 Mašek in 2015 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1941-03-21) 21 March 1941 (age 83) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
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| 0000–1957 | ABC Braník | ||||||||||||||||
| 1957–1958 | Sparta Prague | ||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1958–1970 | Sparta Prague | ||||||||||||||||
| 1970–1971 | Dukla Prague | 7 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1971–1973 | Sparta Prague | ||||||||||||||||
| 1974–1978 | ABC Braník | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1960–1965 | Czechoslovakia | 16 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Václav Mašek (born 21 March 1941) is a Czech football player who played as a striker. He was a member of the Czechoslovakia national football team, for which he played 16 matches and scored 5 goals.
In Czechoslovakia, he played 313 league matches and scored 127 goals for Sparta Prague.
He was a participant in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, where his country were runners up, losing to Brazil in the final. In a match against Mexico, he became famous for scoring a goal after only 16 seconds of play, the fastest goal in World Cup history until forty years later, when his record was beaten by Hakan Şükür of Turkey, by scoring after 11 seconds in the 3rd place match of the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
References
- Profile at the ČMFS website
- FIFA Profile
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| Preceded byErnst Lehner | Fastest World Cup Goalscorer 16 seconds 7 June 1962 – 29 June 2002 |
Succeeded byHakan Şükür |
| Czechoslovakia squad – 1962 FIFA World Cup runners-up | ||
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- 1941 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Prague
- Czech men's footballers
- Czechoslovak men's footballers
- 1962 FIFA World Cup players
- Czechoslovakia men's international footballers
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- Dukla Prague footballers
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