Ján Švehlík (born 17 January 1950) is a former Slovak

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player and later a football manager. He played for

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...

, for which he played 17 matches and scored 4 goals. He played mostly for

ŠK Slovan Bratislava ŠK Slovan Bratislava (, "Bratislava Slavs") is a professional association football, football club based in Bratislava, Slovakia, that plays in the Slovak First Football League. Founded as I. ČSŠK Bratislava in 1919, the club changed its name ...

International career

Švehlík made 17 appearances for the full

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. He was a participant at the

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, which Czechoslovakia won. He scored an important first goal in the final against

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References

1950 births Men's association football forwards Czechoslovak men's footballers Slovak men's footballers Slovak football managers ŠK Slovan Bratislava managers Living people UEFA Euro 1976 players UEFA European Championship–winning players Czechoslovakia men's international footballers Dukla Prague footballers ŠK Slovan Bratislava players Czechoslovak expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Czechoslovak expatriate sportspeople in Belgium People from Žiar nad Hronom District Footballers from the Banská Bystrica Region ŠK Slovan Bratislava non-playing staff {{Czechoslovakia-footy-bio-stub