Jindřich Svoboda (footballer)

Jindřich Svoboda ( born September 14, 1952 in Adamov u Brna ) is a former Czech football player. The striker won with the Czechoslovak team gold at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the USSR. In the final against the team of the GDR, he scored the only goal.

Club career

Svoboda played in his youth for Spartak ADAST Adamov, at age 19, he moved to Brno to do his military service in the local army team Dukla. After two years he moved within the city to Zbrojovka Brno. There he won in 1978 the Czechoslovak championship. He left Brno in 1984 and played until 1986 in the second division at TJ Gottwaldov. His career continued until 1994, with smaller foreign clubs until 1996 he played for Sokol Prace.

National

Svoboda played two games for Czechoslovakia, the first on April 30, 1975, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic won the European Championship qualifier in Prague's Letna stadium against Portugal 5-0, Svoboda came on in the 76th minute for the game Zdenek Koubek. On his second international match, a goalless draw against Austria in Bazaly stadium in Ostrava on July 1, 1977, he was chosen, after 58 minutes replaced him Karol Dobiaš.

Olympic victory

At the 1980 Summer Olympics in the Soviet Union Svoboda was only substitute in the Czechoslovak team. In the final game against the GDR were no goals after 73 minutes played, still fallen, as the Czechoslovak coach František Ladislav Vízek Havranek, who had achieved so far half of the Czechoslovak gates, took the field, and replaced by Jindřich Svoboda. Svoboda was four minutes on the pitch when he scored the decisive goal that meant the Olympic victory for CSSR.