Ján Kocian
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ján Kocian | ||
| Position(s) |
Manager (former defender) | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Retired | ||
| ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of November 16, 2006 | |||
Ján Kocian (born 13 March 1958 in Zlaté Moravce) is a Slovak football player and coach.
During his playing days, he made 209 appearances for FK Dukla Banská Bystrica between 1979 and 1988 before moving on to German club FC St. Pauli, where he made another 147 appearances up to 1993.
He was capped 26 times by Czechoslovakia. Playing at sweeper as the team reached the 1990 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals, Kocian was voted the country's player of the year.
Kocian began his coaching career with Czech side FK Drnovice before moving to the German clubs FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt and Sportfreunde Siegen. He has also worked as an assistant at 1. FC Köln and Eintracht Frankfurt.
He was appointed the new head coach of the Slovakia national football team on 2 November 2006, replacing Dušan Galis. Previously, he had worked as an assistant to former national coach Dr Jozef Vengloš between 1993 and 1995.
