Jan Macháček (born 15 February 1972 in Prague) is a former Czech rugby player. He is one of arguably the two most famous Czech rugby players, along with Martin Jágr. He played for Newport RFC and Pontypridd RFC in Wales, Sale Sharks in England, Clermont Auvergne in France as well as the Barbarians.

He is currently CEO and owner of Infonia s.r.o., a webdesign company.

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 International career
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Early life

He was born in Prague and started playing rugby on account of his father Dušan having played. The first team he played for was Czech outfit Slavia Prague.

International career

He played his final match on 16 December 2009 in a 17–5 win against Hong Kong in Prague, aged 37 years old.

References

External links

• (in Czech) Jan Macháček on slavia.rugby.cz
• Jan Macháček on historyofnewport.co.uk
• Jan Macháček on ponty.net
• Jan Macháček on ercrugby.com