Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 21 August 1958 | ||
Place of birth | Prague, Czechoslovakia | ||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | ||
Playing position | Defender | ||
Youth career | |||
–1973 | FSC Libuš | ||
1973–1977 | Dukla Prague | ||
1977–1979 | VTJ Čáslav | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1979–1988 | Dukla Prague | 16 | (8) |
1988–1990 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 52 | (3) |
1990–1991 | Rot-Weiss Essen | 7 | (1) |
1991 | Dukla Prague | 12 | (4) |
1991–1992 | Toronto Blizzard | 87 | (26) |
1992 | SSV Jahn Regensburg | 9 | (12) |
1992–1993 | FK Chmel Blšany | 15 | (2) |
1993–1995 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 30 | (2) |
1995–1996 | FC Bohemians Prague | 41 | (19) |
Total | 269 | (77) | |
National team | |||
1982–1986 | Czechoslovakia | 11 | (2) |
Teams managed | |||
1998 | Slavia Prague | ||
2000–2001 | FK Teplice | ||
2001–2002 | FC Viktoria Plzeň | ||
2003–2007 | FK Jablonec 97 | ||
2007–2008 | FK Teplice | ||
2008–2009 | Czech Republic | ||
2010–2011 | FC Slovan Liberec | ||
2011–2012 | FK Teplice | ||
2012–2013 | Slavia Prague | ||
2013–2014 | FC Vysočina Jihlava | ||
2015 | FK Teplice | ||
2016–2017 | Příbram | ||
2017- | Sparta Prague | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Petr Rada (born 21 August 1958) is a Czech football coach and former player. He represented Czechoslovakia internationally in the 1980s and managed the Czech Republic national football team between 2008 and 2009. He is well known for his arguments with fans or trainer colleagues and also for impulsive style of coaching.
Before being named national team manager in July 2008, Rada worked as an assistant for then national team coach Karel Brückner from 2006 to 2008, and also as an assistant to Jozef Chovanec from 1998 to 2001 when Chovanec was manager of the Czech national team. Rada has also been head manager of six various Czech clubs: FK Teplice (on four separate occasions), FC Viktoria Plzeň, FK Baumit Jablonec, FC Slovan Liberec, SK Slavia Prague and FC Vysočina Jihlava.
In his playing days, Rada was a defender, who starred for Dukla Prague for nine years, from 1979 to 1988. He won the Czechoslovak First League with them in 1979 and 1982. Rada also made eleven appearances for his national team, Czechoslovakia.
Rada joined Jablonec as manager in October 2003 and led the team to the final of the 2006–07 Czech Cup, where they lost against Sparta Prague. After nearly four years at the club, Rada decided to leave the club in 2007.
On 8 April 2009, he was sacked as coach of the Czech Republic national team after the team won just two of their six qualification matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.