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Jakub Straka

association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionFeb 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ26252971 ↗
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Jakub Straka (born 17 June 1997) is a Slovak football defender who currently plays for 3. liga club FK Humenné.

Straka first began playing for Zemplín Michalovce, Tatran Prešov and Lokomotiva Košice. From there, he would go on to play for clubs in the 3. Liga and would feature for the Slovakia national futsal team.

Club career

Early career

Straka is a native village of Soľ, which is where he started playing football. He then joined MFK Zemplín Michalovce. Despite being a defensive player, he scored 6 goals in the autumn part of this league season.

Tatran Prešov

Straka transferred to Prešov following a summer trial, signing a one-year contract with the team. He made his professional Fortuna Liga debut for 1.

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The public source identifies “Jakub Straka” as association football player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jakub, Straka and association.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997-06-17. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jakub, Straka and association providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q26252971. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jakub Straka” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.