Jan Koller
| Jan Koller | ||
 Jan Koller (2009)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | March 30, 1973 | |
| place of birth | Smetanova Lhota , Czechoslovakia | |
| size | 202 cm | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1978-1989 | TJ Smetanova Lhota | |
| 1989-1994 | ZVVZ Milevsko | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1994-1996 | Sparta Prague | 29 (5) |
| 1994-1996 | Sparta Prague B | (22) |
| 1996-1999 | SC Lokeren | 97 (43) |
| 1999-2001 | RSC Anderlecht | 65 (43) |
| 2001-2006 | Borussia Dortmund | 137 (59) |
| 2006-2008 | AS Monaco | 50 (12) |
| 2008 | 1. FC Nuremberg | 14 (2) |
| 2008-2009 | Krylya Sovetov Samara | 46 (16) |
| 2010-2011 | AS Cannes | 44 (20) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1995-1996 | Czech Republic U-21 | 3 (1) |
| 1999-2009 | Czech Republic | 91 (55) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Jan Koller (born March 30, 1973 in Smetanova Lhota ) is a former Czech football player .
Career
society
After starting in his youth at LhotaTJ Smetanova Lhota, a club from his hometown, and ZVVZ Milevsko, Jan Koller joined Sparta Prague in 1994 at the age of 20 , the series champion and top club in his home country. After failing to assert himself in Prague in three years, he moved to Belgium to SK Lokeren . Here he developed further and was the top scorer in the Belgian first division in the 1998/99 season with 24 goals . In 1999, Koller von Lokeren moved to the traditional Belgian club RSC Anderlecht , where he matured into a top international striker. In the two seasons 1999-2001 he scored 43 goals for the RSC, was twice Belgian champion and also gained first experience in the Champions League . In the 1999/00 season, Jan Koller was voted Belgian footballer of the year.
In 2001 the attacker moved to the German Bundesliga . With Borussia Dortmund he was German champion in the first season and reached the final of the UEFA Cup , which Dortmund lost against Feyenoord Rotterdam . In the final he scored 2: 3; this score was also the end result.
Jan Koller created a very special Bundesliga story on November 9, 2002. In his Dortmund's away game at Bayern Munich , Koller guarded his team's goal from the 67th minute after the Dortmund goalkeeper Jens Lehmann was sent off and that BVB's substitution contingent was already exhausted at this point. Koller put on Lehmann's jersey and showed one of the best appearances of a goalkeeping field player in the Bundesliga. After this 12th match day, Koller was even appointed to the “Eleven of the Day” by the kicker sports magazine - in the goalkeeper position. The last of his five years in Germany was not a good star: After a cruciate ligament rupture in September 2005, Koller was injured for a long time and was out until May 2006.
At the beginning of June 2006 Jan Koller moved from Borussia Dortmund to AS Monaco and scored a total of twelve goals in 50 games. At the beginning of January 2008, Koller returned to the Bundesliga and signed a contract with 1. FC Nürnberg until June 2010. The club had brought him in the middle of the 2007/08 season to strengthen the storm for the relegation battle. The relegation did not succeed. After relegation, Koller moved to the 2008/09 season for the Russian first division club Krylja Sowetow Samara .
At the end of 2009, Koller broke his contract with the Russian club and let his career end with the French third division club AS Cannes . For this he signed a contract until 2011 in January 2010. In his first appearance with Cannes, he contributed the third goal to the 3-0 win against Bayonne. Initially suffering from teething problems, Koller was finally able to assert himself completely at Cannes and, with his goals, was one of the most dangerous strikers in the league. In the summer of 2011, he retired due to persistent injury problems.
He currently lives with his family in Monaco and announced in an interview that he wanted to get his coaching license.
National team
At the age of 25, Jan Koller was first used in the Czech national team on February 9, 1999 ; since 2000 he was a regular there. With the Czech Republic he took part in the EURO 2000 , 2004 and 2008 as well as the 2006 World Cup. Since June 2005, Koller has been the sole record scorer of the Czech national team, after setting Antonín Puč's record from 1926–39 with his 35th international goal (the Czechoslovakia's matches from 1920 to 1992 are also included in the official statistics of the Czech team ) .
After 2006, his comeback was successful after überstandenem cruciate ligament in the last three games of the Bundesliga season, coach called him Karel Bruckner in the World Cup squad of the Czech national team. But here too, Koller was unlucky: he injured himself again in the Czechs' first World Cup game against the USA . In the following games of the Czechs against Ghana and Italy , Koller missed his team, and not least for this reason, the World Cup for the Czech Republic was over after the preliminary round.
At the EM 2008, Koller scored the 1-0 lead for the Czech Republic in the last preliminary round match against Turkey. The game ended 3-2 for Turkey despite a 2-0 lead by the Czech Republic, and Jan Koller announced his resignation from the national team after the game. However, he was nominated for the 2010 World Cup qualification in South Africa for the encounter between the Czech Republic and Slovakia, as Koller had stated that if the Czech national team needed his help, he would be ready to help. On September 5, he made his 91st international match. On the same day, however, he announced his final resignation from the Czech national team.
Style of play
Due to his height of 202 cm and shoe size 50 as well as his massive body, Koller's great strengths were in the header game and ball shielding. He also had good technique, although it suffered from the sluggishness of his large body.
successes
society
Sparta Prague
- Czech champion 1995
- Czech cup winner 1996
RSC Anderlecht
- Belgian champion 2000, 2001
- Belgian league cup winner 2000
- Belgian Supercup winner 2000
Borussia Dortmund
- German champion 2002
- 2002 UEFA Cup Final
National team
- Semi-finals EURO 2004
Individually
- Czech Footballer of the Year 1999
- Belgium's footballer of the year 2000
- Belgian top scorer in 1999
Web links
- Jan Koller in the database of weltfussball.de
- Profile on lequipe.fr
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Koller goes to Russia" , message from kicker from June 23, 2008
- ↑ Ex-Dortmunder Koller signed in Cannes on January 4th, 2010 on fussballtransfers.com
- ↑ Ex-Bundesliga professional Koller ended his career on August 17, 2011 on transfermarkt.de
- ↑ Jan Koller: It was so great to play for BVB. bild.de, May 13, 2013, accessed on August 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Koller's team resignation on September 6, 2009 on transfermarkt.de
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Lorenzo Staelens |
Belgium's footballer of the year 2000 |
Wesley Sonck |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Koller, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Smetanova Lhota |