Anton Urban (soccer player)

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Anton Urban
Personnel
birthday January 16, 1934
place of birth Kysak ,  Czechoslovakia
size 175 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
1947-1953 ŠK Slovan Bratislava
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1953-1954 ŠK Slovan Bratislava 18 (1)
1954-1955 Křídla vlasti Olomouc
1956 ČH Bratislava 18 (0)
1957-1968 ŠK Slovan Bratislava 247 (3)
1968-1969 FC Wacker Innsbruck 18 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1954-1957 Czechoslovakia U-23 4 (0)
1956-1952 Czechoslovakia B 12 (0)
1959-1964 Czechoslovakia 20 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1969 ŠK Slovan Bratislava B
ČH Bratislava
1974-1981 ZŤS Petržalka
1981 ŠK Slovan Bratislava
1 Only league games are given.

Anton Urban (born January 16, 1934 in Kysak ) is a former Slovak football player and coach . With the Czechoslovak selection he won the silver medal at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Club career

Anton Urban came to Bratislava from Kysak after the Second World War and was invited there by editor and club official Jozef Múdry to play for ŠK Bratislava . After playing for the youth teams and the B team, Urban made his debut in the 1953 season at the age of 19 in the first team of Slovan Bratislava in the game at Lokomotíva Košice . The defender was featured three more times this season .

After 14 missions in the 1954 season, he was sent to Olomouc in the autumn of the same year to do his military service there with first division relegated Křídla vlasti Olomouc . In the second division Urban acted temporarily as a player-coach , but the immediate resurgence in the 1955 season was narrowly missed. His parent club Slovan had meanwhile become Czechoslovak champions.

In early 1956, Urban moved to ČH Bratislava , where he continued his military service and wrote another 18 first division games on his account. Urban returned to Slovan in the spring of 1957. Coach Leopold Šťastný , who did not want to upset the previous line of defense , sometimes used Urban in midfield and sometimes even in the attack . There, too, the athletic, fast and strong duel Urban was able to convince. As a result, he became a regular at Slovan on the position of right-back and should remain so for about a decade.

With Slovan Urban won the Czechoslovak Football Cup three times , namely in 1962, 1963 and 1968, whereby he was no longer on the field in the 1968 finals. In the seasons 1956, 1959/60, 1963/64, 1966/67 and 1967/68 he was runner-up with his team. Urban was denied a championship title - from 1949 to 1951, he was still too young for Slovan's first three titles, in 1955 he did his military service in Olomouc - and in 1970, when Slovan won his fifth title, he had already ended his career.

After a decade in the ranks of Slovan Bratislava, the Slovak moved to the Austrian Bundesliga at Wacker Innsbruck for the 1968/69 season . Urban played 18 league games for the Tyroleans, as well as three cup games and one game in the European Cup on September 10, 1968 in the first round match against Eintracht Frankfurt , which ended with 2-2.

In total, Urban completed 283 games in the Czechoslovak first division, in which he scored four goals. For Slovan, he also played ten games in the European Cup Winners' Cup .

National team

Although a regular player for one of the leading clubs in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and 1960s, Urban did not play a game for the Czechoslovak national team. Although he was nominated several times, he never got the place. On the other hand, he celebrated great successes with the newly founded Czechoslovak Olympic team in 1959 , which he led as captain in 1964 after successes over France and Greece in the qualification and South Korea, Egypt, Brazil, Japan and the GDR in the final round to the silver medal.

Coaching career

After his return from Austria, Urban initially coached the Slovan Bratislava B team, then coached ČH Bratislava. In 1974 he went to the then second division team ZŤS Petržalka , with whom he was promoted to the first division in 1980/81. He then worked for a short time as a coach at Slovan Bratislava. From 1992 to 1996 he was Secretary General of Slovan Bratislava.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jubilant Anton Urban oslavuje 80-ku ( Memento from February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) futbalsfz.sk from January 16, 2014. Retrieved on February 27, 2015, in Slovak.
  2. ↑ Strieborný futbalový kapitán Anton Urban sme.sk of January 16, 2004. Retrieved February 27, 2015, in Slovak.
  3. ↑ Urban Anton ( Memento from February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) http://members.aon.at/gsieglwacker , accessed on February 27, 2015.
  4. ↑ Messestädte-Pokal 1968/1969 »1. Round »FC Wacker Innsbruck - Eintracht Frankfurt 2-2 weltfussball.de, accessed on February 27, 2015.

Web links

literature

  • Jozef Kšiňan: Olympijský kapitán . In: Futbalmagazin, Marec / 2004, XII. ročník, pp. 20–21.
  • Luboš Jeřábek: Československý fotbal v číslech a faktech. Olympia, Praha 1991, ISBN 80-7033-098-8 .
  • Luboš Jeřábek: Český a československý fotbal . Grada Publishing, Praha 2007, ISBN 80-247-1656-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Urban, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Kysak , Czechoslovakia