Josef Košťálek

Josef Košťálek

Personal information
Date of birth	31 August 1909
Place of birth	Kročehlavy, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	21 November 1971 (aged 62)
Place of death	Czechoslovakia
Playing position	Midfielder
Youth career
-1929	SK Kročehlavy
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1929-1945	Sparta Prague
1945-1946	Sparta Považská Bystrica
1946-1951	SK Rakovník
National team
1930-1939	Czechoslovakia	43	(2)
Teams managed
1957-1958	Baník Kladno
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Josef Košťálek (31 August 1909 in Kladno — 21 November 1971) was a Czech footballer.

He played for Sparta Prague and the Czechoslovakia national football team, for whom he played 43 matches, scoring two goals, and appeared in the 1934 and 1938 World Cups. In 1938, he scored in extra time against the Netherlands to put Czechoslovakia into the quarterfinals.^[1]

References

1. Josef Košťálek international stats at the Football Association of the Czech Republic website (Czech)