Jozef Bouška (born 25 August 1945) is a former Czech

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and trainer. He competed in the men's tournament at the

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. His brother is the former football player and manager

Svatopluk Bouška Svatopluk Bouška (born 29 April 1947) is a former football player and manager. He had 164 appearances in the Czechoslovak First League and scored four goals. He represented his country at youth level. Moreover, Bouška became the third manager o ...

Career

Bouška played for Sparta Praha, TJ Spartak Brno ZJŠ, and

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. He played for

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during the

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. He played 111 games in the Czechoslovak league and scored 19 goals. He participated in 5 European Cup matches, once in the European Cup Winners' Cup (1974/75 with Slavia Prague) and four times in the Fairs Cup (1966/67: 2-0 with Spartak ZJŠ Brno, 1969/70: 2-0 for Sparta Prague). In 1980, he worked at Slavia Prague as assistant to

Bohumil Musil Bohumil Musil (10 May 1922 – 5 December 1999) was a Czech football player and later manager. As a player, Musil played for several Czechoslovak clubs, but never gained any success with them. He was far more successful as a football coach. Aft ...

, and a year later as head coach. He also trained at Zbrojovce Brno (in the spring of 1983 as an assistant coach in the 1st league, in the fall of the same year as a coach in the 2nd league). In the mid-1980s, he served as a coach in Costa Rica, first to Liga Deportiva Alajuelense, who under his leadership won the 1986 CONCACAF Champions' Cup, and later Deportivo Saprissa, who won the national championship in 1988 and 1989. In 1992 he coached Club Sport Herediano, followed by Limón in 1997.

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* * 1945 births Living people Czech men's footballers Czechoslovak men's footballers Czechoslovak First League players Olympic footballers for Czechoslovakia Footballers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Footballers from Trnava Men's association football midfielders Czech football managers Czechoslovak football managers AC Sparta Prague players FC Zbrojovka Brno players FC Sellier & Bellot Vlašim players SK Slavia Prague players SK Slavia Prague managers FC Zbrojovka Brno managers {{Czechoslovakia-footy-bio-stub