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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: Chico Hamilton III on November 17, 2011, 03:45:40 PM

Title: 15 November 1990
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on November 17, 2011, 03:45:40 PM: 21 years ago - jesus....

CZECHOSLOVAK SWEEPER STAS SIGNS FOR ASTON VILLA - SOCCER.
15 November 1990
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OSTRAVA, Czechoslovakia, Nov 15, Reuters - Josef Venglos, Czechoslovak manager of English first division soccer club Aston Villa, did some poaching in his home land to sign Banik Ostrava sweeper Ivo Stas.

The deal, including a two-year contract, is worth 200,000 pounds sterling (390,000 dollars) and was settled at a meeting in Prague earlier this week between Banik officials and Villa chairman Doug Ellis, the Czechoslovak club said on Thursday.

Stas, 25, who is on the fringes of the national team, scored an own goal when Villa eliminated Banik from the UEFA Cup last month.

Stas, who joins fellow Czechoslovaks Ludek Miklosko (West Ham) and Jan Stejskal (Queen's Park Rangers) in the English league, has already left for England and could play in Villa's game at Norwich on Saturday.
Title: Re: 15 November 1990
Post by: usav on November 17, 2011, 04:28:13 PM: Quote
Stas, who joins fellow Czechoslovaks Ludek Miklosko (West Ham) and Jan Stejskal (Queen's Park Rangers) in the English league, has already left for England and could play in Villa's game at Norwich on Saturday.

..........or maybe not.
Title: Re: 15 November 1990
Post by: TheSandman on November 17, 2011, 04:36:44 PM: The day before I was born.
Title: Re: 15 November 1990
Post by: PeterWithesShin on November 17, 2011, 05:19:35 PM: Surely the only Villa player to score a Villa goal and yet never play for us.
Title: Re: 15 November 1990
Post by: hipkiss92 on November 17, 2011, 05:34:23 PM: As if he doesn't have a wikipedia page
Title: Re: 15 November 1990
Post by: LeeB on November 17, 2011, 05:43:57 PM: Shame, he looked a bloody good player as well.
Title: Re: 15 November 1990
Post by: TopDeck113 on November 17, 2011, 06:21:56 PM: An unbeatable goals to games ratio: Appearances 0, Goals 1.
Title: Re: 15 November 1990
Post by: CT on November 17, 2011, 09:04:51 PM: I saw him score for us in the flesh! (But never play for us of course)

You're right Chico - 21 years ago, sodding scary!
Title: Re: 15 November 1990
Post by: PeterWithesShin on November 17, 2011, 10:08:14 PM: Imagine how confusing this thread is for any young fans.
Title: Re: 15 November 1990
Post by: The Left Side on November 18, 2011, 01:00:37 AM: What a player he could have been, did he play again after he left us?
Title: Re: 15 November 1990
Post by: Damo70 on November 18, 2011, 11:32:26 AM: I saw him play and score for us in a pre season friendly at Witney Town in 1991. It was quite possibly his only appearance in a Villa shirt unless anyone saw him in a reserve game?
Title: Re: 15 November 1990
Post by: gervilla on November 18, 2011, 10:27:12 PM: Wow.
Ivo Stas is the first search I've ever made on Wikipedia that came back with nowt.
Title: Re: 15 November 1990
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on January 05, 2012, 11:00:24 PM: Always remember going to some away game or other later on that season or the next. Whoever the home side was had a 'roll call' of opposition players both past and present that season and their purchase prices and sale prices if they had subsequently left. Under Ivo Stas it just said 'Insurance Settlement'.