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Former LASK trainer Frantisek Cipro died on Tuesday at the age of 75 after a long illness.
Cipro worked for LASK in the second division in 2001, but was replaced by his assistant coach Didi Mirnegg after a poor start to the season.
Before that, Cipro had coached FC Tirol Innsbruck from 1997 to 1999. However, Cipro celebrated its greatest successes in its home country. With Slavia Prague, for whom Cipro had also been active as a defender for nine years, he became champion in 1996 – it was Slavia’s first championship title since 1947 – a year later he won the cup and reached the 1999 UEFA Cup quarter-finals.
Curious: At the end of his coaching career, Cipro also looked after the Upper Austrian lower house club SV Freistadt twice. After the end of the second guest appearance in the Mühlviertel in 2009, he returned directly to Slavia Prague as a coach. Cipro’s opinion as a TV analyst was in demand until the very end, despite compulsory breaks on Czech television due to illness.
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