Josef Kuchynka (4 August 1894 – 9 January 1979) was a Czechoslovak

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Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...

's squad at the 1924 Olympics, but he did not play in any matches. A

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by profession, Kuchynka played as a footballer mostly for

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, a football team of ethnic Germans in Prague. In 1924 he appeared in one Czechoslovakia national team match, playing against

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, Kuchynka coached

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. After the war, he coached SK Slezská Ostrava from 1946 to 1948. After the communist takeover of power in February 1948, he was forbidden to work as a professional football manager and was supposed to work in a

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. He decided to leave Czechoslovakia and later worked in

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, coaching

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in 1948–1950. He returned to Czechoslovakia in his retirement age.

Honours

Manager

Sparta Prague *

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: 1938–39, 1943–44 Wisła Kraków *

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1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 ...

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References

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