Václav Mašek

Václav Mašek

Mašek in 2015
Personal information
Date of birth	(1941-03-21) 21 March 1941
Place of birth	Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
0000–1957	ABC Braník
1957–1958	Sparta Prague
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1958–1970	Sparta Prague
1970–1971	Dukla Prague	7	(1)
1971–1973	Sparta Prague
1974–1978	ABC Braník
International career
1960–1965	Czechoslovakia	16	(5)
Medal record Men's football Representing Czechoslovakia FIFA World Cup Runner-up 1962 Chile
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Václav Mašek (born 21 March 1941) is a Czech football player who played as a striker. He was a member of the Czechoslovakia national football team, for which he played 16 matches and scored 5 goals.

In Czechoslovakia, he played 313 league matches and scored 127 goals for Sparta Prague.

He was a participant in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, where his country were runners up, losing to Brazil in the final. In a match against Mexico, he became famous for scoring a goal after only 16 seconds of play, the fastest goal in World Cup history until forty years later, when his record was beaten by Hakan Şükür of Turkey, by scoring after 11 seconds in the 3rd place match of the 2002 FIFA World Cup.