Josef Kuchynka was a Czechoslovak

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

 football

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 manager and former player of German ethnicity.

A locksmith by profession, Kuchynka played as a footballer mostly for DFC Prague, a football team of ethnic Germans in Prague. In 1924 he appeared in one Czechoslovakia national team

Czechoslovakia national football team

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 match, playing against Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia national football team

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 in Zagreb

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. During World War II

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, Kuchynka coached Sparta Prague. After the war, he coached SK Slezská Ostrava

FC Baník Ostrava

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 from 1946 to 1948. After the communist takeover of power in February 1948, he was forbidden to work as a professional football manager and was supposed to work in a coal mine. He decided to leave Czechoslovakia and later worked in Poland

Poland

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, coaching Wisła Kraków in 1948-1950. He returned to Czechoslovakia in his retirement age.