Name: Čestmír Vycpálek



Country: Czech Republic
Clubs: Juventus F.C. (1946-1947), U.S. Città di Palermo (1947-1951)
Position: *SS, AMF
Side: RF/BS
Age: 25-30 years (15/05/1921)

Height: * 171 cm (not found)
Weight: * 73 kg (not found)

Attack: 82
Defence: 40
Balance: 81
Stamina: 79
Top Speed: 75
Acceleration: 76
Response: 78
Agility: 77
Dribble Accuracy: 86
Dribble Speed: 75
Short Pass Accuracy: 87
Short Pass Speed: 80
Long Pass Accuracy: 86
Long Pass Speed: 77
Shot Accuracy: 80
Shot Power: 87
Shot Technique: 77
Free Kick Accuracy: 75
Curling: 71
Header: 78
Jump: 75
Technique: 89
Aggression: 80
Mentality: 81
Keeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 87

Injury Tolerance: B
Condition/Fitness: 7
Weak Foot Accuracy: 6
Weak Foot Frequency: 6
Consistency: 6
Growth Type: Standard Lasting


CARDS:
P03: Classic No.10
P20: Talisman
S02: Passer
S05: 1-touch Play

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Tactical Dribble - Playmaking - Passing - 1 touch Pass

Attack / Defence Awareness Card: Balanced


INFO:

Former Czech footballer. He mainly played as inside right, great leader and playmaker with superb technique, powerful shot, strong and tenacious character. Not blessed with great pace but had fantastic vision and always knew to choose the most optimal solution, great passer as well. Premsyl The father saw in him a great champion, and big fan of Slavia Prague, every week brought Čestmír stage "Spartan". Instead the mother Jarmila wanted the young man ended his studies. Čestmír has successfully passed the high school classes and those 17 years and Commercial Academy already has a diploma and pass the leaders Slavia Prague in the first team to play. In 1944, in the middle of World War II Čestmír is deported to the concentration camp of Dachau where he passed eight months in extreme conditions. He died on the morning of May 5, 2002, the same day in which Juventus won its 26th league title and - thirty years before - was dead, his son (born in Palermo) in the plane crash of Air France Flight 112. It was the maternal uncle of Zdenek Zeman and was informally dubbed the basket. He began to play with Slavia Prague. After the Second World War (during which he was interned in the concentration camp at Dachau), in 1945 impresses engineers Slavia Prague who want Representative in Bohemia. The secretary general of Juventus Artino was impressed by the pair of Slavia Prague Vycpálek-Korostelev. The duo accepted the offer of the Turin team both becoming the first foreign players of Juventus team in the postwar period. He debuted in the October 6, 1946 match against AC Milan thanks to Vycpálek Juventus comeback from 3-1 to 3-3 and the Czech player 3-2 will mark the network.m Vycpálek played in Turin only the 1946-1947 season, collecting 27 caps and 5 goals, then moved to Palermo, then in Serie B. With the club in Sicily, where he remained for five seasons, he sees the final consecration, centering promotion to Serie A as early as the first (1947-1948) and became captain of the team by so doing, became the first foreigner to have dressed in the captain's armband in an Italian league Serie A. It was also the first foreign player to score a hat-trick of Palermo in the Serie A match of 23 October 1949 in a 3-0 win over Roma. In the 1952-1953 season he moved to Parma, which ended his career as a footballer. At this stage, "Spartan" selection contains Bohemian Yugoslavia: Vycpálek makes a headed goal and the match ends 1-1. Vycpálek remain in the National for seven years. Vycpálek began his coaching career in 1958 in Palermo, the city where he later moved his family after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Red Army during the Prague Spring. He was discharged from the bench of Palermo May 15, 1960, just hours before the Inter-Palermo (3-3) by decision of the Secretary Toto Vilardo. In addition to Palermo, led other smaller teams, including Syracuse, Valdagno Bagheria and Juve. In 1970, after being released from Mazara, who played in Serie A, he returned to Juventus, thanks to his old friend Giampiero Boniperti, becoming youth coach. In 1971, after the sudden death of Armando Picchi, was appointed first team coach. At the head of the Turin team until 1974, he won two consecutive championships in Vycpálek 1971-1972 and 1972-1973 seasons. In 1974, Charles took his place and he left word in the technical staff of Juventus becoming an observer.