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

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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

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. 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 Slovakia national team.

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

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. His most memorable performance was his hat-trick against

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in match Czechoslovakia - Brazil 3–2 (1–1) played on 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

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, 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 Slovakia national team. 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,

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: 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:

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Manager

Inter Bratislava * Slovak Cup: 1989–90

References

External links

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Osobnosti.sk
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