Petr Rada

Petr Rada

Personal information
Date of birth	(1958-08-21) 21 August 1958
Place of birth	Prague, Czechoslovakia
Height
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
0000–1973	FSC Libuš
1973–1977	Dukla Prague
1977–1979	VTJ Čáslav
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1979–1988	Dukla Prague	16	(8)
1988–1990	Fortuna Düsseldorf	52	(3)
1990–1991	Rot-Weiss Essen	7	(1)
1991	Dukla Prague	12	(4)
1991–1992	Toronto Blizzard	87	(26)
1992	SSV Jahn Regensburg	9	(12)
1992–1993	FK Chmel Blšany	15	(2)
1993–1995	Fortuna Düsseldorf	30	(2)
1995–1996	FC Bohemians Prague	41	(19)
International career
1982–1986	Czechoslovakia	11	(2)
Managerial career
1998	Slavia Prague
2000–2001	FK Teplice
2001–2002	FC Viktoria Plzeň
2003–2007	FK Jablonec 97
2007–2008	FK Teplice
2008–2009	Czech Republic
2010–2011	FC Slovan Liberec
2011–2012	FK Teplice
2012–2013	Slavia Prague
2013–2014	FC Vysočina Jihlava
2015	FK Teplice
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Petr Rada (born 21 August 1958) is a Czech football coach and former player. He represented Czechoslovakia internationally in the 1980s and managed the Czech Republic national football team between 2008 and 2009. He is well known for his arguments with fans or trainer colleagues and also for impulsive style of coaching.

Before being named national team manager in July 2008, Rada worked as an assistant for then national team coach Karel Brückner from 2006 to 2008, and also as an assistant to Jozef Chovanec from 1998 to 2001 when Chovanec was manager of the Czech national team. Rada has also been head manager of six various Czech clubs: FK Teplice (on four separate occasions), FC Viktoria Plzeň, FK Baumit Jablonec, FC Slovan Liberec, SK Slavia Prague and FC Vysočina Jihlava.

Playing career

In his playing days, Rada was a defender, who starred for Dukla Prague for nine years, from 1979 to 1988. He won the Czechoslovak First League with them in 1979 and 1982. Rada also made eleven appearances for his national team, Czechoslovakia.

Management career

Rada joined Jablonec as manager in October 2003 and led the team to the final of the 2006–07 Czech Cup, where they lost against Sparta Prague. After nearly four years at the club, Rada decided to leave the club in 2007.

On 8 April 2009, he was sacked as coach of the Czech Republic national team after the team won just two of their six qualification matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

He returned to coaching on 26 October 2010 as the new coach of FC Slovan Liberec. In June 2011, it was announced he was returning to coach FK Teplice for his third spell.

Rada became manager of Slavia Prague in 2012. He left Slavia in April 2013 with the club in eighth place in the league, with five matches of the season remaining.

Personal life

Rada is the father of goalkeeper Filip Rada.

Managerial statistics

As of 1 June 2015

Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Jablonec	21 October 2003	1 June 2007	122	47	35	40	140	127	+13	38.52
Teplice	1 June 2007	17 July 2008	32	17	5	10	45	29	+16	53.13
Czech Republic	17 July 2008	8 April 2009	8	2	4	2	8	6	+2	25.00
Liberec	26 October 2010	1 July 2011	17	9	3	5	29	16	+13	52.94
Teplice	1 July 2011	1 June 2012	37	16	12	9	48	35	+13	43.24
Slavia Prague	1 June 2012	30 April 2013	27	8	10	9	31	31	+0	29.63
Jihlava	26 November 2013	30 September 2014	27	9	5	13	35	40	−5	33.33
Teplice	17 February 2015	30 May 2015	18	6	5	7	23	24	−1	33.33
Career totals			288	114	79	95	359	308	+51	39.58

External links

• Petr Rada at worldfootball.net
• Petr Rada profile at Fussballdaten