Jan Koller

Jan Koller 2009

Jan Koller ( born March 30, 1973 in Smetanova Lhota ) is a former Czech football player.

Career

Association

Jan Koller came in 1994 with 20 years to Sparta Prague, the series champion and top club in his home country. After he could not prevail in three years in Prague, he moved to Belgium to SK Lokeren. Here he grew and was in the 1998/99 season with 24 goals scorer in the Belgian first division. In 1999, Koller Lokeren Belgian tradition for club RSC Anderlecht, in which he matured into a top international striker. In the two seasons 1999-2001, he scored 43 goals for the RSC, was Belgian champion twice and gained initial experience in the Champions League. In the season 1999/ 00 Jan Koller was elected to the Belgian Footballer of the Year.

In 2001, the attacker in the German Bundesliga. With Borussia Dortmund, he became German champion in the very first season and reached the final of the UEFA Cup, the Dortmund against Feyenoord Rotterdam but lost. In the final, he scored the 2:3; this Score was also the final result.

For a Bundesliga history of a special kind Jan Koller made ​​on 9 November 2002. Away game in his Dortmund at Bayern minutes from the 67th Koller guarded the gate of his team after the former Dortmund keeper Jens Lehmann was sent off and the Auswechselkontingent BVB was already exhausted at this time. Koller roamed over Lehmann's jersey and was one of the best performances of a torhütenden fielder in the Bundesliga. From Kicker sports magazine Koller was named after this 12 Matchday even in the " Team of the Week " - at the goalkeeper position. The last of his five years in Germany was under an unlucky star: After a torn ACL in September 2005, Koller was a long time injured and fell to May 2006.

Beginning of June 2006 joined Jan Koller of Borussia Dortmund for AS Monaco, where he obtained in 50 games overall with twelve gates. Early January 2008, Koller returned to the Bundesliga back and signed at the 1 FC Nuremberg a contract until June 2010. The club had him brought to the half of the season 2007/ 08 to strengthen the storm for the relegation battle. The league still could not. After the descent Koller joined the 2008/09 season with the Russian first division club Krylia Sovetov Samara.

At the end of 2009 sparked Koller his contract with the Russian club and made ​​his career in the French third division club AS Cannes finish. But he signed in January 2010 a contract until 2011. Already in his first appearance with Cannes he steered the third goal in a 3-0 win against Bayonne at. The first suffering from teething problems Koller finally was able to completely penetrate at Cannes and was one of his goals to the most dangerous strikers in the league. In the summer of 2011, he ended his career because of persistent injury problems.

He currently lives with his family in Monaco and announced in an interview to want to make the coaching license.

National

At 25, Jan Koller was first used on 9 February 1999 in the Czech national team; Since 2000 he was a regular player there. With the Czech Republic, he took part in the EURO 2000, 2004 and 2008 and the 2006 World Cup. Since June 2005, Koller is the sole scorer of the Czech national team after he set the record of Antonín Puč from the years 1926-39 with his 35th international goal ( the official statistics of the Czech team also includes the meetings of Czechoslovakia from 1920 to 1992).

After 2006, his comeback was successful after überstandenem cruciate ligament rupture in the last three games of the Bundesliga season, coach Karel Brückner appointed him to the World Cup squad of the Czech national team. But here Koller remained accident-prone: In the very first World Cup match against the Czechs, the United States, he was injured again. In the following games of the Czechs against Ghana and Italy Koller was missing his team, and not least for this reason, the World Championship for the Czech Republic was already after the first round ended.

At the European Championships in 2008 Koller scored in the last group match against Turkey 1-0 lead for the Czech Republic. The game ended despite a 2-0 lead in the Czech Republic still 3:2 for Turkey, and Jan Koller said after the game that he will retire from international football. However, he was nominated for the 2010 World Cup qualifiers in South Africa to encounter the Czech Republic and Slovakia, as Koller had declared that if the Czech team needed his help, he would be willing to help. On September 5, he made by his 91 international match. On the same day, however, he declared his final resignation from the Czech national team.

Play

Koller's great strengths were due to its size of 202 cm and shoe size 50 as well as his massive body in the heading ability and Ballabschirmen.

Achievements

  • Czech Champion 1995
  • Czech Cup Winners 1996
  • Belgian Champion 2000, 2001
  • Belgian League Cup Winners 2000
  • Belgian Supercup final 2000
  • German Champion 2002
  • UEFA Cup Final 2002
  • EURO 2004 semi-finals
  • Czech Footballer of the Year 1999
  • Belgium's Footballer of the Year 2000
  • Belgian scorer in 1999
AS Monaco FC Lorenzo Staelens Belgian Golden Shoe Wesley Sonck
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