Jozef Adamec (26 February 1942 – 24 December 2018) was a Slovak football forward and

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. Adamec won seven

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titles in his club career, winning two with

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during his

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, followed by five more while playing for

Spartak Trnava FC Spartak Trnava () is a Slovak professional football club based in Trnava. Historically, it is one of the most successful clubs in the country, having won the Czechoslovak First League five times and the Czechoslovak Cup on four occasions, an ...

. Other clubs he played for were Slovan Bratislava and lower-division Austrian club Slovan Wien, where he took on a

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role. As a football manager, Adamec took charge of clubs in Czechoslovakia and later Slovakia. Between 1999 and 2001 he led the

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Career

In the

he played 383 matches and with 170 goals is 10th in the Czechoslovak All-Time Topscorers Table. He was capped 44 times for

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, scoring 14 goals. He was a participant at the

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and 1970 FIFA World Cup. His most memorable performance was his hat-trick against

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in match Czechoslovakia - Brazil 3:2 (1:1) played at 23 June 1968 in Bratislava. He was often incorrectly referred to as the first player ever to score a hat-trick against Brazil (Pole

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had scored four goals in the 1938 World Cup match). After retiring as player, Adamec began with football coaching as an assistant in

. Later he coached Dukla Banská Bystrica, Tatran Prešov, Spartak Trnava and Slovan Bratislava. Between 1988 and 1991, he was the manager of

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, winning the

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with the club in the 1989–90 season. He was assistant to Czechoslovakia coach

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in 1993. From 1999 to 2001 Adamec coached the

. Adamec died in 2018 at the age of 76.

Honours

Player

Dukla Prague *

: 1961–62, 1962–63 Spartak Trnava * Czechoslovak First League: 1967–68, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73 *

Czechoslovak Cup The Czechoslovak Cup () was a football cup competition held in Czechoslovakia. It was officially created in 1960 and folded in 1993 with the split between Czech Republic and Slovakia. The cup was played throughout Czechoslovakia until 1968–69. ...

: 1966–67, 1970–71, 1974–75 *

: 1970–71, 1974–75 *

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: 1966–67; runner-up: 1967–68 Czechoslovakia *

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runner-up:

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ...

Manager

Inter Bratislava * Slovak Cup: 1989–90

References

External links

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Osobnosti.sk
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Adamec, Jozef 1942 births 2018 deaths People from Vrbové Sportspeople from the Trnava Region Slovak footballers Czechoslovak footballers Czechoslovak football managers Slovak football managers Slovak expatriate football managers 1962 FIFA World Cup players 1970 FIFA World Cup players Czechoslovakia international footballers Dukla Prague footballers FC Spartak Trnava players ŠK Slovan Bratislava players Slovakia national football team managers FC Spartak Trnava managers FK Inter Bratislava managers 1. FC Tatran Prešov managers FC Fastav Zlín managers bohemians 1905 managers FK Dukla Banská Bystrica managers SK Vorwärts Steyr managers FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda managers FC Petržalka managers Association football forwards