up to the Czechoslovak national team, although he had scored 191 first division goals by 1944, when he ended his career at the age of only 28. From 1945 to 1948 he helped out with the lower-class clubs Horymír Příbram and Starý Plzenec . Then Hájek worked briefly as an arbitrator and later as an official .

In the goalscoring club Klub ligových kanonýrů he was third ahead of Oldřich Nejedlý .

Stations

• Olympia Plzeň (1930-1934)
• SK Plzeň 1894 (1934-1944)

literature

• Karel Vaněk a kol. (Ed.): Malá encyklopedie fotbalu . Olympia, Prague 1984.