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Marcel Melecký

footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 6, 2024
Entity authorityQ6756171
Source-derived summary

Marcel Melecký (born 17 December 1975) is a Czech former football player and current manager.

Club career

He played top-flight football for the first time with FC Baník Ostrava in the 1995–96 season. He went on to play football with Bohemians in the Czech First League for four more seasons, where he made 84 appearances and scored six goals. He also spent six seasons playing in the Czech 2. Liga for Frýdek-Místek, Bohemians, Kladno and Hlučín.

In November 2001 Melecký scored the goal which ended Petr Čech's record-breaking run of 903 minutes without conceding a goal.

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“Marcel Melecký” enters the record as footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Marcel, Melecký and footballer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1975, 1995, 2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-12-17. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Marcel, Melecký and footballer.
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“Marcel Melecký” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Marcel, Melecký and footballer provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 6, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6756171. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975, 1995 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from Marcel Melecký” 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.