Jan Vaník

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Jan Vaník
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Personnel
Surname Jan Vaník
birthday April 11, 1892
place of birth Prague ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death June 12, 1950
position Center Forward
Juniors
Years station
1907-1908 SK Letná
1908-1910 SK Bubeneč
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1910-1916 AC Sparta Prague
1916-1926 Slavia Prague
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1917-1918 Austria-Hungary 2 (0)
1920-1925 Czechoslovakia 12 (10)
1 Only league games are given.

Jan Vaník (born April 11, 1892 in Prague ; † June 12, 1950 ) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak football player on the position of a center forward and participant with the Czechoslovak national team at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp.

Promotion at Sparta Prague and Intermezzo in the Austrian team

The future national player began his career at the age of 15 with the small Czech club SK Letná. After a year he moved to SK Bubeneč, where he drew attention to himself in encounters against the strong Prague clubs with his good positional play and his attacking strength. At the age of 18 he made his debut for today's traditional club AC Sparta Prague and won the Czech championship (Mistrovstvi CSF) with the capital city in 1912 and the Pohár Dobrocinnosti (Charity Cup) in 1915, a forerunner of today's Czech cup competition.

After six years with Sparta, he went to city rival Slavia Prague in 1916 . With the Red-Whites he also played several times in friendly matches against Viennese clubs in 1917 and convinced with very good performances, especially in the encounters against the amateurs of FK Austria Wien (10: 0) and the Vienna AC (1: 0), whereupon he won Hugo Meisl and Heinrich Retschury was called up to the Austrian national team in the same year . Until 1918, the crown land of Bohemia with the capital Prague belonged to the Austrian half of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which is why a team appointment of Bohemian footballers (of German and Czech origin) was not unusual at the time. In particular, the strong Prague clubs Slavia, Sparta and DFC repeatedly provided Austrian national players until 1918.

Jan Vaník made his debut in the Austrian national football team in front of 12,000 spectators on July 15, 1917 in the 1: 4 defeat against Hungary in Vienna . The only goal for Austria - the equalizer to 1: 1 - was scored by his club colleague from Slavia, Václav Prošek . A few months later, Vaník also lost his second international match with Austria. This time the Austrians lost to ore rivals Hungary with 1: 2, with Franz Fichta , the team debutant and scorer Josef Sedláček , as well as Prosek and Vaník even four players from Prague Slavia were in the squad of the Austrians.

Career in the Czechoslovak team and first champion with Slavia

After the First World War Jan Vaník played in the national team of what was now Czechoslovakia. He recorded his first use at the Olympic Games in Antwerp on August 28, 1920 in the game against Yugoslavia . Vaník contributed three goals to the 7-0 final score for his young fatherland in this triumph and also acted as the organizer of the attack game and preparer for further goals. With his team he even made it into the Olympic final in Antwerp after further victories against Norway (4: 0; 1 goal) and France (4: 1) , where the Czechoslovaks caused a scandal when they scored two controversial goals closed for Belgium in the 40th minute left the field. The Belgian national team was then declared the winner, while Czechoslovakia was disqualified and thus excluded from further placement games. In his career Jan Vaník made a total of twelve appearances for the Czechoslovak national team , scoring ten goals. The most hits in a match he got in 1921 in the encounter with Yugoslavia, in which he scored four of the six goals his team scored. He celebrated his departure from the national team on May 24, 1925 in Prague with a 3-1 win over Austria.

At Slavia, the center forward gradually developed into a leading player after the war and was also the captain of the team for years. In 1925 Vaník won the first official Czechoslovak championship with the red and whites and was also the first top scorer in the newly formed Asociační league with 13 goals . During his career he scored 247 goals in 449 championship games and is still one of the most accurate strikers in the long history of Czech and Czechoslovak championship football. In 1926 Jan Vaník ended his successful career as a football player and withdrew into private life.

societies

titles and achievements

  • Czechoslovakian champion
    • 1912 ( Mistrovstvi CSF ), with Sparta Prague
    • 1918 Mistrovství Středočeské župy, with Slavia Prague
    • 1924 Mistrovství Středočeské župy, with Slavia Prague
    • 1925 Asociační Liga , with Slavia Prague

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personal data
SURNAME Vaník, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian and Czechoslovak soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1950