Vladimír Weiss (soccer player, 1964)

Vladimír Weiss
Personnel
birthday	September 22, 1964
place of birth	Bratislava ,  Czechoslovakia
size	182 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
1976-1983	Rapid Bratislava
1983-1984	ČH Bratislava
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1983	Agro Hurbanovo
1983-1993	FK Inter Bratislava	126 (28)
1993	Sparta Prague	4 0(1)
1993-1994	Petra Drnovice	14 0(2)
1994	DAC Dunajská Streda	31 0(4)
1995-1996	1. FC Košice	24 0(1)
1996-2000	FC Petržalka 1898	59 0(7)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1988-1990	Czechoslovakia	19 0(1)
1993-1995	Slovakia	12 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1996-2000	FC Petržalka 1898 (assistant)
2000-2006	FC Petržalka 1898
2006-2007	Saturn Ramenskoye
2007-2008	FC Petržalka 1898
2008–2012	Slovakia
2011–2012	ŠK Slovan Bratislava
2012-2015	FK Qairat Almaty
2016–	Georgia
1 Only league games are given.

Vladimír Weiss (born September 22, 1964 in Bratislava ) is a former Slovak football player and current football coach .

Player career

Weiss played for Rapid Bratislava and ČH Bratislava in his youth . His first stop was Agro Hurbanovo, with whom he rose from the third to the second division. For the 1986/87 season Weiss moved to Inter Bratislava , for which he played 126 first division games over the next six and a half years. During this time, the midfielder was appointed to the Czechoslovak national team, for which he played 19 international matches and took part in the 1990 World Cup in Italy .

At the beginning of 1993 Weiss went to Sparta Prague , after only six months he changed clubs again and played for Petra Drnovice from then on . After a season in the Czech league, Weiss went to Slovakia and joined 1. FC Košice . Between 1993 and 1995 Weiss was used twelve times in the Slovak national team . After a year at DAC Dunajská Streda , the defensive player was under contract from 1996 to 2000 at FC Petržalka 1898 , where he was also assistant coach.

Coaching career

After four years as an assistant coach in Petržalka, Weiss moved to the post of chief coach after the end of his playing career. Under his leadership Artmedia became Slovak champions in 2004/05 and reached the group stage of the UEFA Champions League in 2005/06 . For the 2006 season he was coach of the Russian first division club Saturn Ramenskoje . After a year and a half in Russia, Weiss returned to FC Petržalka 1898 in mid-2007. In July 2008 Weiss took over the Slovak national soccer team . With this he managed to qualify for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa . It was the first time that the Slovak team qualified for an international tournament. At the World Cup, Weiss reached the round of 16. In August 2011 Weiss also became the coach of the Slovak champion ŠK Slovan Bratislava . On January 30, 2012, he resigned as national coach on January 31. Since November 2012 he has coached FK Qairat Almaty from Kazakhstan , which is one of the most successful clubs in the Premjer League . Weiss won two national trophies with Kairat (2014 and 2015). In December 2015, his contract with FC Kairat expired.

In March 2016, Weiss was hired as the coach of the Georgian national soccer team.

Others

Weiss' father of the same name, Vladimír Weiss starší, is also a former football player, he played three times in the Czechoslovak national team. Weiss' son of the same name is a Slovak national player and ran as a professional a. a. in the English Premier League and in the Spanish Primera División .

Web links

• Vladimír Weiss in the database of weltfussball.de
• Interview with Vladimír Weiss on the website of FC Petržalka 1898 with a short career overview (Slovak)
• Vladimír Weiss in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Weiss novým hlavným trénerom A-tímu SR ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Announcement on the website of the Slovak Football Association dated July 7, 2008, last accessed on July 7, 2008 
2. ↑ futbal.sme.sk Jarolím v Slovane skončil, nahradí ho Weiss accessed and published on August 5, 2011, in Slovak
3. ↑ FIFA.com: Weiss is stepping down as national coach