Zdeněk Zeman

Zdeněk Zeman
Zdeněk Zeman 2007
Personnel
birthday	May 12, 1947
place of birth	Prague ,  Czechoslovakia
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1981-1983	Palermo FBC (Youth)
1983-1986	Licata Calcio
1986-1987	US Foggia
1987	AC Parma
1988-1989	FC Messina
1989-1994	US Foggia
1994-1997	Lazio Rome
1997-1999	AS Roma
1999-2000	Fenerbahçe Istanbul
2000	SSC Naples
2001-2002	Salernitana Sport
2003-2004	US Avellino
2004-2005	US Lecce
2006	Brescia Calcio
2006	US Lecce
2008	Red Star Belgrade
2010-2011	US Foggia
2011–2012	Delfino Pescara 1936
2012-2013	AS Roma
2014	Cagliari Calcio
2015	Cagliari Calcio
2015-2016	FC Lugano
2017-2018	Delfino Pescara 1936

Zdeněk Zeman (born May 12, 1947 in Prague ) is a Czech - Italian football coach .

Life

His father Karel was a doctor, his mother Květuše (maiden name Vycpálková) a housewife. In his youth he played soccer at Slavia Prague , but also volleyball and handball . During the holidays he visited his uncle Čestmír Vycpálek in Sicily . Vycpálek was a former player and later coach at Juventus Turin .

In the summer of 1969, one year after the Warsaw Pact troops invaded the Czechoslovakia , Zeman decided not to return to Prague from Sicily. In Palermo he studied at the Sport University and graduated with the highest possible score. In 1975 he became an Italian citizen .

Coaching career

Zeman began his coaching career at the amateur club Cinisi, a village near Palermo. The stations Bacigalupo, Carini, Misilmeri and Esacalza followed. In 1974 he was after the advocacy of Čestmír Vycpáleks youth coach at US Palermo . He held this position until 1983, in the meantime he had successfully completed his training as a football coach in Coverciano.

In 1983 Zeman moved to the fourth division Licata, with whom he rose a year later to Serie C1 , the third Italian division. In 1986 he moved to Foggia , but was dismissed there on the 27th matchday because he should have already reached an agreement with AC Parma . In Parma he was released in the 1987/88 season after only seven match days. In 1988 Zeman returned to Sicily, for FC Messina . He led the team in eighth place of the Series B .

1989 it undertook again Foggia, newly promoted to Serie B. In the first year the team landed at No. 8, Foggia rose as a table in the first season in the 1990/91 Serie A on. Zemans Foggia, the Foggia dei miracoli , held the league for three years in a row, despite all expert opinions . During this time, Zeman made a name for himself not only with his unconventionally offensive style of play with a 4-3-3 system , but also as a coach with an eye for talent.

In 1994 he left Foggia and signed with Lazio Rome , with whom he was runner-up in the first year, and third in the second year. After a 2-1 home defeat to Bologna , Zeman was sacked on January 27, 1997. A short time later, he accepted an offer from city rivals AS Roma for the coming season. After a fourth place in the first and a fifth place in the second year, Zeman and AS Rom parted ways.

In the summer of 1998 he denounced doping in football and made many enemies as a result. After a few months without a coaching job, he accepted an offer from Fenerbahçe Istanbul in October 1999 , but after only three months he resigned from the office of coach. In the summer of 2000, SSC Napoli introduced him as a new coach, after six games without a win he was sacked. From 2001 to 2003 Zeman stayed in Campania , this time in Salerno with the local second division Salernitana Sport . After finishing sixth in the first season, Zeman was released in the second year after the 17th matchday. In 2003/04 he coached US Avellino in Serie B.

For the 2004/05 season he returned to Serie A and took over US Lecce , which showed a universally respected game and was eleventh. Nevertheless, Zeman resigned from his post at the end of the season. After several months without coaching, he engaged on March 5, 2006 Brescia Calcio . For the 2006/07 season he took over the coaching position at Lecce again, but was released from his duties on December 24, 2006.

For the 2008/09 season, Zeman took over the Serbian first division club FK Red Star Belgrade , but was dismissed after a few game days due to unsuccessfulness.

On July 14, 2010, Pasquale Casillo, President of the Foggia dei miracoli of the 1990s, again took over the US Foggia . This hired Zeman as coach and Giuseppe Pavone as sporting director and thus reunited the trio that had caused a sensation with the southern Italian club in the 1990s in Serie A. In the 2010/11 season of Group B of the Lega Pro Prima Divisione , Foggia again had a very good offensive, as it did in the first division under Zeman, with 67 goals of the season they had by far the best storm, but had by far the most goals against with 58 goals accept. Overall, the US Foggia finished the season in sixth place and thus missed the promotion playoffs, whereupon Zdeněk Zeman resigned. About a month later, on June 21, 2011, he became the new coach and technical director at the second division club Pescara Calcio , with whom he signed a one-year contract.

Zeman, who had just been promoted to Serie A with Pescara Calcio, became a coach at AS Roma from June 2012, where he had worked from 1997 to 1999. On February 2, 2013, he was dismissed after a 2-4 loss to Cagliari Calcio . In 2014 Zeman was a trainer at Cagliari Calcio. In March 2015 he inherited his temporary successor Gianfranco Zola there. In the 2015/16 season he was the coach of Swiss club FC Lugano . However, he left this again in June 2016.

In February 2017, Zeman took over his ex-club Delfino Pescara 1936 again . In March 2018, Zeman was on leave.

Web links

• Website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Raggiunto l'accordo a Foggia: torna Casillo e si porta dietro Zeman e Pavone. www.ilgiornale.it, accessed July 22, 2010 (Italian). 
2. ↑ "AS Roma has a new coach - Zdenek Zeman takes over" , goal.com from June 2, 2012 (accessed June 2, 2012).
3. ^ Zdenek Zeman nuovo tecnico del Pescara. In: pescaracalcio.com. Delfino Pescara 1936 SpA , February 17, 2017, accessed February 20, 2017 (Italian).