Jiří Rubáš

Jiří Rubáš (5 February 1922 – 16 May 2005) was a Czech football manager and former player.

Jiří Rubáš

Personal information
Date of birth	(1922-02-05)5 February 1922
Place of birth	Rokycany, Czechoslovakia
Date of death	16 May 2005(2005-05-16) (aged 83)
Place of death	Prague, Czech Republic
Position(s)	Defender/Midfielder
Youth career
	SK Rokycany
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Bohemians Prague
	Viktoria Žižkov
	SK Hradec Králové
International career
1949–1952	Czechoslovakia	6	(0)
Managerial career
1954–1969	Bohemians Prague
1969–1970	Baník Ostrava
1970–1975	Škoda Plzeň
1976–1977	Baník Ostrava
1978–1981	Sparta Prague
1986–1987	FK Teplice
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

As a player, Rubáš played mostly for Bohemians Prague. He also played for the Czechoslovakia national team, for which he appeared in six matches between 1949 and 1952.

In 1954 he ended his active career and immediately began working as a football manager at Bohemians Prague. He coached them for 14 years before moving to Baník Ostrava. Rubáš coached several top Czech clubs, including Baník Ostrava, Škoda Plzeň and Sparta Prague. Rubáš was appointed as a new manager of Baník in the half of the 1975–1976 season and led Baník to the surprising title of Czechoslovak champions, for the first time in club's history.

References

• (in Czech) Profile at the ČMFS website
• (in Czech) Největší osobnosti FC Viktoria Plzeň at the Viktoria Plzeň website
• (in Czech) Trenéři v celé historii Sparty at the Sparta Prague website
• (in Czech) Zemřel bývalý hráč a trenér Jiří Rubáš at the Bohemians 1905 website