Vojtěch Bradáč

Vojtěch Bradáč
Personnel
birthday	October 6, 1913
place of birth	Žižkov ,  Kingdom of Bohemia , Austria-Hungary
date of death	March 30, 1947
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1926-1932	Viktoria Žižkov
1932-1936	Slavia Prague
1936-1937	FC Sochaux
1937-1940	Slavia Prague
1940	Viktoria Žižkov
1941	Slavia Prague
1942	Sparta Prague
1942	Slavia Prague
1942-1945	SK Nusle
	Slovan Duchcov
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1931-1938	Czechoslovakia	9
1 Only league games are given.

Vojtěch Bradáč (born October 6, 1913 in Žižkov near Prague , † March 30, 1947 ) was a Czechoslovak football player .

Career

Vojtěch Bradáč was born in 1913 in Žižkov , which was incorporated into Prague in 1922 . Bradáč began playing football in 1926 with Viktoria Žižkov , where the striker made his debut in the first division in the 1930/31 season. At the end of the season he was called up to the Czechoslovak national team at the age of only 17 years, eight months and seven days ; no player was younger on his debut. Czechoslovakia won against Switzerland 7-3, Bradáč scored two goals.

In April 1932, Bradáč moved to Slavia Prague for the then record sum of 80,000 Czech crowns, which today corresponds to around 700,000 crowns. With Slavia he became Czechoslovakian champion in 1933, 1934 and 1935 . In the 1935/36 season Bradáč scored 42 goals and was the top scorer . Bradáč was then obliged by the French club FC Sochaux and won the national cup competition with him. In the summer of 1937 Bradáč returned to Slavia and won the Mitropa Cup in 1937/38, in which he played a total of 18 games from 1934 to 1939 and scored eight goals.

Despite his excellent debut in 1931, Bradáč could not establish himself in the national team. He was not appointed to the 1934 World Cup , in 1938 he was subsequently nominated and was only a replacement. He had his last of a total of only nine missions on August 28, 1938 in Zagreb in a 3-1 win against Yugoslavia , where he managed the 1-0 opening goal.

In the 1939/40 season Bradáč played briefly for his former club Viktoria Žižkov and then returned to Slavia. In 1942 he was briefly under contract with Sparta Prague , again he went back to Slavia. In the 1942/43 season he finally turned his back on the red and whites and moved to the then first division club SK Nusle , who, however, had to leave the top division as bottom of the table in 1943/44. Bradáč ended his career with Slovan Duchcov .

Bradáč scored 155 goals in the 1st Czechoslovak League and the top division of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia .

Vojtěch Bradáč died on March 30, 1947 at the age of only 33.

successes

• Czechoslovakian champion 1933, 1934 and 1935
• Master Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1943
• French cup winner 1937
• Mitropa Cup winner 1938

Individually:

• Top scorer in the Czechoslovak League: 1935/36 with 42 goals

swell

• Karel Vaněk a kol. (Ed.): Malá encyklopedie fotbalu . Olympia, Prague 1984.
• Radovan Jelínek, Miloslav Jenšík et al .: Atlas českého fotbalu od roku 1890, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-901703-3-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ IFFHS statistics on Mitropacup
3. ↑ detailed international match statistics ( memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.