Jaroslav Pollák
Jaroslav Pollák | ||
Personnel | ||
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birthday | July 11, 1947 | |
place of birth | Nižný Medzev , Czechoslovakia | |
date of death | June 26, 2020 | |
Place of death | Košice , Slovakia | |
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
- Brief portrait on slovakfutball.com (English)
- Obzeral si ho v Mexikua Article in the Slovak daily newspaper Dennik Šport from July 10, 2007 (Slovak)
- International match statistics on fotbal.cz (Czech)
Individual evidence
- ↑ sport.cz: Zemřel československý fotbalový mistr Evropy Pollák, hvězda Košic i Sparty (June 26, 2020) , accessed on June 29, 2020
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Pollák, Jaroslav |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovak football player |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Nižný Medzev , Czechoslovakia |
DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 2020 |
Place of death | Košice |