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Pavel Kuka
1968Jul, 19

Pavel Kuka

Pavel Kuka, Czech footballer and manager
Pavel Kuka (born 19 July 1968) is a Czech former professional football forward.

Born in Prague, Kuka started and finished his career at Slavia Praha, playing with the club from 1989–93 and then from 2000–05. He has also played for 1. FC Kaiserslautern (1994–98), 1. FC Nürnberg (1998–99), and VfB Stuttgart (1999–2000). For the Czech national team, Kuka played 63 times, scoring 22 goals and was part of the runner-up squad at Euro 96 and also took part at Euro 2000. Kuka also played 24 times, scoring seven goals, for Czechoslovakia. After his retirement in May 2005 he briefly worked as a manager in FK Marila Příbram (another Gambrinus league team) and then became football agent. In 2008, he was a sports executive at FK Viktoria Žižkov.

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Events on 1968

  • 30Jan

    Tet Offensive

    Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
  • 31Jan

    Tet Offensive

    Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
  • 29Apr

    Counterculture of the 1960s

    The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
  • 14Oct

    U.S. Marine Corps

    Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there.
  • 20Oct

    Jacqueline Kennedy

    Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.