Zdeněk Nehoda

Zdeněk Nehoda

Zdeněk Nehoda in 2012
Personal information
Date of birth	(1952-05-09) 9 May 1952
Place of birth	Hulín, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
1962–1967	Spartak Hulín
1967–1969	TJ Gottwaldov
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1969–1971	TJ Gottwaldov	56	(21)
1971–1983	Dukla Prague	290	(124)
1983–1984	SV Darmstadt 98	32	(14)
1984	Standard Liège	3	(0)
1984–1986	FC Grenoble	60	(24)
1986–1989	SC Amaliendorf	55	(33)
Total		496	(216)
National team
1971–1987	Czechoslovakia	91	(31)
Honours Representing Czechoslovakia UEFA European Championship Winner 1976 Yugoslavia
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Zdeněk Nehoda (born 9 May 1952, in Hulín) is a former Czech football forward. At international level, he played for Czechoslovakia, making 91 appearances and scoring 31 goals, usually as a right-winger. He was a participant in the 1982 FIFA World Cup. He won a gold medal in the UEFA Euro 1976 and a bronze medal in the UEFA Euro 1980. He was known for his flamboyant dribbling skills, and stood out for his leadership qualities, he was a quick winger who beat the opponents very often, he is regarded as one of the best Czechoslovak football players of all time.

Club career

The former Czechoslovakia international started his career in Hulín. For the 1967/68 season, the striker was signed by TJ Gottwaldov, with whom he made his debut in the first division in 1969 at the age of 17. In 1971 he moved to Dukla Prague, where he stayed until 1983, winning three championships and winning the cup twice.

At the beginning of 1983 he went to the then second division club SV Darmstadt 98, for whom he scored 14 goals in 32 games until December 1983. He then moved to Belgium to Standard Liège, where he stayed for six months. He then played for FC Grenoble for two years. From 1986 to 1993 he was a player and later player-coach of the Austrian SC Amaliendorf.

Zdeněk Nehoda played 345 games in the Czechoslovak First League and scored 145 goals.

International career

He played 90 international matches for the Czechoslovak national team and scored the second most goals with 31 goals, making him the Czechoslovakian record national player. He became European football champions with Czechoslovakia in 1976 and came third at the European Championships in Italy in 1980. He took part in the 1982 World Cup, but was eliminated with Czechoslovakia after the preliminary round. In the qualifying games for the 1976 European Football Championship, he scored four goals in seven appearances and qualified with coach Václav Ježek's national team as group winners ahead of England and Portugal for the European Championship finals from June 16th to 20th, 1976 in Yugoslavia. In the qualifying games for the 1980 European Championship in Italy, he scored two goals in three appearances for coach Jozef Vengloš's team.

Player agent

Even before Zdeněk Nehoda became an officially licensed player's agent, he worked as a manager at Dukla Prague in 1991, and from 1992 to 1994 he worked in the same position at Sparta Prague . In 1995 he was briefly a manager at Union Cheb.

Since 1995 he has been working as a player agent with his own company NEHODA-FOTBAL sro; the players he represents include, for example, Pavel Nedvěd and Tomáš Řepka.

Honours

Club

TJ Gottwaldov

• Czechoslovak Cup: 1969–70

Dukla Prague

• Czechoslovak First League: 1976–77, 1978–79, 1981–82
• Czechoslovak Cup: 1980–81, 1982–83

International

Czechoslovakia

• European Football Championship: 1976

Individual

• Czechoslovak Footballer of the Year: 1978, 1979
• UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament: 1976