Vratislav Lokvenc

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Vratislav Lokvenc
Vratislav Lokvenc 2013.JPG
Lokvenc (2013)
Personnel
birthday September 27, 1973
place of birth Náchod ,  Czechoslovakia
size 197 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1980-1986 TJ Náchod
1986-1992 SK Hradec Králové
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1992-1994 SK Hradec Králové 55 0(8)
1994-2000 Sparta Prague 163 (74)
2000-2004 1. FC Kaiserslautern 116 (35)
2004-2005 VfL Bochum 32 (10)
2005-2008 Red Bull Salzburg 45 0(8)
2008 →  FC Basel  (loan) 6 0(0)
2008-2009 FC Ingolstadt 04 23 0(6)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1993-1995 Czech Republic U-21 13 0(7)
1995-2006 Czech Republic 74 (14)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2010–? Union Čelákovice (player-coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Vratislav Lokvenc (born September 27, 1973 in Náchod ) is a former Czech football player . He was Czech champion five times with Sparta Prague and played in the German Bundesliga for 1. FC Kaiserslautern and 74 times for the Czech national team. In 2009 he ended his career.

Active career

society

Vratislav Lokvenc began playing football in his hometown of Náchod and played from 1980 to 1986 for the local TJ Náchod. The tall striker then moved to Spartak Hradec Králové . In the summer of 1992 Lokvenc, called only Šoula by those around him, was supposed to do his military service at VTJ Tábor or TJ RH Znojmo , but was then one of the last footballers to complete his basic training directly in Hradec Králové .

Lokvenc made his first appearance in what was then the highest Czechoslovak league at the away game at FC Nitra . Over the full distance he also played in the 1992/93 season for Spartak Trnava and at home against DAC Dunajská Streda . In total, he came to 17 games in his first season as a professional, he did not succeed. From the 1993/94 season the striker played stable in the team coached by Ladislav Škorpil , in 29 missions he scored five goals. After nine games and three goals Lokvenc moved to league rivals Sparta Prague during the 1994/95 season .

With Sparta, Lokvenc was five times national champion (1995, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000) and 1996 cup winner, also in the 1999/00 season top scorer in the league.

In summer 2000 he moved to the German Bundesliga for 1. FC Kaiserslautern , where he formed a dangerous duo with German international Miroslav Klose in the following years . With the FCK he narrowly escaped relegation twice; he scored a total of 35 goals in 116 league games for FCK. For the 2004/05 season Lokvenc went to the UEFA Cup participant VfL Bochum . In Bochum he did not meet expectations despite ten goals scored; the club left the European Cup early. After VfL was relegated at the end of the season, Lokvenc moved to the Austrian Bundesliga club Red Bull Salzburg . There he was mostly used as a substitute and played in the second half of the 2007/08 season on loan at FC Basel . Since Lokvenc was unable to assert himself there either, he went to the German second division club FC Ingolstadt 04 for the 2008/09 season . With the Ingolstadt team, he was relegated from the 2nd Bundesliga at the end of the season . Lokvenc, who lived in Salzburg, then left FC Ingolstadt and was associated with SV Grödig , SV Austria Salzburg and the amateur club FC Pinzgau Saalfelden . However, a commitment did not materialize and so Lokvenc ended his career.

National team

Lokvenc made his debut for the Czech national team on September 6, 1995 in a 2-0 victory in the European Championship qualifier against Norway in Prague . He played his second and, for the time being, last game on November 15, 1995, in a 2-0 win in the European Championship qualification against Luxembourg in the same place . Lokvenc was not used regularly until 1997. With the team he participated in the European Championships in 2000 in Belgium and the Netherlands and in 2004 in Portugal and the 2006 World Cup in Germany in part. The second group game on June 17, 2006 against Ghana at the 2006 World Cup was his last international match. In September 2006 he resigned from the national team.

Lokvenc scored 14 goals in 74 international matches.

After the playing career

For the 2010/11 season Lokvenc returned to the Czech Republic and joined the fourth division SK Union Čelakovice as a player-coach. He is currently a scout for FC Basel for Slovakia and the Czech Republic as well as a player observer.

family

His father, born in 1946, who was also called Vratislav Lokvenc, played for TJ Tepná Náchod in the second Czechoslovak league in the 1960s. From 1965 to 1967 he appeared during his military service for Dukla Tábor, then until 1970 for Spartak Ústí nad Labem, who were also in the second division. Then Vratislav Lokvenc senior returned to Náchod. From 1981 to 1986 he started as a player-coach for Dvůr Králové nad Labem. He later coached the teams from Červený Kostelec, Česká Skalice and Předměřice in the lower divisions. Vratislav Lokvenc senior was killed in a traffic accident caused by Czech ice hockey player Ladislav Lubina in July 2008.

Others

Together with his former teammates Tomáš Votava and Pavel Nedvěd , Lokvenc took part in the Prague half marathon on March 27, 2010 .

Web links

Commons : Vratislav Lokvenc  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ VIDEO: Můj první gól - Vratislav Lokvenc | Můj fotbal. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Václav Tichý: Šoula . In: Fotbal . tape IV , no. 4/1994 . Prague April 1994, p. 27 .
  3. ↑ a b Vratislav Lokvenc. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Saglik for Lokvenc? , Donaukurier, May 17, 2019, accessed on April 3, 2019
  5. ↑ "No Kamikaze Actions, No Stronach Millions" , derstandard, November 30, 2009, accessed on April 3, 2019
  6. ↑ Lokvenc and Orosz still a topic at FCP , Salzburg24, June 25, 2010, accessed on April 3, 2019
  7. ↑ See the match dates on the website of the Czech Football Association
  8. ↑ See the match dates on the website of the Czech Football Association
  9. ↑ Olympia Verlag GmbH (ed.): Ghana presents the Czech Republic. In: kicker online. June 17, 2006, accessed October 25, 2014 .
  10. ^ Vratislav Lokvenc | Reprezentace. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Vratislav Lokvenc povede Čelákovice kolinsky.denik.cz of 30 July 2010. Retrieved on August 9th 2010, Czech.
  12. ↑ Lothar Martin: Ex-professional soccer player Vratislav Lokvenc: The Czech Republic has to orientate youth work based on the German model. In: Radio Prague. October 19, 2011, accessed October 23, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Neue Medien Basel AG (ed.): A Czech follows in summer's big footsteps. In: day week. May 22, 2014, accessed April 17, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Benjamin Steffen: An evening like this. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung / NZZ.ch. Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG, November 26, 2014, accessed on April 17, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Thomas Schifferle: Smart and strong. In: Tages Anzeiger. Tamedia AG, February 17, 2015, accessed on April 17, 2015 .
  16. ↑ HAVING BEEN A PEARL DIVER FOR 14 YEARS
  17. ↑ Zahynul opravdový táta, jenz synovi Pomohl na výsluní . In: Krkonošský deník . July 24, 2008 ( denik.cz [accessed June 11, 2020]).
  18. ↑ Ex-ice hockey player Lubina faces up to five years imprisonment after a traffic accident. July 29, 2008, accessed June 11, 2020 .
  19. ^ Nedvěd runs Prague Half Marathon ( Memento of April 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) praguepost.com of March 31, 2010. Accessed on April 26, 2010, English.
personal data
SURNAME Lokvenc, Vratislav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH After that