Antonín Fivébr

Antonín Fivébr

Personal information
Date of birth	22 November 1888
Place of birth	Prague, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	26 February 1973 (aged 84)
Place of death	Prague, Czechoslovakia
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1908–1914	Sparta Prague
1914–1918	Cesky Lev Plzen
1919–1920	Sparta Prague
1921–1922	Brescia
Teams managed
1921–1923	Brescia
1923–1928	Valencia
1928–1929	Real Oviedo
1929–1931	Valencia
1932–1933	Real Murcia
1934–1935	Valencia
1936	Spartak Moscow
1945-1947	Jednota Košice
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Antonín Fivébr (22 November 1888 – 26 February 1973) was a Czech footballer and manager of clubs such as Valencia, Spartak Moscow, and Brescia.

Career

In 1908, Fivébr joined Sparta Prague to play as a midfielder. Twelve years later in 1920, Fivébr left Sparta to join Brescia in Italy. At Brescia he became a player-manager.

Fivébr went to Spain in 1923 to become the manager of Valencia. He spent seven years as the Valencia coach in three different stints. At Valencia he won three regional championships and won promotion to La Liga in 1931. Other Spanish clubs Fivébr managed were Elche, Real Oviedo, Levante, and Real Murcia.

Fivébr moved to the Soviet Union in 1935. Shortly afterwards in 1936, Fivébr was named the first ever manager of the newly born Spartak Moscow. However he only lasted two months on the job and was looking for work elsewhere. Fivébr would go on to manage Dynamo Leningrad, Stalinets Moscow, and clubs in Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia.

In 1938, Fivébr returned to his native Czechoslovakia, where he managed Viktoria Žižkov, Jednota Košice,^[1] and finally Spartak Trnava.

Death

Fivébr died in his home city of Prague on 26 February 1973.

References

1. Jeřábek, Luboš (2007-01-01). Český a československý fotbal - lexikon osobností a klubů (in Czech). Grada Publishing a.s. ISBN 9788024716565.