Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 1 August 1902 | ||
Place of birth | Prague, Austro-Hungary | ||
Date of death | 5 May 1983 | (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]
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]
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.