Zdeněk Kos
Zdeněk Kos is a Czech former basketball player and coach. He was voted to the List of [the best Czech basketball players of the 20th century|Czechoslovak 20th Century Team] in 2001. Kos was granted Austrian citizenship in 1996.
Playing career
Club career
During his club playing career, Kos won three Czechoslovak [Basketball League|Czechoslovak League] championships, in the years 1970, 1973, and 1975. He was also named the Czech [Basketball Player of the Year|Czechoslovak Player of the Year] four times, in the years 1974, 1975, 1977, and 1978. From 1982 to 1985, he played for BK Klosterneuburg in Austria, winning the national championship in each season. After returning to Olomouc in 1985, he went back to Austria in 1989, where he spent one season as player/coach at TS Innsbruck, before focussing on coaching.
With the senior Czechoslovak national team, Kos competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics, the 1976 Summer Olympics, and the 1980 Summer Olympics. With Czechoslovakia, he also won bronze medals at the 1977 EuroBasket, and the 1981 EuroBasket.
Coaching career
After his playing career, Kos worked as a basketball coach. He coached the Austrian men's national team from 1990 to 1993. Kos also worked as a coach in youth basketball in Klosterneuburg and Vienna for many years. From 2006 to 2008, Kos served as coach of the women's Flying Foxes Vienna, guiding the squad to Austrian championship titles in 2007 and 2008.
Personal life
His son Zdeněk Kos junior played basketball in the Austrian Bundesliga in the late 1990s and the first half of the 2000s.