Zdeněk Pospěch

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Zdeněk Pospěch
Zdeněk Pospěch 2009.jpg
Zdeněk Pospěch (2009)
Personnel
birthday December 14, 1978
place of birth Opava ,  Czechoslovakia
size 174 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1985-1991 TJ Sokol Kylešovice
1991-1996 FC Kaučuk Opava
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1996-2001 SFC Opava 34 0(3)
1997-1998 → SK Hranice (loan)
1998-1999 →  Fotbal Třinec  (loan) 20 0(2)
2000 → FC Ostrava-Jih (loan) 15 0(1)
2001-2005 FC Baník Ostrava 114 (20)
2005-2007 Sparta Prague 72 0(6)
2008-2011 FC Copenhagen 104 (13)
2011-2014 1. FSV Mainz 05 92 0(1)
2014-2018 SFC Opava 64 0(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2005-2011 Czech Republic 31 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of career

Zdeněk Pospěch [ ˈpɔspjɛx ] (born December 14, 1978 in Opava , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech football player .

Career

societies

Pospěch started playing football at Sokol Kylešovice . At the age of twelve he moved to Ostroj Opava (later FC Kaučuk Opava, now SFC Opava ). At the age of 18 he left the club to do his military service with Dukla Hranice and then returned. On August 2, 1998, the defender made his debut for SFC Opava in the first division. At the beginning of the first half of the season he came on two missions and was then loaned to the second division Fotbal Třinec for a year . After his return to Opava Pospěch played seven first division games in the 1999/2000 season, his team was relegated. During the winter break of 1999/2000 he was loaned to FC Ostrava-Jih for half a year. In the following second division season, the defender scored three goals in 24 missions, combined with the return of SFC Opava to the first division. However, Pospěch did not stay in his native town, but joined Baník Ostrava . In Ostrava Pospěch was immediately a regular player, in the 2003/04 championship season he scored nine goals.

During the 2004/05 winter break, Sparta Prague showed interest in the player; The transfer came about half a year later in the summer of 2005. Pospěch was also one of the top performers in Prague, in 2005/06 he only missed one game of the season, in 2006/07 only three matches. Under coach Stanislav Griga Pospěch played as a winger , Griga's successor Bílek put him back in the defense.

On January 23, 2008 Pospěch moved to the Danish first division club FC Copenhagen , for whom he made his debut on March 16, 2008: in the 4-1 win on Matchday 19 against Lyngby BK he was in the starting line-up and scored a goal. By the end of the 2008/09 season, he was used in 15 games and scored two goals. In the 2008/09 season Pospěch came in the league game operation to 29 missions and scored two goals. In the UEFA Cup , he came to seven appearances and scored one goal. With FC Copenhagen he was Danish champions and cup winners at the end of the season . 2009/10 Pospěch played in 31 games and scored six goals. In qualifying for the Champions League , his team was eliminated in the play-offs against APOEL Nicosia and continued to play in the Europa League . In this competition Pospěch was used in all group games and in the first leg of the sixteenth-finals against Olympique Marseille . At the end of the season he and his team defended the championship title in the Danish league. 2010/11 Pospěch was used in all 33 league games. Here he was successful three times as a goalscorer. Unlike last season, FC Copenhagen qualified for the Champions League and was only eliminated from Chelsea in the round of 16 . In the course of the tournament Pospěch came to seven missions.

Pospěch moved in July 2011 to the German Bundesliga club 1. FSV Mainz 05 , where he signed a two-year contract. He made his competitive debut for Mainz on July 28, 2011 in the first leg of the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League against Gaz Metan Mediaş . He made his Bundesliga debut on August 7, 2011 (1st matchday) in a 2-0 home win against Bayer 04 Leverkusen . On February 16, 2013, Pospěch scored his first competitive goal for Mainz 05 in the Bundesliga match against FC Schalke 04 with the goal to make it 2-1. The game ended 2-2. Ten days later he saw the yellow-red card in the DFB Cup quarter-final match against SC Freiburg in the 65th minute when Mainz was 2-0. In the end, Mainz 05 lost 3-2 after extra time. In the Bundesliga season 2013/14 Pospěch was a regular player and contributed to the fact that the team reached seventh place at the end of the season and qualified for participation in the third qualifying round for the 2014/15 UEFA Europa League . Pospěch had already announced before the end of the season that he would not extend his expiring contract because he wanted to return to his family in the Czech Republic .

For the 2014/15 season Pospěch signed a contract with the Czech second division club SFC Opava and returned to his youth club. In May 2017 he and the team lost the final of the Czech Cup competition with 0: 1 against FC Fastav Zlín ; he was substituted on in the 72nd minute. Pospěch initially ended his career in June 2017, but played a few more times for the SFC in the second half of the 2017/18 season. At the end of the season, the team rose to the first division. Then Pospěch ended his active career for good.

National team

His debut in the Czech national team was Pospěch on August 17, 2005 in the 1: 2 away defeat against Sweden , when he played 45 minutes. He only played his third international match in October 2007, when he was in the starting eleven in the 3-0 win in qualifying for the Euro 2008 at the Allianz Arena in Munich against Germany and played through. With the victory, the Czech team qualified for the European Championship and overtook Germany, which had already qualified for the tournament before the game, and did not give up first place until the end of the qualification.

Pospěch was nominated together with his Copenhagen club colleague Libor Sionko in 2008 from the then national coach Karel Brückner in the squad for the European Championship finals , but was not used. In qualifying for the 2010 World Cup , he was used in seven games and scored one goal. As group third behind Slovakia and Slovenia , the qualification was missed.

In qualifying for the Euro 2012 he was used in all five games until March 2011. On August 10, 2011, the Czech team showed one of the worst performances in recent years when they lost 3-0 to Norway ; as a result, Pospěch lost his regular place to Theodor Gebre Selassie . In the remaining six games in the 2011 calendar year, he was only used four times. In qualifying, the Czech Republic took second place behind the defending champions and the reigning world champion Spain at the time and had to go to the play-offs. The victorious play-off second leg on November 15, 2011 against Montenegro was Pospěch's last game in the national team. In May 2012, he was not nominated in the preliminary squad for the European Championship finals by the national coach Michal Bílek, who has been in office since 2010 . On June 22, 2012 Pospěch resigned from the national team.

Web links

Commons : Zdeněk Pospěch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pronunciation in Czech. In: de.forvo.com. Retrieved February 8, 2015 .
  2. ↑ http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/startseite/549215/artikel_fsv-holt-zdenek-pospech.html#omsearchresult
  3. ↑ http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/uefa/qualifikation/europa-league-qualifikation/2011/3/1160415/spielbericht_1-fsv-mainz-05-30_gaz-metan-medias-3388.html
  4. ↑ Opravdový patriot Zdeněk Pospěch. V Opavě bude pokračovat i po konci kariéry irozhlas.cz of June 10, 2017, accessed on July 5, 2019 (Czech)
  5. ↑ Nečekal jsem, že budu hned tolik hrát, podivil se opavský Pospěch idnes.cz of March 20, 2018, accessed on July 5, 2019 (Czech)
  6. ↑ Pospěch definitivně skončil. Opava zahájila přípravu s prvními posilami idnes.cz from July 14, 2018, accessed on July 5, 2019 (Czech)
  7. ↑ Michal Petrak: "I am glad that I am different". In: 11 friends. June 12, 2012. Retrieved July 19, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Olympia Verlag GmbH (ed.): Bilek appoints a Bundesliga quintet. In: kicker online. May 14, 2012, accessed July 19, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Günter Nicklas: Pospech: No more Czech Republic! In: image. June 22, 2012. Retrieved July 19, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Pospěch, Zdeněk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Opava , Czechoslovakia