Anton Malatinský

Anton Malatinský

Personal information
Full name	Anton Malatinský
Date of birth	(1920-01-15)15 January 1920
Place of birth	Trnava, Czechoslovakia
Date of death	1 December 1992(1992-12-01) (aged 72)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1941–1950	Spartak Trnava
	Slovan Bratislava
	FK Baník Handlová
International career
1942–1943	Slovakia	6	(10)
1948–1951	Czechoslovakia	10	(0)
Managerial career
1956–1960	Spartak Trnava
1963–1968	Spartak Trnava
1968–1971	Admira Wacker
1971–1976	Spartak Trnava
1976–1978	ADO Den Haag
1978–1981	Slovan Bratislava
1981–1982	SC Eisenstadt
1982–1984	VSE St. Pölten
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Anton Malatinský (15 January 1920 – 1 December 1992) was a Slovak football player and coach. He was a technically adept playmaking midfielder and, as a coach, he was regarded as a good strategist.

He played in 219 league matches and scored 79 goals, most of them for Spartak Trnava. Today, the club's home ground bears his name. Malatinský represented Czechoslovakia in 10 international matches and was included in the 1954 World Cup squad but was not used. He became only the second Spartak player in history to be selected for the Slovakia national team after František Bolček in 1939, as well as the second selected for Czechoslovakia after Jozef Marko one month earlier in 1948.

Malatinský achieved more fame as a coach than as a player. While still playing football at a high level, he began coaching youth sides. In 1948, he led Spartak's junior team to a national championship.

A knee injury in 1956 ended his playing career after which he devoted himself exclusively to coaching. He was in charge of Spartak Trnava on three occasions, including two spells during their golden era, for a total of 14 years over two decades. He also later coached their arch-rival, Slovan Bratislava, and several clubs in Austria and the Netherlands.

Sources

• Anton Malatinský, eu-football.info (European international footballers database)