Jozef Adamec (26 February 1942 – 24 December 2018) was a Slovak football forward and manager.

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Jozef Adamec

Adamec in 1969
Personal information
Date of birth	(1942-02-26)26 February 1942
Place of birth	Vrbové, Slovakia
Date of death	24 December 2018(2018-12-24) (aged 76)
Place of death	Trnava, Slovakia
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	TJ Iskra Vrbové
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1959–1961	Spartak Trnava	61	(19)
1961–1963	Dukla Prague	34	(17)
1963–1966	Slovan Bratislava	26	(15)
1966–1977	Spartak Trnava	264	(119)
1977–1980	SK Slovan Wien
International career
1960–1974	Czechoslovakia	44	(14)
Managerial career
1976–1977	Spartak Trnava (assistant)
1977–1980	SK Slovan Wien
1980–1981	Slovan Duslo Šaľa
1981–1987	Dukla Banská Bystrica
1987–1988	Vorwärts Steyr
1989–1991	Inter Bratislava
1991	Dukla Banská Bystrica
1992	Bohemians Prague
1992–1993	Inter Bratislava
1993	Czechoslovakia (assistant)
1994–1995	Zlín
1995	Inter Bratislava
1996–1997	Dunajská Streda
1998–1999	Prešov
1999–2001	Slovakia
2002–2003	Spartak Trnava
2003–2004	Slovan Bratislava
2005–2006	Spartak Trnava
2006	Petržalka
2006	Spartak Trnava
2008	Spartak Trnava
Medal record Men's football Representing  Czechoslovakia FIFA World Cup Runner-up 1962 Chile
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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Adamec won seven Czechoslovak First League titles in his club career, winning two with Dukla Prague during his military service, followed by five more while playing for Spartak Trnava.^[1] Other clubs he played for were Slovan Bratislava and lower-division Austrian club Slovan Wien, where he took on a player-manager role.^[2]

As a football manager, Adamec took charge of clubs in Czechoslovakia and later Slovakia. Between 1999 and 2001 he led the Slovakia national football team.

In the Czechoslovak First League he played 383 matches and with 170 goals is 10th in the Czechoslovak All-Time Topscorers Table. He was capped 44 times for Czechoslovakia, scoring 14 goals. He was a participant at the 1962 FIFA World Cup and 1970 FIFA World Cup.^{[citation needed]}

His most memorable performance was his hat-trick against Brazil in match Czechoslovakia - Brazil 3:2 (1:1) played at 23 June 1968 in Bratislava.^[3] He was often incorrectly referred to as the first player ever to score a hat-trick against Brazil (Pole Ernst Wilimowski had scored four goals in the 1938 World Cup match).^{[citation needed]}

After retiring as player, Adamec began with football coaching as an assistant in Spartak Trnava. Later he coached Dukla Banská Bystrica, Tatran Prešov, Spartak Trnava and Slovan Bratislava. Between 1988 and 1991, he was the manager of Inter Bratislava, winning the Slovak Cup with the club in the 1989–90 season.^[4] He was assistant to Czechoslovakia coach Václav Ježek in 1993.^[2] From 1999 to 2001 Adamec coached the Slovakia national football team. Adamec died in 2018 at the age of 76.^[2]