Jozef Chovanec
Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 7 March 1960 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Dolné Kočkovce, Czechoslovakia | |||||||||||||
Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder, defender | |||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||
1970–1978 | Púchov | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
1978–1979 | Sparta Prague | 47 | (6) | |||||||||||
1979–1981 | RH Cheb | 27 | (6) | |||||||||||
1981–1988 | Sparta Prague | 208 | (30) | |||||||||||
1988–1991 | PSV Eindhoven | 33 | (4) | |||||||||||
1991–1995 | Sparta Prague | 99 | (15) | |||||||||||
Total | 414 | (61) | ||||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||
1984–1992 | Czechoslovakia | 52 | (4) | |||||||||||
Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
1994 | Sparta Prague | |||||||||||||
1996–1997 | Sparta Prague | |||||||||||||
1998–2001 | Czech Republic | |||||||||||||
2002–2003 | FK Marila Příbram | |||||||||||||
2005 | Kuban Krasnodar | |||||||||||||
2008 | Sparta Prague | |||||||||||||
2008–2011 | Sparta Prague | |||||||||||||
2012–2013 | Baniyas | |||||||||||||
2014 | Ružomberok | |||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Slovan Bratislava | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Jozef Chovanec (born 7 March 1960) is a Czech former professional football player and manager.
Playing career[edit]
As a player, Chovanec spent almost his whole career at Sparta Prague. In 1988, he moved to the Netherlands, to play briefly for PSV Eindhoven. He played for Czechoslovakia and was a participant in the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
Coaching career[edit]
Chovanec coached the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2001. He managed to qualify his team to Euro 2000 but then failed to do so for the World Cup 2002, being eliminated by Belgium in the play-off matches two times by 1–0.
On 8 October 2008, Chovanec returned to Sparta Prague for his fourth spell as manager and parted from the club in December 2011.
On 19 June 2012, Chovanec was appointed head coach of UAE Pro-League side Baniyas SC.
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Jozef Chovanec at FAČR (also at old FAČR website) (in Czech)
- Profile at idnes.cz (in Czech)
- Trenéři v celé historii Sparty at sparta.cz (in Czech)
- Jozef Chovanec at WorldFootball.net
- Jozef Chovanec coach profile at National-Football-Teams.com
- Jozef Chovanec coach profile at Soccerway
- 1960 births
- Living people
- People from Púchov District
- Footballers from the Trenčín Region
- Czech people of Slovak descent
- Czech men's footballers
- Czechoslovak men's footballers
- Men's association football midfielders
- Czechoslovakia men's international footballers
- MŠK Púchov players
- Czech First League players
- AC Sparta Prague players
- FK Hvězda Cheb players
- PSV Eindhoven players
- 1990 FIFA World Cup players
- Czech football managers
- UEFA Euro 2000 managers
- Czech Republic national football team managers
- Czech First League managers
- AC Sparta Prague managers
- FK Příbram managers
- Baniyas SC managers
- FC Kuban Krasnodar managers
- MFK Ružomberok managers
- ŠK Slovan Bratislava managers
- Czech football chairmen and investors
- Czechoslovak expatriate men's footballers
- Czech expatriate football managers
- Czechoslovak expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
- Czech expatriate sportspeople in Russia
- Expatriate football managers in Russia
- Czech expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates
- Expatriate football managers in the United Arab Emirates