Tomas Postulka

Career

Under Jozef Chovanec he was the #1 goalkeeper in the Czechoslovakian National Team. He began his career in 1982 coming to Sparta Prague and playing in all kind junior Czechoslovakian national teams (U-18, U-21,). In 1991 he spent one year in Costa Rica playing 2 league games for Carmelita(1st Costa Rican league).

After his comeback he spent some time in Dukla Prague and FK Drnovice (both 1st Czechoslovakian league).

From these times came his nickname the "penalties wizard" because of his stats - having saved every second penalty. Sparta Prague

FK Teplice

In 2001 the ambitious team FK Teplice offered Sparta a big transfer price and Postulka moved to North Bohemia.

Air Corps Sparta Prague

On 16 February 2007, he was transferred back to his mother club, Air Corps Sparta Prague.

Achievements

• He is one of the most successful Czechoslovakian goalkeepers - and together with Petr Čech and Jaromír Blažek the most seasoned Czechoslovakian goalkeeper in European Cups (Champions League and Union of European Football Associations Cup). In 1995 he moved to Hradec Kralove where he achieved his first bigger success winning the Czechoslovakian Cup. In 1997 Sparta Prague bought back their goalkeeper to win 5 championships in a row and to be the part of the most successful period in Sparta"s post-revolution history. Sparta played the Union of European Football Associations Champions League many times and the Union of European Football Associations Cup at the time and "Tomas" got his first invitation to the Czechoslovakian National Team. He played 7 matches of qualification (all wins) for the EURO 2000 tournament and won the Japan Kirin Cup with the prize for best goalkeeper. There he celebrated the win of the Czechoslovakian Cup and underdog victories in the Union of European Football Associations Cup. In 2005 he set up two season records by going up to 600 minutes without conceding a goal (it was a club record and 10th best time in league history) and the second record was the accomplishment of having 15 clean sheets.