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Otto Novák

Czech soccer player (1902-1984)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ12043315 ↗
Source-derived summary

Otto Novák (22 March 1902 – 15 October 1984) was a Czech footballer who played as a forward. He competed for Czechoslovakia in the men's tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

At club level, he played for FK Viktoria Žižkov in the Czechoslovak First League between 1925 and 1931, scoring 49 goals in 60 matches. He won the 1927–28 Czechoslovak First League with the club.

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“Otto Novák” enters the record as czech soccer player (1902-1984). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Otto, Novák and Czech can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1902, 1984, 1924, 1925—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1902-03-22. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Otto, Novák and Czech.
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Why this record matters

“Otto Novák” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Otto, Novák and Czech 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 Jun 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12043315. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1902, 1984, 1924 and 1925.

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This entry incorporates text from “Otto Novák” 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.