Václav Halama

Václav Halama
Personnel
birthday	November 4th 1940
place of birth	Jablonec nad Nisou ,  Czechoslovakia
date of death	June 8, 2017
Place of death	Cologne, Germany
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	LIAZ Jablonec
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	LIAZ Jablonec
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	FC Augsburg (assistant coach)
1978-1981	Graz AK
1981-1982	TSV 1860 Munich
1982-1984	FK Austria Vienna
1984	AEK Athens
1984-1986	TSV 1860 Munich
1987-1988	FC Locarno
1988-1989	Graz AK
1 Only league games are given.

Václav Halama , also Wenzel Halama (born November 4, 1940 in Jablonec nad Nisou , Sudetenland , † June 8, 2017 ), was a Czechoslovak football player and coach . He became Austrian champion in 1984 with FK Austria Wien .

Player career

Halama spent a large part of his playing career at LIAZ Jablonec , in 1964 he was promoted to the 2nd Czechoslovak League with the club. He also played for FK Dukla Prague and FC Uster in Switzerland.

Coaching career

Halama began in the early 1970s as a player-coach for the second team of LIAZ Jablonec, which was then playing in the fourth division. From 1974 to 1976 he coached the first team in Jablonec. Halama then emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany and settled in Cologne , where he also graduated from the renowned sports university.

In Germany he was assistant coach at FC Augsburg under Max Merkel , at the beginning of the 1978/79 season Halama was briefly coach at the Oberbergischen A-Kreisligisten RS 19 Waldbröl. In 1978 he became head coach at the Grazer AK and in 1981 won the Austrian Cup with the Graz team . After this success he returned to Germany and took over TSV 1860 Munich in the 2nd Bundesliga with players like Rudi Völler , Herbert Waas and Wolfgang Sidka . But in April 1982 he left Munich again and became a coach at Austria Wien , where he celebrated his greatest successes. Under Halama, the team reached the semi-finals in the 1982/83 European Cup Winners' Cup and, after having eliminated FC Barcelona , they were only eliminated from Real Madrid . In 1984, Halama became Austrian champions with the Viennese. Nevertheless, Halama left the club and accepted an offer from Greece to coach AEK Athens . There he was released after ten matchdays after a defeat in the local derby against the reigning champions Panathinaikos Athens (2: 3 on November 25, 1984) and returned to the former employer TSV 1860 in Munich at the end of November 1984 . The Lions were now playing in the Bayern League , Halama was unsuccessful. He then coached FC Locarno (1987/88) and again the GAK (1988/89).

further activities

After his coaching activity, Halama worked as a player's advisor (including Miroslav Baranek , Martin Frýdek , Pavel Hapal , Miroslav Kadlec and Radoslav Látal ). He worked as a European manager for Sigma Olmütz and as a consultant for Eastern Europe for the sports marketing company UFA Sports and the sports rights marketer Sportfive .

Web links

• Václav Halama in the database of weltfussball.de
• Wenzel Halama , in Internationales Sportarchiv 39/1981 from September 14, 1981, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Václav Halama in the Austria archive
• Interview with Václav Halama on the website of FK Jablonec, August 14, 2007 (Czech) ( Memento from October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Article in the football portal fotbal.idnes.cz from August 29, 2007 (Czech)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ex-GAK and Austria coach Halama passed away
2. ↑ The 1984-85 season for AEK Athens with Halama as coach , information in an (unofficial) database for AEK (Greek)