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Josef Ludl

Czech footballer (1916-1998)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ718846 ↗
Source-derived summary

Josef Ludl (3 June 1916 – 1 August 1998) was a Czech footballer. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played sixteen matches and scored six goals.

Ludl was a participant in the 1938 FIFA World Cup. He played for FK Viktoria Žižkov and AC Sparta Prague at club level.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Josef Ludl” is czech footballer (1916-1998). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Josef, Ludl and Czech, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1916, 1998, 1938—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1916-06-03. For this dossier, Josef, Ludl and Czech is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “czech footballer (1916-1998)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q718846. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1916, 1998 and 1938.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Josef Ludl” 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.