Marek Poštulka

Marek Poštulka
Personnel
birthday	June 21, 1970
place of birth	Bohumín ,  Czechoslovakia
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1977-1985	TJ ŽD Bohumín
1985-1989	Baník Ostrava
1989-1990	VTJ Tábor
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1991-1992	Gera Drnovice
1992-1997	Baník Ostrava	80 (26)
1998	→  Viktoria Žižkov  (loan)	3 0(1)
1998	FC Karviná	5 0(3)
1999	TJ Dětmarovice
1999	SC Retz
1999-2000	Baník Ostrava	28 0(2)
2000-2002	FC Vítkovice	31 0(8)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1993	Czechoslovakia	2 0(2)
1994-1996	Czech Republic	2 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Marek Poštulka (born June 21, 1970 in Bohumín ) is a former Czech football player .

Poštulka began playing football in TJ ŽD Bohumín , when he was 15 he moved to Baník Ostrava . In the 1989/90 season, the striker completed his military service at VTJ Tábor. From 1991 to 1992 he played for Gera Drnovice . Then he returned to Ostrava . The attacker scored 26 goals in 80 first division games. In an outstanding form Poštulka played in the 1992/93 season, in which he was one of the top scorers of the last season of the joint Czechoslovak league with 16 goals. At the end of the season, this brought him a call-up to the joint selection of Czechs and Slovaks , Czechoslovakia ceased to exist on January 1, 1993. In the game against the national team of the Faroe Islands on June 16, 1993 in Toftir Poštulka scored two of the three Czech-Slovak goals. He was also used in the game against Cyprus on October 17, but failed to score in nine minutes. Poštulka played two games for the newly formed Czech national soccer team . On May 25, 1994, the Czech Republic defeated Lithuania in Ostrava 5: 3, Poštulka scored the meanwhile 5: 2. The attacker made his last appearance for his home country after almost two years of disregard on March 26, 1996 in the game against the Turkish national team . For the last eight minutes he played instead of Radek Drulák .

In the late 1990s, Poštulka had to struggle with injury problems, including a torn cruciate ligament . He disappeared in the meantime from professional football and played for the lower class club TJ Dětmarovice and in Austria for SC Retz. For the 1999/00 season he got another chance at a comeback at his old club Baník Ostrava. He completed 28 games for Baník, but could not build on his form in the mid-1990s. Poštulka ended his career from 2000 to 2002 with city rivals FC Vítkovice .

After his playing career Poštulka worked as a physiotherapist , but also as a coach at his former youth club in Bohumín.

Web links

• International match statistics on fotbal.cz (Czech)
• Career history in numbers (Czech)