Jaroslav Pollák

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Jaroslav Pollák
Personnel
birthday July 11, 1947
place of birth Nižný MedzevCzechoslovakia
date of death June 26, 2020
Place of death KošiceSlovakia
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1957-1965 VSS Košice
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1965-1977 VSS Košice
1977-1979 Dukla Banska Bystrica
1979-1980 Sparta Prague 40 (1)
1981-1983 Austria Salzburg 65 (1)
1983-1988 ZŤS Košice
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1968-1980 Czechoslovakia 49 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Jaroslav Pollák (born July 11, 1947 in Nižný Medzev , † June 26, 2020 in Košice ) was a Slovak football player . With Czechoslovakia he became European champion in 1976 .

Career

society

Jaroslav Pollák began playing football at VSS Košice , for whom he made his debut in the 1st Czechoslovak League in 1965 at the age of 18. The technical excellence and strong-running midfielder remained despite several offers to 1977 in Kosice , then he had still his military service, serve, for the sake of his studies of law had been moved repeatedly.

After two years at Dukla Banská Bystrica , Pollák moved to Sparta Prague in 1979 in the state capital . There Bobby, as Pollák was called because of his style of play and the few hair, based on Bobby Charlton , only stayed there for one and a half seasons.

At the beginning of 1981 the playmaker was signed by Austria Salzburg , for which he played 65 Bundesliga games. In 1983 Pollák returned to Czechoslovakia and joined his old club, which was renamed ZŤS Košice and is now only a second class club. In the summer of 1988 Jaroslav Pollák ended his active career at the age of 41.

In the 1st Czechoslovak League Pollák completed 418 games in which he scored 25 goals. His only title win at club level was the Czechoslovak Cup win with Sparta Prague in 1980.

National team

Jaroslav Pollák made his debut in the Czechoslovak national team on June 23, 1968, Czechoslovakia defeated Brazil 3-2 in Bratislava . On June 16, 1971, the Slovak scored his only goal in the dress of the ČSSR in a 4-0 win in Finland .

Between 1973 and 1975 he disappeared from the national team, but returned in time for the 1976 European Championship. In the final, which was victorious for the Slovaks and Czechs, he was no longer able to participate, he had seen the red card in the semi-final against Holland , but overall he was one of the most important players in the Czechoslovak triumph.

Pollák made his last of a total of 49 international matches on March 26, 1980, when Czechoslovakia lost 2-0 to Switzerland in Basel . Although it still drove to the 1980 European Championship in Italy, it was no longer used there.

After the active career

In the mid-1990s Jaroslav Pollák was president of 1. FC Košice , then an official at Sparta Prague . Following this activity, he retired into private life.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. sport.cz: Zemřel československý fotbalový mistr Evropy Pollák, hvězda Košic i Sparty (June 26, 2020) , accessed on June 29, 2020