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

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. In 1988, he moved to the

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, to play briefly for

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. He played for

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and was a participant in the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

Coaching career

As a football manager he coached the

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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 ) but refer to Spartans as "''Rudí''" ( en, The Dark Reds/The Maroons).'' Letenští'' , ground = Generali Česká pojišťovna Arena , capacity = 19,416 , clubname = Sparta Prague , image = Sparta Praha logo.png , image_size = 160px , fu ...

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 Chovanec has been removed from the position as chairman of the referees of the Football Association of the Czech Republic due to Roman Berbr corruption affair.https://www.time24story.com/2020/10/a-long-standing-representative-is-also-to-be-involved-in-a-corruption-affair-in-the-czech-republic-he-had-an-arbitrator-replaced.html

References

External links

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Profile at idnes.cz

Trenéři v celé historii Sparty at sparta.cz
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chovanec, Jozef 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