Josef Masopust
| Josef Masopust | ||
.JPG) Josef Masopust (2012)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | February 9, 1931 | |
| place of birth | Střimice , Czechoslovakia | |
| date of death | June 29, 2015 | |
| Place of death | Prague , Czech Republic | |
| size | 177 cm | |
| position | midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1945-1948 | SK Most | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1948-1950 | SK Most | |
| 1950-1952 | Insgtav Teplice | 54 (10) |
| 1952-1968 | Dukla Prague | 333 (69) |
| 1968-1970 | Crossing Schaerbeek | 68 (29) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1954-1966 | Czechoslovakia | 63 (10) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1970-1971 | Dukla Prague (assistant coach) | |
| 1971-1973 | Dukla Prague B | |
| 1973-1975 | Dukla Prague | |
| 1975-1976 | Dukla Prague B | |
| 1976-1980 | FC Zbrojovka Brno | |
| 1980-1984 | KSC Hasselt | |
| 1984-1987 | Czechoslovakia | |
| 1988-1991 | Indonesian Olympic selection | |
| 1992 | FC Zbrojovka Brno | |
| 1993-1995 | FK Pelikán Děčín | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Josef Masopust (born February 9, 1931 in Střimice , † June 29, 2015 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak football player and coach .
youth
Masopust was born as the oldest of six children in the North Bohemian village of Střimice (Striemitz) near Most (Brüx) as the son of a miner. Already in his youth he developed an inclination to play football. But it wasn't until after the Second World War in 1945 that he signed up as a youth player at SK Most .
Player career
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Masopust played as an attacking midfielder from 1945 to 1950 for SK Most , which was called ZJS Uhlomost Most from 1948 , from 1950 to 1952 for FK Teplice and from 1952 to 1968 for the army club ATK Prague or ÚDA Prague , which in 1956 in Dukla Prague was renamed. With Dukla Prague he was eight times Czechoslovak champion between 1953 and 1966. In the International Soccer League Masopust won the 1961 final against FC Everton .
Masopust played 63 times for the Czechoslovak national team and scored ten goals. He made his debut in the selection on October 24, 1954 in the 1: 4 defeat against Hungary at the Népstadion in Budapest. He scored his first goal on May 10, 1956 in a 6-1 win against Switzerland in Geneva in the 88th minute. In 1960 he took part in the European Championship with the team . He was also runner-up in 1962 when Czechoslovakia lost 3-1 to Brazil in the final of the World Cup in Chile , where he scored the goal of the Czechoslovaks.
Masopust scored three of his ten international goals in friendly matches against Austria . On May 1, 1960, he scored one of the goals in a 4-0 home win at Strahov Stadium , and in the away game in Vienna's Prater Stadium , which took place on September 16, 1962, he scored twice in his team's 6-0 victory. He played his last international match on May 18, 1966 in the 1: 2 defeat against the USSR.
In particular because of his achievements at the World Cup in the same year, he was voted Europe's Footballer of the Year in 1962. The national association named him “Czech Footballer of the Century”.
He ended his playing career in 1970 with the Belgian club Crossing Schaerbeek .
Coaching career
After returning from Belgium, Masopust got the opportunity to work as assistant coach to Jaroslav Vejvoda at his home club Dukla Prague in the 1970/71 season . For the 1972/73 season he took over as head coach of Dukla's B-team, which played in the 3rd division. With 32 points from 30 games, Dukla B was seventh at the end of the season. In the spring of 1972 Masopust won the international junior tournament Torneo di Viareggio as coach of the Dukla team . In the game year 1972/73 Dukla took twelfth place and barely escaped relegation.
Nevertheless, Masopust Vevjoda, who went to Legia Warsaw , succeeded the post of head coach of Dukla Prague. Dukla played for the title for a long time in 1973/74, but in the end only finished second behind Slovan Bratislava . In the 1974/75 UEFA Cup, Dukla failed in the third round at FC Twente Enschede . In the league Dukla was only ninth and had in a balanced league season with 29 points only two points more than the first relegated Sparta Prague . Nevertheless, you went with Masopust as a coach in the 1975/76 season. After five matchdays they separated, and Masopust's predecessor Vejvoda took over the team leadership again. Masopust himself took over the B team, which had meanwhile been relegated to the 4th division. Again the team won the tournament in Viareggio and also returned to the 3rd division.
Masopust had several offers for the 1976/77 season and decided on FC Zbrojovka Brno . In Brno , Masopust's methods quickly met with success. After a fourth place in 1977, Zbrojovka, a club that had not appeared much up until then, won the Czechoslovak championship for the only time so far. Zbrojovka defeated Újpest Budapest 2-2 and 2-0 in the first round of the 1978/79 European Cup , but failed in the second round with 2-2 and 1-1 to Wisła Krakow . In the Czechoslovak League, Brno came third in 1979 and second in 1980.
From 1980 to 1984 Masopust coached the Belgian second division club KSC Hasselt , with whom he failed three times in the promotion round to the first division. From 1984 to 1987 he was the coach of the Czechoslovak national team , the team neither qualifying for the final round of the 1986 World Cup nor for the final round of the 1988 European Championship . Then Masopust looked after the Indonesian Olympic selection until 1991. In 1993 he was again a trainer in Brno for a few months, and from 1993 to 1995 he worked in Děčín.
death
Masopust died on June 29, 2015 at the age of 84 after a long illness in Prague.
successes
- Vice world champion: 1962
- Czechoslovakian Champion : 1953 , 1956 , 1957/58 , 1960/61 , 1961/62 , 1962/63 , 1963/64 , 1965/66
literature
- Josef Masopust, Jan Kotrba: Druhý poločas. Naše vojsko, Prague 1987.
Web links
- Biography Masopust at FIFA com
- Josef Masopust in the database of weltfussball.de
- Biography in Czech
- Internationals Josef Masopust ( Memento from December 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ thueringer-allgemeine.de: Czech football legend Josef Masopust died ( memento from June 29, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) Article from June 29, 2015
- ↑ Odešla Fotbalová legenda. Ve věku 84 let zemřel Josef Masopust
- ^ Zemřel Josef Masopust. Vicemistr světa a vítěz Zlatého míče
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Masopust, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovak soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Střimice |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 2015 |
| Place of death | Prague |