Dušan Galis (born 24 November 1949) is a Slovak politician, a former

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and a former manager of

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. In Czechoslovak league he played 226 matches, scoring 89 goals. He was capped 8 times for Czechoslovakia, scoring 1 goal. He was a participant at the 1976 European Football Championship where he became European Champion with his national team

Career

Football

He played for the youth team of Dolný Kubín. At age 20 he played for a 3rd Division team. His team was promoted in 1971 to Czechoslovak 2nd Division. Galis went, in 1972, to VSS Košice which was playing in the First League of Czechoslovakia and became top scorer in the season 1975–76 with 21 goals. In that season, he was called to the Czechoslovakian national football team. In the third of his eight national team games, he scored the only goal that he scored with them. He headed the winning goal in Czechoslovakia's 2–1 victory against

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for the 1976 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying and helped his team to qualify to the 1976 European Football Championship where he participated and Czechoslovakia became Champions of Europe. Galis was transferred to Slovan Bratislava in 1977 where he remained until 1981. Then he went to Spain and played for

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, but he went back to his country a year later and joined

Žilina Žilina (; hu, Zsolna, ; german: Sillein, or ; pl, Żylina , names in other languages) is a city in north-western Slovakia, around from the capital Bratislava, close to both the Czech and Polish borders. It is the fourth largest city of Sl ...

. In 1982–83 he played for club

KSC Hasselt Koninklijke Sporting Club Hasselt was a Belgian football club. The matricule No. 37 was erased in 2001 after the merge with K.S.K. Kermt to become Sporting Hasselt, K.S.K. Kermt-Hasselt. The club played one season in the Belgian First Division, ...

, and returned to Czechoslovakia for a year to play for ZŤS Petržalka before retiring.

Honours

Player

VSS Košice *

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: 1973 Czechoslovakia *

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: Winner

Manager

Slovan Bratislava *

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: Winner: 1991–92 *

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: Winner (3x): 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96 *

: Winner: 1993–94 *

Slovak Super Cup The Slovak Super Cup (''Slovenský Superpohár'' in Slovak), in the past named as ''Matičný pohár'' or ''Pribinov pohár'', was a football match between the champion of the Corgoň Liga and winner of the Slovak Cup. The cup was played annual ...

: Winner: 1994 Spartak Trnava *

: Winner: 1997–98 *

: Winner: 1998 Slovakia *

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: Play-off

Coach

He began his coaching career in 1990 as a trainer for Slovan Bratislava as a successor of Jozef Jankech, remaining until 1997. In 1992 his team broke the

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dominance in Czechoslovak football and won the Czechoslovak Championship. Also in the

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, Slovan won the championship in 1994, 1995 and 1996. In 1994 and 1997 the team won the

. Galis became coach of

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in 1997, winning the Slovak Cup his first season. At the beginning of 1999, he became trainer of Slovakia national team, without however coaching them in a game. He resigned after František Laurinec was elected president of

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. In the summer of 1999, he became coach of the Cypriot team

Omonia Nicosia Athletic Club Omonia Nicosia ( el, Αθλητικός Σύλλογος Oμόνοιας Λευκωσίας, ΑΣΟΛ; ''Athlitikos Sillogos Omonias Lefkosias'', ''ASOL''), commonly known as Omonia Nicosia, or simply Omonia (" Harmony"; also tran ...

, however in October 1999, he resigned after the team's poor performance. He managed

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from 2000 until 2002. On 23 November 2003, he became trainer of

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. Under his management, Slovakia placed second in the group for qualifications of World Cup 2006, eliminating

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, but did not qualify to the

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for first time after their elimination in the

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with 1–5 and 1–1. After mutual agreement with the head of

František Laurinec František Laurinec (born 19 August 1951, in Veľké Uherce) is a former president of Slovak Football Association (SFZ). Since 2009, he is a member of the UEFA Executive Committee. Biography He played football for Iskra Partizánske. Later he ...

, he resigned his position on 12 October 2006.

Politics

Since

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, he has been a Member of

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with the governing-coalition SMER-Social Democracy, a member of the

Bratislava Region The Bratislava Region ( sk, Bratislavský kraj, , german: Pressburger/Bratislavaer Landschaftsverband (until 1919), hu, Pozsonyi kerület) is one of the administrative regions of Slovakia. Its capital is Bratislava. The region was first esta ...

al VUC government and Government Commissioner for Youth and Sport.

References

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