Ján Strausz (16 November 1942 – 29 November 2017), nicknamed ''Johan'' after composer
Johann Strauss
Johann Baptist Strauss II (25 October 1825 – 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son (german: links=no, Sohn), was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed ov ...
, was a
Slovak football striker who played for
Jednota Košice,
Dukla Prague
Dukla Prague ( cz, Dukla Praha) was a Czech football club from the city of Prague. Established in 1948 as ATK Praha, the club won a total of 11 Czechoslovak league titles and eight Czechoslovak Cups, and in the 1966–67 season, reached the se ...
(1965–1966),
VSS Košice (1963–1965 and 1967–1975), Baník Rožňava,
Tatran Prešov and Družstevník Čaňa within years 1960–1979. He overall played 261 matches and scored 115 goals in the
Czechoslovak First League
The Czechoslovak First League ( cs, 1. fotbalová liga, sk, 1. futbalová liga) was the premier football league in the Czechoslovakia from 1925 to 1993, with the exception of World War II. Czechoslovakia was occupied by German forces who forme ...
.
Zomrel Ján Strausz
Strausz was capped once for the Czechoslovakia national football team
The Czechoslovakia national football team ( cs, Československá fotbalová reprezentace, sk, Česko-slovenské národné futbalové mužstvo) was the national football team of Czechoslovakia from 1920 to 1993. The team was controlled by the Cz ...
against Romania
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on 30 May 1965.
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1942 births
2017 deaths
Sportspeople from Mukachevo
Slovak men's footballers
Czechoslovak men's footballers
Czechoslovakia men's international footballers
FC VSS Košice players
Dukla Prague footballers
1. FC Tatran Prešov players
Men's association football forwards
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