Jozef Chovanec

Jozef Chovanec

Personal information
Full name	Jozef Chovanec
Date of birth	(1960-03-07) 7 March 1960
Place of birth	Dolné Kočkovce, Czechoslovakia
Height
Position(s)	Midfielder / Defender
Youth career
1970–1978	Púchov
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1978–1979	Sparta Prague	47	(6)
1979–1981	RH Cheb	27	(6)
1981–1988	Sparta Prague	208	(30)
1988–1991	PSV Eindhoven	33	(4)
1991–1995	Sparta Prague	99	(15)
Total		414	(61)
International career
1984–1992	Czechoslovakia	52	(4)
Managerial career
1994	Sparta Prague
1996–1997	Sparta Prague
1998–2001	Czech Republic
2002–2003	FK Marila Příbram
2005	Kuban Krasnodar
2008–2011	Sparta Prague
2012–2013	Baniyas
2014	Ružomberok
2014–2015	Slovan Bratislava
Medal record AC Sparta Prague Winner Gambrinus liga 1993–94 Winner Gambrinus liga 1994–95
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jozef Chovanec (born 7 March 1960) is a former Czechoslovak football player and manager.

Playing career

As a player, Chovanec spent almost his whole career at Sparta Prague. In 1988 he moved to the Netherlands, to play briefly for PSV Eindhoven. He played for Czechoslovakia and was a participant in the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

Coaching career

As a football manager he coached the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2001. He managed to qualify his team to Euro 2000 but then failed to do so for the World Cup 2002, being eliminated by Belgium in the play-off matches two times by 1-0.

On 8 October 2008, Chovanec returned to AC Sparta Prague for his fourth spell as manager and parted from the club in December 2011.

On 19 June 2012, Chovanec was appointed as head coach of UAE Pro-League side Baniyas SC.

References

• Jozef Chovanec international stats at the Football Association of the Czech Republic website (Czech)
• World Football profile
• Jozef Chovanec at National-Football-Teams.com
• Profile at idnes.cz
• Trenéři v celé historii Sparty at sparta.cz (Czech)