Petr Vrabec (born 5 June 1962) is a Czech

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manager and former player. He won six

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titles with Sparta Prague at club level. Vrabec also represented

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, playing three times and scoring once in 1993.

Playing career

Club career

As a player, Vrabec won six league titles in eight seasons with Sparta Prague, racking up 168 appearances and 21 goals between 1985 and 1993. During the

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he scored three goals for the club, including one at the Nou Camp stadium against

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. In 1993, he went to Germany to play for Stuttgarter Kickers before returning to his homeland with

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in the 1994–95 season. Vrabec played in European competitions with Žižkov, scoring in the 4–3 aggregate win in the qualifying round of the

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against IFK Norrköping. He spent his later career with Chmel Blšany, where he suffered a broken leg, which limited him in his final season with the club. In 2000, he stopped playing in order to become youth coach at Blšany.

International career

Vrabec played for Czechoslovakia B in 1992, making a single appearance. The following year he made three appearances for

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, scoring one goal in the process. His only international goal came in a 5–2 win for Czechoslovakia against

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in qualification for the 1994 World Cup.

Managerial career

Vrabec became assistant manager under

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side 1. FC Synot in 2003 in a sixteen-month spell which ended in December 2004. In April 2005 Vrabec took up a position as Jarolím's assistant again, this time with Slavia Prague. Vrabec was named manager of

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side

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in the summer of 2012, but left his position after just seven games, with the club having won just one and drawn two in this time.

Honours

;Sparta Prague *

(6): 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1992–93

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vrabec, Petr 1962 births Living people Czech footballers Czechoslovak footballers Czechoslovakia international footballers Czech First League players AC Sparta Prague players Stuttgarter Kickers players FK Viktoria Žižkov players FK Chmel Blšany players Czech football managers FK Čáslav managers Czech expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Germany Association football defenders SK Slavia Prague non-playing staff Association football coaches Czech National Football League managers