Jiřà Kotrba
Jiří Kotrba ( born February 28, 1958 in Pisek ) is a former Czech football player and current coach or - functionary.
Playing career
Kotrba played in his youth for ZVVZ Milevsko, at the age of 18 he moved to FC Bohemians Prague. In the season 1977/78 the defender made his debut in the first Czechoslovak league. In October 1981, he went for a year to Tábor, there to do his military service. However, he did not return to Prague but moved to Dynamo České Budějovice, where in 1988 he ended his career.
During his career, the defender completed a total of 85 games in the first Czechoslovak League, where he scored two goals.
Coaching career
Starting in 1983 supervised Kotrba still an active player various youth teams of his club Dynamo České Budějovice. In 1989 he took over as head coach of the first team and went with her in 1991 to the first league. After just one point from their first five games of the season, the club parted from him.
In the fall of 1991 Kotrba coach of relegation-threatened SKP Union Cheb, the league but no longer managed. Still, he remained in Cheb and rose with the team once again.
For the 1993/94 season moved to FK Jablonec Kotrba in the second league but already the middle of September he accepted the offer of Viktoria Zizkov.
Viktoria Zizkov With Kotrba won the Czech Cup and finished second in the league to eighth place. In the season 1994/95 he led the team to the winter break in second place, four start defeats at the start of the second half, however, led to his dismissal.
Kotrba returned in the summer of 1995 back to Jablonec and was responsible for ensuring that the next few years are among the most successful period of the club's history. The team was in 1995/96 and 1996/97 third in the Gambrinus League and won the 1997 /98 Czech Cup. After a weak start to the season 1998/99 came the separation.
Kotrba had only two months to wait for his next job and took over in November 1998 Dukla Pribram. In Pribram Kotrba remained nearly five years and reached the fourth place in 2001, the best finish in the history of the club. In the summer of 2001, he got an offer Sparta Prague, but refused. After the second round of the 2002/03 season he resigned for personal reasons.
In early November 2002 took over as coach Kotrba at Sigma Olomouc, but where he remained only until the winter break, in which he received an offer from Sparta Prague, which he took this time.
The league leaders Sparta Prague Kotrba led to the championship in 2002/ 03. The following season he reached with the team the last sixteen of the Champions League, in which Sparta with 0:0 and 1:4 failed at AC Milan. As end of March 2004 was foreseeable that Sparta would not be able to defend her title, Kotrba was replaced by František Straka.
During the winter break 2004/ 05 Kotrba coach was at the 1 FC Brno, but the results of the team could not improve. After nine games without a win earlier in the season 2005/ 06 Kotrba was dismissed. He then worked as head of the youth academy at his former club Dynamo České Budějovice.
In early 2007 Kotrba was called as a kind of savior to his relegation-threatened former club Marila Pribram, but he could not prevent the descent of the team. In the summer of 2007, he was sports director at Dynamo České Budějovice.
In the summer of 2008 Kotrba also took over as coach of the Czech Under-21 national team.
Achievements
- Czech Champion 2003 with Sparta Prague
- Czech Cup Winners' Cup in 1994 and 1998 with Viktoria Zizkov and FK Jablonec