Josef Čapek (footballer)

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.

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)
Playing 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)
National team
1923–1926 Czechoslovakia 7 (8)
Teams managed
1941–1946 Polaban Nymburk
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Born in Prague[2] in 1902, he begin playing with Viktoria Žižkov in 1914[3] but in 1915 he joined the youth team of Slavia Prague.[4] In 1920 Čapek had a short spell in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia playing with FK Vojvodina,[5] 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.[6]

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

He later coached Polaban Nymburk[7] between 1941 and 1946.[3]

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).[8] 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,[9] and in the second match against Switzerland, that ended with a 1-1 draw.[10] 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. Playerhistory.com
  3. Češký a československý fotbal - lexikon osobností a klubů by Luboš Jeřábek, pag. 32
  4. 1919 season Archived 23 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine at Slavia Prague official website.
  5. 1920 season at FKVojvodina.com.
  6. 1925 season Archived 23 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine at Slavia Prague official website.
  7. Jeřábek, L. (2007). Český a československý fotbal - lexikon osobností a klubů. Grada. p. 71. ISBN 9788024716565. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  8. Josef Čapek Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine at Czech Football Association official website.
  9. Match report 1924: Czechoslovakia vs Turkey at FIFA.com.
  10. Match report 1924: Czechoslovakia vs Switzerland at FIFA.com.
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