Anton MALATINSKY ( 1.5.1920 )           Great technic, quick and sharp shooter, thinking strategist on the football
field - this way talk about him people in cities Bratislava and Trnava.
          Represented Czechoslovakia 10 times, participated in WC 1954 (Swit-
zerland).
          Knee injury (1956) forced him to quit professional football career. Since
then worked as a trainer. He was looking for a young talented players around the
city of Trnava. In 1963 started to build a famous team of Spartak Trnava, which
became in the year scope 1968 - 1973 Czechoslovak champion 5 times (1968,
69, 71, 72, 73).
          From his talented players, Jozef ADAMEC, Ladislav KUNA, Vladimir HA-
GARA, Dusan KABAT, Karol DOBIAS, Kamil MAJERNIK, Stanislav JARABEK,
Dusan VARADIN represented Czechoslovakia.
          Trained Spartak Trnava until 1976, after that became a trainer of FC den
Haag (Netherlands), and later trained SK Slovan Bratislava.
          In 1998 stadium of Spartak Trnava was named on his honor "stadium of
Anton MALATINSKY".   MALATINSKY Anton   MALATINSKY (bottom, first from the right) in Czechoslovak national team. [Switzerland - Czechoslovakia  1 : 1 (1 : 0), Basel, Switzerland, 1948]