Jozef Adamec

In the Czechoslovak First League he played 383 matches and with 170 goals is 10th in the Czechoslovak All-Time Topscorers Table.He was capped 44 times for Czechoslovakia, scoring 14 goals. He was a participant at the 1962 FIFA World Cup and 1970 FIFA World Cup.^{[citation needed]}

His most memorable performance was his hat-trick against Brazil in match Czechoslovakia - Brazil 3–2 (1–1) played on 23 June 1968 in Bratislava.^[3] He was often incorrectly referred to as the first player ever to score a hat-trick against Brazil (Pole Ernst Wilimowski had scored four goals in the 1938 World Cup match).^{[citation needed]}

After retiring as player, Adamec began with football coaching as an assistant in Spartak Trnava. Later he coached Dukla Banská Bystrica, Tatran Prešov, Spartak Trnava and Slovan Bratislava. Between 1988 and 1991, he was the manager of Inter Bratislava, winning the Slovak Cup with the club in the 1989–90 season.^[4] He was assistant to Czechoslovakia coach Václav Ježek in 1993.^[2] From 1999 to 2001 Adamec coached the Slovakia national team.

Adamec died in 2018 at the age of 76.^[2]

Dukla Prague

• Czechoslovak First League: 1961–62, 1962–63

Spartak Trnava

• Czechoslovak First League: 1967–68, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73
• Czechoslovak Cup: 1966–67, 1970–71, 1974–75
• Slovak Cup: 1970–71, 1974–75
• Mitropa Cup: 1966–67; runner-up: 1967–68

Czechoslovakia

• FIFA World Cup runner-up: 1962

Inter Bratislava

• Slovak Cup: 1989–90

• Jozef Adamec at FAČR (also at old FAČR website) (in Czech)
• Osobnosti.sk (in Slovak)
• Profile at Hall of Fame Dukla Praha website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-05-11) (in Czech)