Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | (1902-08-01)1 August 1902 | ||
Place of birth | Prague, Austro-Hungary | ||
Date of death | 5 May 1983(1983-05-05) (aged 80) | ||
Place of death | Prague, Czechoslovakia | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Youth career | |||
1914–1915 | Viktoria Žižkov | ||
1915–1919 | Slavia Prague | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1919 | Slavia Prague | 19 | (5) |
1920 | Vojvodina | 16 | (3) |
1921–1927 | Slavia Prague | 129 | (11) |
1928–1931 | Kladno | 54 | (12) |
International career | |||
1923–1926 | Czechoslovakia | 7 | (8) |
Managerial career | |||
1941–1946 | Polaban Nymburk | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Josef Čapek (1 August 1902 – 5 May 1983) was a Czech footballer who played for SK Slavia Prague, SK Kladno and the Czechoslovak national team.
Career
Born in Prague in 1902, he begin playing with Viktoria Žižkov in 1914 but in 1915 he joined the youth team of Slavia Prague. In 1920 Čapek had a short spell in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia playing with FK Vojvodina, a club with traditional connection with Slavia Prague. He returned to Slavia and stayed until 1928, winning the first edition of the Czechoslovak First League with them in 1925.
In 1927 he moved to another Czechoslovak First League club, SK Kladno, where he played until 1931.
He later coached Polaban Nymburk between 1941 and 1946.
National team
He represented the Czechoslovakia national team on seven occasions, scoring eight goals. His debut was on 1 July 1923, in a friendly match against Romania (a 6–0 win, with Čapek scoring twice) and his farewell match was on 28 October 1926 in a friendly match against Italy (a 3–1 win, with Čapek again scoring twice). He was member of the Czechoslovakia squad at the 1924 Olympics having played as number 10 in the first match against Turkey in a 5–2 win with him scoring the fifth goal, and in the second match against Switzerland, that ended with a 1–1 draw. Two days later a second match was played against Switzerland with Čapek being an unused substitute and ending with Czechoslovakia losing 0–1.
Honours
- Slavia Prague
References
- Josef Čapek at Worldfootball.
- "Josef Čapek". Olympedia. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- Playerhistory.com
- ^ Jeřábek, Luboš (2007). Český a československý fotbal – lexikon osobností a klubů (in Czech). Prague, Czech Republic: Grada Publishing. p. 32. ISBN 978-80-247-1656-5.
- 1919 season Archived 23 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine at Slavia Prague official website.
- 1920 season at FKVojvodina.com.
- ^ 1925 season Archived 23 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine at Slavia Prague official website.
- Josef Čapek Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine at Czech Football Association official website.
- Match report 1924: Czechoslovakia vs Turkey at FIFA.com.
- Match report 1924: Czechoslovakia vs Switzerland at FIFA.com.
External links
- Josef Čapek at National-Football-Teams.com
- Josef Čapek at EU-Football.info
- Josef Čapek at the Czech Olympic Committee (in Czech)
- Josef Čapek at Olympedia
Czechoslovakia football squad – 1924 Summer Olympics | ||
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- 1902 births
- 1983 deaths
- Footballers from Prague
- People from the Kingdom of Bohemia
- Czech men's footballers
- Czechoslovak men's footballers
- Czech football managers
- Czechoslovak football managers
- Czechoslovakia men's international footballers
- Czechoslovak First League players
- Men's association football forwards
- SK Slavia Prague players
- SK Kladno players
- FK Vojvodina players
- Expatriate men's footballers in Yugoslavia
- Olympic footballers for Czechoslovakia
- Footballers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- Czechoslovak expatriate sportspeople in Yugoslavia
- Czechoslovak expatriate men's footballers