Ondřej Kušnír

Ondřej Kušnír

Personal information
Date of birth	(1984-04-05) 5 April 1984 (age 40)
Place of birth	Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Right back
Youth career
1990–2002	TJ Vítkovice
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2002–2006	FC Vítkovice	60	(3)
2006–2008	Viktoria Žižkov	53	(8)
2008–2012	Sparta Prague	74	(5)
2012–2014	Slovan Liberec	34	(1)
2014	Tobol	16	(2)
2015	Sigma Olomouc	7	(1)
2015–2016	Rapid Bucharest	23	(1)
2016–2018	Dukla Prague	49	(5)
2018–2020	Fotbal Třinec	44	(5)
International career
2002	Czech Republic U19	1	(0)
2004	Czech Republic U21	1	(0)
2010–2011	Czech Republic	4	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ondřej Kušnír (born 5 April 1984) is a Czech former professional footballer who played for various clubs in the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan and Romania. He won the Czech title with Sparta Prague in 2009–10. Kušnír also played internationally, representing the Czech Republic four times.

Club career

He won the Czech title with Sparta Prague in 2009–10.

In February 2014, Kušnír signed a one-year contract with FC Tobol of the Kazakhstan Premier League.^[1] He returned to the Czech Republic, joining Sigma Olomouc in February 2015 on a contract until the end of the 2015–16 season.^[2] Kušnír was one of three Czechs, together with Jiří Jeslínek and Tomáš Josl, who joined Romanian Liga II side Rapid Bucharest in the summer of 2015.^[3]

Kušnír joined Dukla Prague on a free transfer shortly before the beginning of the 2016–17 season.^[4] After scoring 5 goals in 49 matches, he left Dukla at the end of the 2017–18 season.^[5] Having spent his last two seasons at Fotbal Třinec, Kušnír retired from his playing career at the end of the 2019–20 season.^[6]

International career

Kušnír played for the Czech Republic at youth level, playing for both the under-19 and under-21 national teams. After being called up to the national team at the end of 2009, but remaining an unused substitute, on 3 March 2010, Kušnír made his debut for the senior side of his country in the 0–1 loss against Scotland in a friendly match. He played in the 2011 Kirin Cup Soccer tournament, making the last of his four appearances for the Czech Republic in a 0–0 draw against Peru.

Personal life

His father was also a professional footballer playing for TJ Vítkovice. In the 1985–86 season he won the Czechoslovak First League with them.^[7]

Honours

Viktoria Žižkov

• Czech National Football League: 2006–07

Sparta Prague

• Czech First League: 2009–10

Sigma Olomouc

• Czech National Football League: 2014–15

Rapid București

• Liga II: 2015–16

References

1. Из Слована в Тобол. fc-tobol.kz (in Russian). FC Tobol. 1 February 2014. Archived from the original on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
2. "Kušnír bude na jaře hrát za Olomouc. Snad pomůžu k postupu, doufá". idnes.cz (in Czech). 12 February 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
3. "Česká trojka. Josl, Jeslínek a Kušnír budou hrát druhou rumunskou ligu". denik.cz (in Czech). 14 August 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
4. "Kapitán Baníku Holzer odchází do Sparty, Dukla hlásí dvě posily" (in Czech). tyden.cz. 27 July 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
5. "Bývalí reprezentanti Kušnír s Jiránkem končí v pražské Dukle" (in Czech). idnes.cz. 27 May 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
6. "Kušnír se loučí porážkou. Druhou ligu uzavřela výhra Vlašimi v Třinci". idnes.cz (in Czech). 17 July 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
7. Kušnír už odmala válčil s Baníkem, proti němuž hrával i jeho táta

External links

• Ondřej Kušnír at Fortunaliga.cz
• Ondřej Kušnír at FAČR (in Czech)
• Ondřej Kušnír – Czech First League statistics at Fotbal DNES (in Czech)
• Ondřej Kušnír at Soccerway
• Ondřej Kušnír at National-Football-Teams.com
• Ondřej Kušnír at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
• Guardian Football at the Wayback Machine (archived 14 September 2012)