Vladimír Pištělák (born 30 July 1940) is a Czech former

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player and

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. He was voted to the Czechoslovakian 20th Century Team in 2001.

Playing career

Club career

Pištělák won five Czechoslovakian League championships (1962, 1963, 1964, 1967, and 1968), and he was named the Czechoslovakian Player of the Year, in 1969. He was named to the FIBA European Selection Team in 1965 and 1968. He won the

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title in 1970.

National team career

With the senior Czechoslovakian national team, Pištělák competed in the men's tournament at the

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. With Czechoslovakia, he also won the silver medal at the 1967 EuroBasket, and the bronze medal at the 1969 EuroBasket.

Coaching career

After his playing career, Pištělák worked as a

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* 1940 births Living people Basketball players at the 1960 Summer Olympics Czech basketball coaches Czechoslovak basketball coaches Czech men's basketball players Czechoslovak men's basketball players Olympic basketball players for Czechoslovakia Sportspeople from Brno {{Czechoslovakia-sport-bio-stub