Jozef Jankech is a Slovak football coach. He was the second manager of the Slovak national team.
Jankech began with football in his native town à  aþa. He played for à  aþa from the age of ten, later he left to play for Uherské Hradià ¡tÃÂ, then played for TTS TrenÃÂÃÂn and he ended his career in Tà ½ Tà Âinec as 29 years old. The first club in which he started coaching was Tà ½ Tà Âinec. His playing career was not as successful as his coaching career.
Jankech was one of the few Slovak football globetrotters. He trained in foreign several exotic teams such as Kuala Lumpur, Qatar Sports Club or twice in national team of Maldives. Jankech starting his managerial career as ending player in Czech team Tà ½ Tà Âinec. Then followed stage in Koà ¡ice where he trained at first VSS Koà ¡ice and then LokomotÃÂva Koà ¡ice. In 1980 coming the first foreign job in Cyprian team Nea Salamina Larnaka. Jankech also trained Czechoslovakia olympic team. Meanwhile, he was coach in TTS TrenÃÂÃÂn.
On 4 July 1995 he became the second Slovak football trainer after Jozef Vengloà ¡. Jankech completed two qualification cycles, first for Euro 96 and second for the 1998 World Cup. He achieved several very good results against strong opponents such as victories over Czech Republic, Poland and Croatia at the friendly match and draws against France and Yugoslavia. He failed to progress at the championship.
Jankech won SAFF Championship in 2008 with Maldives. It was the best success of Maldivian national team in history.
In December 2008 Jankech moved to Dukla Banská Bystrica.
He was also a part in a Czech online football manager BREJK, where he was a pro bono 100% (best in game) couch for 15 days for a winner of brejktip, quiz in that manager. He was there nicknamed as Jozef Hlavatý. picture from game
LokomotÃÂva Koà ¡ice
Slovan Bratislava
Maldives