Ján Novota ( hu, Novota János; born 29 November 1983) is a retired Slovak

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and a football coach. A member of the

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, Novota made his national team debut against Montenegro on 23 May 2014 (2–0 win), playing the second half of the friendly fixture.Slovensko vyhralo nad Čiernou Horou 2:0, Kozákovi chýbala atmosféra
SME.sk, retrieved 25. 5. 2014 Later he was fielded in 3 additional friendly games against

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, Georgia and

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, which was his last international cap on 15 November 2016. The only game he played for entire 90 minutes was against Iceland. Novota was forced to retire from professional football on 5 February 2018 after suffering from

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, which caused his aorta to reach some 1.3 times the normal. His last competitive game was for

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on 9 December 2017 in Round 19 of

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against Diósgyőri. In 2021, Slovak journalist of Hugnarian ethnicity Titanilla Bőd published a biography of Novota titled by his surname. In December 2022, he led a mid-season training camp in Senec for Slovak national team prospects under

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as the goalkeeper's coach, in place of his former national team partner

Matúš Kozáčik Matúš Kozáčik (; born 27 December 1983) is a Slovak retired football goalkeeper who last played for Czech club Viktoria Plzeň, and who now serves as a goalkeeping coach with the club's first team. Club career While Kozáčik was playing for ...

. In March 2023, ahead of the first two UEFA Euro 2024 qualifiers, it was announced that Novota will replace Kozáčik as the goalkeeping coach of the national team permanently.

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1983 births Living people Slovak footballers Slovak people of Hungarian descent Slovak expatriate footballers Association football goalkeepers FC Senec players FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda players SK Rapid Wien players Austrian Football Bundesliga players Panserraikos F.C. players Debreceni VSC players Slovak Super Liga players Nemzeti Bajnokság I players People from Galanta District Sportspeople from the Trnava Region Expatriate footballers in Greece Expatriate footballers in Austria Expatriate footballers in Hungary Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Greece Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Austria Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Hungary UEFA Euro 2016 players Slovakia international footballers {{Slovakia-footy-goalkeeper-stub