Tadeáš Kraus

Tadeáš Kraus
Personnel
birthday	October 22, 1932
place of birth	Třinec ,  Czechoslovakia
date of death	October 31, 2018
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1942-1948	Siła Trzyniec
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1948-1951	Siła Trzyniec
1953-1955	Křídla vlasti Olomouc
1955	ÚDA Prague
1956-1966	Sparta Prague
1966-1969	LIAZ Jablonec
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1953-1959	Czechoslovakia	23 (6)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1969-1970	Slavia Melbourne (player-manager)
1971-1974	Sparta Prague
1974-1976	LIAZ Jablonec
1976-1980	Aris Limassol
1983-1985	Aris Limassol
1 Only league games are given.

Tadeáš Kraus (born October 22, 1932 in Třinec ; † October 31, 2018 ) was a Czech football player and coach of Polish descent.

Club career

Kraus began playing football with Siła Trzyniec , and was already used in the first team at the age of 15. From 1951 to 1953 he interrupted his career to study at a Prague sports college . Then the left winger played for the army clubs Křídla vlasti Olomouc and ÚDA Prague .

For the 1956 season Kraus moved to Sparta Prague , for which he played for ten years. In the 1963/64 season he was with the team of Czechoslovak Cup winners, the following year Czechoslovak champions. For Sparta, Kraus, who was later used in midfield, completed a total of 458 games in which he scored 201 goals.

From 1966 to 1969 Kraus played for the then second division LIAZ Jablonec , then he went to Melbourne as a player- coach for two years , where he looked after the local team Slavia .

National team

In the Czechoslovak national team Kraus was used a total of 23 times. He made his debut on September 23, 1953 in the World Cup qualifier against Bulgaria , which Czechoslovakia won 2-1. He was in the 1954 World Cup squad , and he also took part in the 1958 World Cup. Kraus played his last game for Czechoslovakia on April 5, 1959, and his team lost 2-0 to Ireland in the European Championship qualifiers .

Coaching career

After returning to Czechoslovakia , he took over Sparta Prague in the 1971/72 season and won the national cup competition with the team. In 1974 Kraus moved to LIAZ Jablonec, in 1976 he became the coach of the Cypriot team Aris Limassol , which he supervised until 1980 and again from 1983 to 1985.

Web links

• International match statistics , Czech

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• Luboš Jeřábek: Český a československý fotbal . Grada Publishing, Praha 2007, ISBN 80-247-1656-9 .
• Igor Mráz, Jindřich Pejchar, Josef Pondělík, František Žemla: Svět devadesáti minut. Z dějin Československé kopané. 2nd díl / 1945 - 1980 . Olympia, Prague 1981.
• Karel Vaněk a kol. (Ed.): Malá encyklopedie fotbalu . Olympia, Prague 1984.