SOCCER PLAYER

Jiří Pešek

1927 - 2011

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Jiří Pešek (4 June 1927 in Prague – 20 May 2011) was a Czech football player and professional coach. Pešek played for several clubs, including Bohemians Praha (1939–1951), Sparta Prague (1952–1955) and SK Slavia Praha (1956–1959). He played for Czechoslovakia national team (11 matches and one goal), and was a participant at the 1954 FIFA World Cup, where he played in a match against Uruguay. He coached Viktoria Žižkov, Baník Příbram, Sparta Chicago, Panserraikos, Finland, Valur, North Yemen and India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jiří Pešek has received more than 25,856 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jiří Pešek is the 5,108th most popular soccer player, the 776th most popular biography from Czechia and the 95th most popular Czech Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Jiří Pešek ranks 5,108 out of 21,273Before him are Ruggiero Rizzitelli, Nacho Monreal, Geoffrey Kondogbia, Stan Valckx, Antonio Arias, and Nikolai Tishchenko. After him are Zisis Vryzas, Raad Hammoudi, Takuya Takagi, Alexi Lalas, Jan Urban, and Francisco Uría.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Jiří Pešek ranks 427Before him are John Rhodes, Elio Morille, Anjali Devi, Howard Zieff, Peter Matthiessen, and Egon Günther. After him are Ernesto Formenti, George Hunter, Mose Allison, Giorgio Capitani, Kamini Kaushal, and Jean-Jacques Guissart. Among people deceased in 2011, Jiří Pešek ranks 419Before him are Vittorio Arrigoni, Taiji, Ignacio Flores, Betty Garrett, Günther Bechem, and Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola. After him are Rob Schroeder, Sam Rivers, Flemming Jørgensen, Salmaan Taseer, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, and Peter Schamoni.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jiří Pešek ranks 776 out of 1,200Before him are Bohuslav Karlík (1908), Jan Klapáč (1941), Berthold Englisch (1851), Přemysl Bičovský (1950), Vladimír Růžička (1963), and Karel Senecký (1919). After him are Vlastimil Lada-Sázavský (1886), Jiří Drahoš (1949), Marie Pujmanová (1893), Bohumil Modrý (1916), Jan Palouš (1888), and Josef Augusta (1946).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Czechia

Among soccer players born in Czechia, Jiří Pešek ranks 95Before him are Jan Berger (1955), Luboš Kubík (1964), Jan Lála (1938), Petr Kouba (1969), Přemysl Bičovský (1950), and Karel Senecký (1919). After him are Oldřich Rott (1951), Libor Radimec (1950), Michal Kadlec (1984), David Rozehnal (1980), Jaroslav Netolička (1954), and Jaromír Blažek (1972).