Josef Csaplár (born 29 October 1962) is a Czech football

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and former player. He was most recently the head coach of

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Playing career

Born in

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, Csaplár began playing football at the age of 12 at Spartak Příbram. 1979 he moved to UD Příbram, where he jumped into the first team managed. In the 1985/86 season he played for Sklo Union Teplice, from 1986 to 1987, he completed his military service in

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and VTJ Karlovy Vary. Then he played again for Teplice before it in the 1988/89 season for the

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auflief. From 1992 to 1996 he ended his career at lower-league club TSV Waldkirchen.

Post-playing Career

While he still played Csaplár already worked as a youth coach at UD Příbram. In 1996, he took over the B-team. In 1998, he was head coach of first division team, after only six points from twelve games in November 1998 dismissed. Then he worked as an assistant coach in Pribram. In 2001, he and

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trainer at

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, the Trainer duo (Csaplár was only officially co-coach) won with the team the Czech championship. In the 2003–04 winter break, he moved from Slovan Liberec coach on the chair from

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, the team fell from the third to fourth place. In April 2005 ended prematurely Slavia cooperation with Csaplár, as the team only on a disappointing fourth place was. For the 2005/06 season Csaplár signed a two-year contract with

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, but after only three months in office dismissed. At the end of 2005 he took over the Polish Erstligist

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, with whom he discussed the 2006 Polish Cup won. In 2008 Csaplár worked with

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as a scout. In September 2008 he became the manager of Czech first division side

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, replacing

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, but in November he was sacked after just 55 days in the job, with the club at the bottom of the league table. In 2011, he was head coach of the Czech Republic U17 team, which qualified for the

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for the first time in its history. In December 2014, after six years, Csaplár returned to Czech first division scene, when he was together with Jiří Kotrba appointed as a coach of Slovan Liberec. After only three games, in which the club lost three times with a total score of 2–8, were both coaches dismissed from their positions. Besides coaching career Csaplár works as a television commentator and expert. He has popularized terms such as " Csaplár's trap", "festival of easy losses" or "heavy poor quality" in the Czech football community.

Honours

Managerial

Slovan Liberec *

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: 2001–02 Wisła Płock *

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: 2005–06 *

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: 2006 1.FK Příbram *

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runner-up: 2017–18

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Csaplar, Josef 1962 births Living people Czech people of Hungarian descent People from Ostrov (Karlovy Vary District) Czechoslovak footballers Czech footballers Association football midfielders FK Teplice players 1. FK Příbram players Czech expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Germany Czech expatriate sportspeople in Germany Czechoslovak football managers Czech football managers 1. FK Příbram managers FC Slovan Liberec managers SK Slavia Prague managers Panionios F.C. managers Wisła Płock managers FK Viktoria Žižkov managers FC Fastav Zlín managers Czech First League managers Czech expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Greece Czech expatriate sportspeople in Greece Expatriate football managers in Poland Czech expatriate sportspeople in Poland Sportspeople from the Karlovy Vary Region