Josef Čapek
Personal information
Date of birth (1902-08-01)1 August 1902
Place of birth Prague, Austro-Hungary
Date of death 5 May 1983(1983-05-05) (aged 80)
Place of death Prague, Czechoslovakia
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
1914–1915 Viktoria Žižkov
1915–1919 Slavia Prague
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1919 Slavia Prague 19 (5)
1920 Vojvodina 16 (3)
1921–1927 Slavia Prague 129 (11)
1928–1931 Kladno 54 (12)
International career
1923–1926 Czechoslovakia 7 (8)
Managerial career
1941–1946 Polaban Nymburk
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Josef Čapek (1 August 1902 – 5 May 1983[1]) was a Czech footballer who played for SK Slavia Prague, SK Kladno and the Czechoslovak national team.[2]

Career

Born in Prague[3] in 1902, he begin playing with Viktoria Žižkov in 1914[4] but in 1915 he joined the youth team of Slavia Prague.[5] In 1920 Čapek had a short spell in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia playing with FK Vojvodina,[6] a club with traditional connection with Slavia Prague. He returned to Slavia and stayed until 1928, winning the first edition of the Czechoslovak First League with them in 1925.[7]

In 1927 he moved to another Czechoslovak First League club, SK Kladno, where he played until 1931.

He later coached Polaban Nymburk[8] between 1941 and 1946.[4]

National team

He represented the Czechoslovakia national team on seven occasions, scoring eight goals. His debut was on 1 July 1923, in a friendly match against Romania (a 6–0 win, with Čapek scoring twice) and his farewell match was on 28 October 1926 in a friendly match against Italy (a 3–1 win, with Čapek again scoring twice).[9] He was member of the Czechoslovakia squad at the 1924 Olympics having played as number 10 in the first match against Turkey in a 5–2 win with him scoring the fifth goal,[10] and in the second match against Switzerland, that ended with a 1–1 draw.[11] Two days later a second match was played against Switzerland with Čapek being an unused substitute and ending with Czechoslovakia losing 0–1.

Honours

Slavia Prague

References

  1. ↑ Josef Čapek at Worldfootball.
  2. ↑ "Josef Čapek". Olympedia. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  3. ↑ Playerhistory.com
  4. 1 2 Češký a československý fotbal – lexikon osobností a klubů by Luboš Jeřábek, pag. 32
  5. ↑ 1919 season Archived 23 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine at Slavia Prague official website.
  6. ↑ 1920 season at FKVojvodina.com.
  7. 1 2 1925 season Archived 23 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine at Slavia Prague official website.
  8. ↑ Jeřábek, L. (2007). Český a československý fotbal – lexikon osobností a klubů. Grada. p. 71. ISBN 9788024716565. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  9. ↑ Josef Čapek Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine at Czech Football Association official website.
  10. ↑ Match report 1924: Czechoslovakia vs Turkey at FIFA.com.
  11. ↑ Match report 1924: Czechoslovakia vs Switzerland at FIFA.com.
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