Tomáš Skuhravý (born 7 September 1965) is a Czech former

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who played as a striker.He is famous for scoring 5 headed goals for Czechoslovakia in 1990 World Cup.

Club career

At club level, Skuhravý mostly played in the Italian

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in the early 1990s with

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, being signed from

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, forming a prolific partnership with Uruguayan Carlos Aguilera. Tall and powerful Skuhravy usually attained full shape and proficiency later in the season while the smaller and quicker Aguilera gave his best in the early matches; together they managed to give Genoa a solid attack all-year round. In the 1990–91 season, the two players scored 15 goals apiece, good for tied-third in the scorers' standings, leading Genoa to a fourth place in the final standings, arguably the best result in the club's modern history. The following year he helped his team reach the semi-finals in the

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, ultimately being eliminated by eventual champions

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. Skuhravý scored a total of 57 goals with Genoa, becoming the best club goalscorer in the Serie A for the ''rossoblu''. He left Genoa in 1995 to join

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, where he ended his playing career.

International career

At international level, Skuhravý played for

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and later the

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, playing a total of 49 international matches, scoring 17 goals. For Czechoslovakia he played 43 matches and scored 14 goals, while for the Czech Republic he played six matches, scoring three goals. He was a participant in the

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, where he scored five goals to become the second highest scorer for the tournament. This included a hat-trick against

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, in which all goals were scored by headers, the first time in World Cup history.

Post-playing career

In September 2018, Skuhravy was announced to have made a return into football as the new club manager of

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club

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. He left Cuneo in June 2019 following the club's exclusion from the Italian football leagues due to financial problems.

Personal life

After retirement, Skuhravý moved back to

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; he currently lives in Celle Ligure, where he works as a restaurant owner and football pundit for a local TV channel. His cousin

Roman Skuhravý Roman Skuhravý (born 6 January 1975) is a Czech football manager and former player. He played in the Czech First League as a defender for Jablonec, Baník Ostrava ''Baník'' is a Slovak word meaning "miner". Since the 1950s it has been part o ...

is a former football player and currently a football manager.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Skuhravy, Tomas 1965 births People from Kolín District Living people Czechoslovak footballers Czech footballers Czechoslovakia international footballers Czech Republic international footballers Dual internationalists (football) Serie A players Serie B players Genoa C.F.C. players Primeira Liga players Sporting CP footballers Czech expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Italy Expatriate footballers in Portugal 1990 FIFA World Cup players AC Sparta Prague players FK Hvězda Cheb players FK Viktoria Žižkov players Nightclub owners Czechoslovak expatriate footballers Czechoslovak expatriate sportspeople in Italy Czech expatriate sportspeople in Italy Czech expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Association football forwards Sportspeople from the Central Bohemian Region