Alexander Vencel (born 8 February 1944) is a Slovak former professional football

goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...

. He played 25 matches for

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

. He was a participant in the 1970 FIFA World Cup,Alexander Vencel Statistics
FIFA. Retrieved 3 February 2010. and in the 1976 UEFA European Championship, where Czechoslovakia won the gold medal. He played mostly for Slovan Bratislava. His son, Alexander Vencel Jr., also a goalkeeper, won a number of caps for

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

in the mid-1990s.

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