Petr Kouba is a former Czech football

Football (soccer)

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 goalkeeper, and current Assistant Coach for the Czech Under-20 and Under-21 National Teams. He played for Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia national football team

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 and later the Czech Republic

Czech Republic national football team

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, for both he played total 46 matches between 1991 and 1998.

Kouba, whose father Pavel Kouba

Pavel Kouba

Pavel Kouba was a Czech football player.During his club career he played for Dukla Prague, where he won the Czechoslovak First League four times. He earned 3 caps for the Czechoslovakia national football team, and was part of the second-placed team at the 1962 FIFA World Cup...

 was also a successful goalkeeper, began his playing career with Bohemians

FC Bohemians Praha

Bohemians 1905 is a Prague-based football club with over a hundred years of history. It is one of the most popular clubs in the Czech Republic. Its most successful era came in the early 1980s when the club won the Czechoslovakian League Championship and advanced to the semifinals of the UEFA Cup...

 and Sparta Prague, where he scored one goal from penalty kick in national league match against SK České Budějovice in season 1994-95.

He was a participant in the 1996 UEFA European Championship, where the Czech Republic was runner-up.

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