Career
After this success, he left Czechoslovakia and moved to the Netherlands. From 1969 to 1972, he coached ADO Den Haag, leading them to third place in the Dutch league, before taking over as head coach of Czechoslovakia"s national team He created a new team of talented players including Ivo Viktor, Alexander Vencel, Antonín Panenka, Ladislav Jurkemik, Zdeněk Nehoda, Anton Ondruš, Jaroslav Pollák and Ján Pivarník.
Ježek was replaced as head coach by his assistant Jozef Vengloš.
Ježek moved back to the Netherlands in 1978 as coach of Feyenoord. His best league finish with the Rotterdam club was second in 1979.
On leaving Feyenoord in 1982, Ježek was twice coach of Sparta Prague again in the next decade, and started a long period of success for the club, winning the Czechoslovakian title several times. In 1993, he became the provisional head coach of the joint Czechoslovakian-Slovak team, formed after the Czechoslovakian Republic and Slovakia split in November 1992, in the qualifiers for the 1994 World Cup.
He also coached Football Club Zürich.
Ježek died in Prague in 1995, at the age of 71.