Jozef Jankech is a Slovak

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coach. He was the second manager of the Slovak national team.

Playing career

Jankech began with football in his native town

Šaľa Šaľa (, ; , ) is a town in Šaľa District within Nitra Region in south-western Slovakia. Geography Šaľa is located on the Danubian Lowland on both banks of the Váh River, around 65 km from Bratislava and 30 km from Nové Zámky. Be ...

. He played for

from the age of ten, later he left to play for

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, then played for

TTS Trenčín TTS Trenčín was a Slovak football club, playing in the town of Trenčín. History The club was founded in 1904 as Trencsény Torna Egyesület (TTE). TTS Trenčín first played in the top flight of Slovakia during World War II, when Slovak and ...

and he ended his career in TŽ Třinec as 29 years old. The first club in which he started coaching was TŽ Třinec. His playing career was not as successful as his coaching career.

Managing career

Jankech was one of the few Slovak football globetrotters. He trained in foreign several exotic teams such as

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or twice in national team of

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. Jankech starting his managerial career as ending player in

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team TŽ Třinec. Then followed stage in

Košice Košice is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of approximately 230,000, Košice is the second-largest cit ...

where he trained at first

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and then Lokomotíva Košice. In 1980 coming the first foreign job in

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team Nea Salamina Larnaka. Jankech also trained

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olympic team. Meanwhile, he was coach in

. On 4 July 1995 he became the second Slovak football trainer after

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. Jankech completed two qualification cycles, first for

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and second for the

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. He achieved several very good results against strong opponents such as victories over

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and

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at the friendly match and draws against

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and

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. He failed to progress at the championship. Jankech won

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in 2008 with

. It was the best success of Maldivian national team in history. In December 2008 Jankech moved to Dukla Banská Bystrica.

Honour

He was also a part in a Czech online football manager BREJK, where he was a pro bono 100% (best in game) couch for 15 days for a winner of brejktip, quiz in that manager. He was there nicknamed as Jozef Hlavatý
picture from game

Honours

Manager

Lokomotíva Košice *

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: 1977, 1979 Slovan Bratislava * 2. liga: Runners-up: 2005-06 (Promoted) Maldives *

: 2008

References

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