Josef Kuchynka
Josef Kuchynka (4 August 1894 – 9 January 1979) was a Czechoslovak football manager and former player of German ethnicity.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 4 August 1894 | ||
| Place of birth | Prague, Austria-Hungary | ||
| Date of death | 9 January 1979 (aged 84) | ||
| Place of death | Czechoslovakia | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1915–1935 | DFC Prague | ||
| National team | |||
| 1924 | Czechoslovakia | 1 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1935–1936 | SK Kladno | ||
| 1938 | SK Kladno | ||
| 1939 | SK Židenice | ||
| 1939–1944 | Sparta Prague | ||
| 1945–1946 | Slovena Žilina | ||
| 1946–1948 | SK Slezská Ostrava | ||
| 1948–1950 | Wisła Kraków | ||
| 1952–1953 | Svit Gottwaldov | ||
| 1958–1959 | Wisła Kraków | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
A locksmith by profession, Kuchynka played as a footballer mostly for DFC Prague, a football team of ethnic Germans in Prague. In 1924 he appeared in one Czechoslovakia national team match, playing against Yugoslavia in Zagreb. During World War II, Kuchynka coached Sparta Prague. After the war, he coached SK Slezská Ostrava from 1946 to 1948.[1] 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 coal mine.[2] He decided to leave Czechoslovakia and later worked in Poland, coaching Wisła Kraków in 1948–1950. He returned to Czechoslovakia in his retirement age.
Footnotes
- Jeřábek, L. (2007). Český a československý fotbal - lexikon osobností a klubů. Grada. p. 71. ISBN 9788024716565. Retrieved 2015-08-25.
- Král, Lubomír (2006). Historie německé kopané v Čechách. Praha: MJF. p. 137. ISBN 80-86284-59-X.
References
- Profile at the ČMFS website at the Wayback Machine (archived April 13, 2014) (in Czech)
- Trenéři v celé historii Sparty at the Sparta Prague website (in Czech)