Ján Pivarník

Ján Pivarnik ( born November 13, 1947 in Cejkov ) is a former Slovak football player and current football coach.

• 2.1 Achievements

Playing career

Ján Pivarnik was already 16 years old when he began to play football in the club. But the club of his birthplace Cejkov he left after a short time and played from then on Slavoj Trebišov. The first year of the full-back played yet in the juniors, but since 1965/66, he ran for the first team on in the second Czechoslovak league. There he fell through good performance in such a way that he was nominated for the U18 national team, which played a UEFA tournament in Yugoslavia. There, too, played Pivarnik outstanding, and it was clear that it Slavoj Trebišov would not be able to keep. For the right-back to Spartak Trnava interested, but offered neither release nor earnest money. The VSS Košice both paid and also took care of even that Pivarnik got an education. In Košice, the right-back made ​​mainly because of its speed soon a name. On April 27, 1968 Ján Pivarnik debuted in the 3-2 against Brazil in Bratislava, the Czechoslovak national team. He stood in the 1970 World Cup squad, played in Mexico but not a game.

In 1971, it looked as if Pivarnik switch to Sparta Prague, but the transfer failed, and his teammates Jaroslav Pollák wanted to change what the officials did not fit, which then blocked the transfer. A new contract with VSS Košice but not signed the blond defender and left the club in 1972 in the direction of Slovan Bratislava. There he celebrated with the Cup victory in 1974 and the championships in 1974 and 1975 his greatest successes at club level. In 1974 he was elected Czechoslovak Footballer of the Year.

With the Czechoslovak national team became European Champion Ján Pivarnik 1976 in Yugoslavia, but even there he was plagued by a meniscus surgery injury problems. Already with 30 years of his career end pointing from. In the 1978/79 season he was still trying it at Dukla Banská Bystrica, denied there but not a single League game. He then took one last attempt at Slovan Bratislava, but gave only two training units. In his career, Ján Pivarnik played 267 games in the 1st Czechoslovak League, in which he scored 13 goals.

From 1979 to 1981 Pivarnik worked as player-manager of the Austrian clubs ASV Kittsee and SC Neusiedl am See. In the summer of 1981, he attempted a comeback with the Spanish first division club FC Cadiz, which also Dušan Galis was changed. In the defensive midfield Pivarnik played eight games, but when the FC Cadiz did not follow contract agreements, brought back the competent agency Pragosport both Galis and Pivarnik.

Achievements

Team:

• European Champion 1976
• Czechoslovak champion in 1974 and 1975
• Czechoslovak Cup Winners 1974
• Slovakian Cup Winners 1974 and 1976

Individual:

• Czechoslovak Footballer of the Year 1974

Coaching career

Following his playing career Pivarnik was an assistant coach at Austria Wien and Sporting Lisbon.

As a coach Ján Pivarnik worked mainly in the Middle East, as in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman and the United Arab Emirates. In 2008 he was coach at Al Fahaheel Kuwait in the Kuwaiti Division One.

Achievements

• Emir Cup winner in 1986 with Al Fahaheel
• Saudi Crown Prince Cup winner in 1994 with Al Quadisiya
• Winner of the Asia Cup Winners' Cup in 1994 with Al Quadisiya
• Kuwaiti champion in 1998 with Al Salmiya
• Alkurafi Cup winner in 1999 with Al Arabi
• Emir Cup winner in 1999 with Al Arabi
• Crown Cup winner in 1999 with Al Arabi
• Alkurafi Cup winner in 2001 with Al Arabi
• Crown Cup winner in 2003 with Al Kuwait Kaifan

External links and sources

• Official website in English
• Articles in the eastern Slovak daily newspaper Korzár of 25 August 2006 Slovak

• National football team (Czechoslovakia)
• Czechoslovak
• Football coach (Slovakia )
• European Soccer Championships
• Born in 1947
• Man