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Karel Černý (footballer)

Czech footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ2055239 ↗
Source-derived summary

Karel Černý (born 1 February 1910, date of death unknown) was a Czech football defender who was a member of the Czechoslovakia national team at the 1938 FIFA World Cup. However, he never earned a cap for the national team. At club level, he played for various clubs, most notably SK Slavia Prague, where he won three consecutive league championships in the 1939–40, 1940–41 and 1941–42 seasons. He also made 11 appearances in the Mitropa Cup. Černý is deceased.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Karel Černý (footballer)” as czech footballer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1910, 1938, 1939, 1940—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Karel, Černý and footballer can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as czech footballer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Jun 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2055239. The first chronological checks are 1910, 1938, 1939 and 1940.

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This entry incorporates text from “Karel Černý (footballer)” 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.