Jozef Chovanec
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Jozef Chovanec | ||
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) | |
National team | |||
1984–1992 | Czechoslovakia | 52 | (4) |
Teams managed | |||
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 | ||
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Honours | |||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Jozef Chovanec (born 7 March 1960) is a Czech former professional football player and manager.
Playing career[]
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[]
As a football manager he 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 AC Sparta Prague for his fourth spell as manager and parted from the club in December 2011.
On 19 June 2012, Chovanec was appointed as head coach of UAE Pro-League side Baniyas SC.
Corruption scandal[]
In October 2020, it was revealed that Chovanec had been removed from the position as chairman of the Football Association of the Czech Republic for his involvement in a large-scale corruption series; his associate Roman Berbr was also fired from the FACR.[1]
References[]
- Jozef Chovanec at FAČR (in Czech)
- Jozef Chovanec at WorldFootball.net
- Jozef Chovanec at National-Football-Teams.com
- Profile at idnes.cz
- Trenéři v celé historii Sparty at sparta.cz (in Czech)
- 1960 births
- Living people
- People from Púchov District
- Association football midfielders
- Czech footballers
- Czechoslovak footballers
- Czechoslovakia 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
- Czechoslovak expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands
- Czech football managers
- Czech expatriate football managers
- Czech Republic national football team managers
- Czech First League managers
- AC Sparta Prague managers
- 1. FK Příbram managers
- Baniyas SC managers
- FC Kuban Krasnodar managers
- MFK Ružomberok managers
- UEFA Euro 2000 managers
- Czech football chairmen and investors
- Czechoslovak expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- Czech people of Slovak descent
- Expatriate football managers in Russia
- Expatriate football managers in the United Arab Emirates
- Czech expatriates in Russia
- Czech expatriates in the United Arab Emirates
- ŠK Slovan Bratislava managers