Karel Finek

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Karel Finek
Personnel
birthday May 27, 1920
place of birth Hradec Králové ,  Czechoslovakia
date of death September 8, 1998
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
0000-1938 Olympia Hradec Králové
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1938-1941 SK Baťov
1941-1946 Slavia Prague
1946-1948 AS Saint-Etienne 28 (0)
1948-1949 Le Mans FC 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1946 Czechoslovakia 2 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1956-1957 Cracovia Krakow
1958 Śląsk Wrocław
1959-1960 Slavia Prague
1960-1961 Wisła Krakow
1961 Cracovia Krakow
1962-1963 Garbarnia Krakow
1963-1964 Slavia Prague
1965-1966 SpVgg Weiden
1966-1968 1. FC Amberg
1968-1974 SpVgg Vohenstrauss
1 Only league games are given.

Karel Finek (born May 27, 1920 in Hradec Králové , † September 8, 1998 ) was a Czech football player and coach. As a goalkeeper he played in Czechoslovakia and France. He also worked as a trainer in Czechoslovakia and Germany.

Career

Finek first played for Olympia Hradec Králové. At the age of 18, the tall goalkeeper moved to SK Baťov in Otrokovice . In the spring of 1941, Slavia Prague complained about two injured goalkeepers and hired Finek to replace him, who received 2,000 kroner for moving to the capital.

In one of his first appearances for Slavia in March 1941, it was the derby against Sparta Prague , Finek saved a penalty and was the goalkeeper of the Red-Whites for the next six years. In 1941, 1942 and 1943 Finek won the championship with Slavia.

Finek made his debut on April 7, 1946 in the Czechoslovak national team , which lost 3-0 to France in Paris . Still, Finek was praised in the newspapers as the best Czechoslovak actor. He was nicknamed King Kong by the Parisian audience and a contract offer from AS Saint-Étienne , which the goalkeeper accepted. On May 9, 1946 Finek made his second and last international match in the 2-0 draw against Yugoslavia .

After two years in Saint-Étienne , Finek returned to Czechoslovakia, but was assigned to work in the mine in his now communist homeland . In the mid-1950s, Finek trained as a coach in Prague and then went to Poland , where he looked after Cracovia Krakow and Śląsk Wrocław . In November 1959 Finek returned to Slavia Prague, but stayed there only a few months. Then the former top goalkeeper went to Krakow again , only to train Slavia again in the 1963/64 season.

Finek emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1965 , where he worked as a trainer at SpVgg Weiden , 1. FC Amberg and SpVgg Vohenstrauß .

Web links and sources

literature

  • Vítězslav Šlechta: Brankáři se slavistickou hvězdou . Accent. Třebíč, 2006. ISBN 80-7268-292-X
personal data
SURNAME Finek, Karel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Hradec Králové , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1998