Jiřà ZÃdek Sr.
Jiří Zídek ( born February 8, 1944 in Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ) is a former Czechoslovak basketball player. Zídek was in the second half of the 1960s as one of the greatest European basketball player and was next to referee Lubomir Kotleba nominated in 2008 as the only Czech and Slovak for the Euro League 's 50 Greatest Contributors. While he was once the finals in FIBA Europe Champions Cup reached with his club team Slavia Prague in 1966, he won with Slavia the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1969. With the Czechoslovak national team, he won at European basketball championships, a silver and a bronze medal and was a participant of the Olympic Games 1972 in Munich. His son Jiří Zídek Jr. has also been a successful basketball player who was active in the most highly endowed professional league NBA and was able to win the most important European club competition FIBA Europe League, in contrast to his father in 1999.
Career
Association with Slavia Prague
Zídek won with Slavia Prague in 1965 and 1966 their first two national championships and was able to break through the phalanx of Spartak Brno, which had won three titles before. In the first participation in the European Champions Cup Slavia drew two years after Spartak Brno one to the final of the competition, in which one but 1966 Simmenthal Milan was defeated by five points difference. Zídek was at 72:77 with 20 individual points " scorer " of his team. Slavia defended this year's national championship and was eliminated in the European Cup 1966/67, from the semi-final against defending champion Simmen valley of Milan to name it. In the Final Four tournament is secured third place in the " small final " against ASK Olimpija Ljubljana. After they lost the national championship back to Spartak Brno, you stepped in the following 1967/68 season to a year earlier in the newly created European Cup Winners' Cup and reached the final in Athens. Against host AEK Athens, which had defeated two years earlier in the national champion competition in the semifinals, they lost the final game before the valid today for European club competition record crowd of at least 53,000 spectators despite 31 points from Zídek with 82:89.
After Spartak Brno successfully defended his national title in 1968, Slavia met again at the second European competition and won a European Cup, this time as first and only Czech and Slovak men's team. In the final of the Cup Winners' Cup competition in 1968/69 they won in Vienna against BK FC Dinamo Tbilisi with 80:74. In addition, the national championship Spartak Brno you got back and won the next three championships in 1974 and the seventh championship for the club. In national champion Competition in 1970 and 1971 Slavia Prague failed twice in the semifinals at the Soviet representatives CSKA Moscow. In FIBA Europe Champions Cup 1971/72 one since his participation in European competitions did not reach the semi-finals for the first time the top four teams, as they failed in the group stage against Jugoplastika Split and Panathinaikos Athens. The next year they lost in the group stage of the best eight teams equal all three direct comparisons in his group. Having lost in the national championship title in 1973 Dukla Olomouc, it was not represented in European competitions in the 1973/74 season. The national title in 1974 you could get back again. In national champion Competition 1974/75, however, you had no chance in the group stage of the twelve best teams and won not a single direct comparison in his group, including the against the Austrian representative UBSC Vienna. Then there was for Slavia Prague and Zídek no title successes at national and international level. Later Zídek played one more season in Olomouc and higher for athletes age as player-coach for two seasons at Alku from Forssa in Finland.
National
After Zídek had not come in close medal with the Czechoslovak national team at the European Championship finals in 1963 and 1965, they won the silver medal at the European Championship finals in 1967. In the first round we had to admit defeat in seven games only once against host Finland. After the victory in the semifinals over Bulgaria you lost the final 77:89 with defending champions Soviet Union, who won the five sweeps before. At the next European Championship finals two years later they won all group matches, but met in the semis on the defending and eventual champions Soviet Union. After 69:83 defeat, it was enough for the victory in the " small final " with two points difference over Poland to win the bronze medal. After being in 1968 after defeats against Poland and Bulgaria failed to qualify for the Olympic basketball tournament at the pre-Olympic qualifying tournament in Europe, Zídek was represented for the first time with the national team at the FIBA World Championship in 1970 in a global finals. In the final round of the last seven teams they only managed two victories over vice world champion Brazil and the winless Uruguayan selection, which one reached the sixth place. In the following European Championship finals in 1971 in Germany you missed the medal round and could still secure the fifth place.
In the Olympic qualifiers in 1972, the participation now succeeded at the Olympic basketball tournament in Munich. In the competition itself up to fourth place in the group phase at the 1972 Olympics. After a defeat against the reigning world champion Yugoslavia and Brazil in the placement round they reached the eighth place in Zídeks only at the Olympics. In the European Championship finals in 1973 in Catalonia one came after only a preliminary round defeat against defending champions Soviet Union again in the medal round. After the defeat against world champions Yugoslavia in the semifinals they lost even the small final again against the Soviet Union, which had failed in the semi-final on hosts. In the 1974 World Cup you missed the final round of the last eight teams. In the placement round, they lost to the opener against Mexico. Despite the following four wins so it was enough only for tenth place in the finals. The following Zídek took no part in more finals.
Others
30 years after winning the European Cup Winners' Cup won Zídeks son of the same in the jersey of the Lithuanian club Zalgiris Kaunas with FIBA Europe League 1998/99 the highest at that time European club competition. The Zídeks are the only known father-son pair who could each win a European Cup competition.