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Petr Rada
Personal information
Date of birth	21 August 1958 (age 66)
Place of birth	Prague, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Dukla Prague (manager)
Youth career
?–1973	FSC Libuš
1973–1977	Dukla Prague
1977–1979	VTJ Čáslav
Senior career*
Years	Team
1979–1988	Dukla Prague
1988–1990	Fortuna Düsseldorf
1990–1991	Rot-Weiss Essen
1991	Dukla Prague
1991–1992	Toronto Blizzard
1992	SSV Jahn Regensburg
1992–1993	FK Chmel Blšany
1993–1995	Fortuna Düsseldorf
1995–1996	FC Bohemians Prague
Total
International career
1982–1986	Czechoslovakia
Managerial career
1998	Slavia Prague
2000–2001	Teplice
2001–2002	Viktoria Plzeň
2003–2007	Jablonec
2007–2008	Teplice
2008–2009	Czech Republic
2010–2011	Slovan Liberec
2011–2012	Teplice
2012–2013	Slavia Prague
2013–2014	Vysočina Jihlava
2015	Teplice
2016–2017	Příbram
2017	Sparta Prague
2017–2022	Jablonec
2022–	Dukla Prague
	*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 eight various Czech clubs: FK Teplice (on four separate occasions), FC Viktoria Plzeň, FK Jablonec, FC Slovan Liberec, SK Slavia Prague, FC Vysočina Jihlava, Příbram^[1] and Sparta Prague.

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.^[2] Rada also made eleven appearances for his national team, Czechoslovakia.^[3]

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.^[4]

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.^[5]

He returned to coaching on 26 October 2010 as the new coach of FC Slovan Liberec.^[6] In June 2011, it was announced he was returning to coach FK Teplice for his third spell.^[7]

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.^[8]

Controversy

On 21 March 2024, Rada was banned by Disciplinary commission FAČR for eight months and fined 80,000 Czech crowns for shouting racist insult to Zbrojovka Brno manager Tomáš Polách in a second league 3–3 home draw. Rada stated that he shouted only "ty zoufalej cikáne" ("you desperate gypsy"), will appeal along with Dukla Prague and rejected the racist undertones of his words.^[9] On 22 April 2024, Appeals Committee upheld the previous verdict, but reduced ban to three months.^[10]

Personal life

Rada is the father of goalkeeper Filip Rada.^[11]

Honours

Managerial

FK Jablonec

Czech Cup runner-up: 2017–18

Managerial statistics

As of 27 February 2021

Team	From	To	Record
Team	From	To	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Jablonec	21 October 2003	1 June 2007	122	47	35	40	140	127	+13	038.52
Teplice	1 June 2007	17 July 2008	32	17	5	10	45	29	+16	053.13
Czech Republic	17 July 2008	8 April 2009	8	2	4	2	8	6	+2	025.00
Liberec	26 October 2010	1 July 2011	17	9	3	5	29	16	+13	052.94
Teplice	1 July 2011	1 June 2012	37	16	12	9	48	35	+13	043.24
Slavia Prague	1 June 2012	30 April 2013	27	8	10	9	31	31	+0	029.63
Jihlava	26 November 2013	30 September 2014	27	9	5	13	35	40	−5	033.33
Teplice	17 February 2015	30 May 2015	18	6	5	7	23	24	−1	033.33
Příbram	22 August 2016	7 January 2017	12	2	3	7	12	22	−10	016.67
Sparta	13 March 2017	28 May 2017	10	5	4	1	14	9	+5	050.00
Jablonec	13 December 2017^[12]		122	60	23	39	192	142	+50	049.18
Career totals			432	181	109	142	531	454	+77	041.90