Tomáš Skuhravý

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Tomáš Skuhravý
Skuhravý in September 2008
Personal information
Full name Tomáš Skuhravý
Date of birth (1965-09-07) 7 September 1965 (age 58)
Place of birth Český Brod, Czechoslovakia
Height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s)
Striker
Youth career
1971–1980 Sokol Přerov nad Labem
1980–1982
Sparta Prague
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1982–1984 Sparta Prague 29 (4)
1984–1986
RH Cheb
58 (17)
1986–1990 Sparta Prague 113 (55)
1990–1995
Genoa
164 (59)
1995–1996
Sporting CP
4 (0)
1996–1997 Viktoria Žižkov 0 (0)
Total 368 (135)
International career
1985–1993[1] Czechoslovakia 43 (14)
1994–1995[1] Czech Republic 6 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tomáš Skuhravý (born 7 September 1965) is a Czech former

striker. He is famous for scoring 5 goals for Czechoslovakia in 1990 FIFA World Cup
.

Club career

At club level, Skuhravý mostly played in the Italian

Sporting Clube de Portugal
, where he ended his playing career.

International career

At international level, Skuhravý played for Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic, playing a total of 49 international matches, scoring 17 goals. For Czechoslovakia he played 43 matches and scored 14 goals, while for the Czech Republic he played six matches, scoring three goals.[2] He was a participant in the 1990 FIFA World Cup, where he scored five goals to become the second highest scorer for the tournament. This included the opening goal against Team USA, and a hat-trick against Costa Rica, in which all goals were scored by headers, the first time in World Cup history.[3][4]

Post-playing career

In September 2018, Skuhravy was announced to have made a return into football as the new club manager of

Cuneo.[5]
He left Cuneo in June 2019 following the club's exclusion from the Italian football leagues due to financial problems.

Personal life

After retirement, Skuhravý moved back to Liguria; he currently lives in Celle Ligure, where he works as a restaurant owner and football pundit for a local TV channel.[6] His cousin Roman Skuhravý is a former football player and currently a football manager.

References

  1. ^ a b "Tomas Skuhravy - International Appearances". The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.
  2. ^ Tomáš Skuhravý at FAČR (in Czech)
  3. ^ FIFA Match Report: Czechoslovakia - Costa Rica
  4. ^ Dan Cancian (31 January 2020). "Tomáš Skuhravý". These Football Times. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  5. ^ "UFFICIALE: Cuneo, Borgo nuovo ds. Arriva anche l'ex Genoa Skuhravy" (in Italian). TuttoMercatoWeb. 17 September 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  6. ^ "Tomáš Skuhravý: una carriera tra fiumi di birra e truffe: dalle auto distrutte alla nuova vita" (in Italian). CalcioWeb. 2 May 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2022.

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