Josef Masopust
Masopust with the Ballon d'Or, 1962
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 9 February 1931 | ||
| Place of birth | Střimice, Czechoslovakia | ||
| Date of death | 29 June 2015 (aged 84) | ||
| Place of death | Prague, Czech Republic | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1945–1950 | ZSJ Uhlomost Most | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1950–1952 | ZSJ Technomat Teplice | 54 | (10) |
| 1952–1968 | Dukla Prague | 386 | (79) |
| 1968–1970 | Crossing Molenbeek | 43 | (9) |
| Total | 483 | (98) | |
| National team | |||
| 1954–1966 | Czechoslovakia | 63 | (10) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1973–1976 | Dukla Prague | ||
| 1976–1980 | Zbrojovka Brno | ||
| 1980–1984 | Hasselt | ||
| 1984–1987 | Czechoslovakia | ||
| 1988–1991 | Indonesian Olympic team | ||
| 1992 | Zbrojovka Brno | ||
| 1993–1996 | FK Pelikán Děčín | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Josef Masopust (9 February 1931 – 29 June 2015) was a Czech football player and coach. He played as midfielder and was a key player for Czechoslovakia, helping them reach the 1962 FIFA World Cup Final. He was capped 63 times, scoring 10 goals for his country.
He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1962. In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, Masopust was selected as his country's Golden Player by the Football Association of the Czech Republic as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years. He was named by Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers in March 2004.
Masopust's first club was lowly ZSJ Uhlomost Most, but ZSJ Technomat Teplice (renamed to ZSJ Vodotechna Teplice in 1951) signed him as a 19-year-old left-half and gave him his top-flight debut. Then, in 1952, he joined a Czechoslovak Armed Forces football club under name of ATK Praha (renamed to ÚDA Praha in 1953 and to Dukla Prague in Winter 1956). Masopust won eight league championships and three national cups with Dukla. They also reached the semi-finals of the 1966–67 European Cup, losing to the eventual winners of the competition (Celtic).
When he eventually went abroad in 1968, he helped Crossing Molenbeek win promotion to the Belgian first division as player-coach. His coaching career continued at Dukla, however his only Czechoslovak league title as a coach came with Zbrojovka Brno in the 1977–78 season. Later, between 1984 and 1987, he led the Czechoslovakia national football team, overseeing a total of 27 matches. He subsequently had a spell in Indonesia where coached their national Olympic football team with Milan Bokša between 1988 and 1991.
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