Ivo Knoflíček

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Ivo Knoflíček
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Ivo Knoflíček (2013)
Personnel
birthday February 23, 1962
place of birth Kyjov ,  Czechoslovakia
size 180 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1970-1974 TJ Baník Šardice
1974-1980 FC Zbrojovka Brno
1980-1981 Sigma Olomouc
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1981-1982 Slavia Prague 26 0(2)
1982-1984 RH Cheb 52 0(8)
1984-1988 Slavia Prague 101 (46)
1988-1989 blocked
1989-1991 FC St. Pauli 35 0(5)
1991-1992 VfL Bochum 10 0(1)
1992-1993 Forward Steyr 22 0(2)
1993 FK Švarc Benešov
1994-1995 Slavia Prague 38 0(6)
1995-1996 FC Pares Prušánky
1996-1998 FC Dukla 57 0(9)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1983-1992 Czechoslovakia 38 0(7)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2006 FC Vlašim
1 Only league games are given.

Ivo Knoflíček (born February 23, 1962 in Kyjov ) is a former Czech football player and coach . He played 38 times for the Czechoslovak national soccer team and took part in the 1990 World Cup in Italy.

Career

In his youth he played for Baník Šardice, FC Zbrojovka Brno and Sigma Olomouc . In 1981 Slavia Prague was looking for a new striker and found him in Ivo Knoflíček. Between 1982 and 1984 he did his military service with Red Star Cheb , then he returned to Slavia Prague. In the 1984/85 season he was top scorer with 21 goals .

In September 1983 he made his international debut in a 0-0 draw in Switzerland . When the Slavia team was in Germany in 1988, Knoflíček and his teammate Luboš Kubík decided to flee, which resulted in an automatic ban for 18 months. Both beckoned an engagement with the English club Derby County . However, Kubík backed down at the last moment and returned to Czechoslovakia with the promise of pardon .

With that, Knoflíček's commitment to Derby County was wasted, as Derby's president only wanted to sign the well-established duo together. The striker had to serve the suspension and prepared for the new season with the Italian club Hellas Verona . Finally he went to Germany for FC St. Pauli . In the 1991/92 season he ran for VfL Bochum . In 37 Bundesliga games and 8 second division games, he scored 6 goals. He then moved to Vorwärts Steyr in Austria for a year . In August 1992 he played for the last time in the dress of the Czechoslovak national team in the 2-2 draw against Austria in Bratislava .

In 1994, his career seemed to have ended before his former club Slavia Prague announced and engaged the now 32-year-old again. After only one and a half years he moved to the second division to Dukla Prague , where he saw the club move to Příbram and promotion in 1997. In early 1998, he tore his Achilles tendon ; During his injury Josef Csaplár took over the team and suggested Knoflíček to look for a new club. With that, the age of the aging star was finally over. He got a post with Marila Příbram's second team and worked temporarily as an assistant coach. However, he still had a player contract in Příbram and was successively loaned to the lower-class clubs FK Litoměřice, FK Votice, FK Mníšek and Sokol Měchenice.

In the first half of 2005 he was the game coach at Sparta Kutná Hora and in the autumn of the same year he played a few more times for Kovofiniš Ledeč nad Sázavou, where he was also a youth coach. For the 2005/06 season he was first assistant coach at FC Vlašim, later he took over the post of head coach. At the end of the season, however, he could not agree on a contract extension.

In the national team Knoflíček completed 38 games in which he scored seven goals. He was a World Cup participant in Italy in 1990 and reached the quarter-finals with his team, in which Czechoslovakia lost 1-0 to eventual world champions Germany .

In 1996 he published a book called Neváhej a běž! out, in German something like "Don't hesitate, and run!"

literature

  • Ivo Knoflíček and Vladimír Zápotocký: Neváhej a běž !. Moraviapress, Břeclav 1996, ISBN 80-238-0130-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Knoflíček, Ivo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyjov