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

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and a football coach. A member of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia, 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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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

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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 Hungarian 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 Francesco Calzona as the goalkeeper's coach, in place of his former national team partner Matúš Kozáčik. 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 men's footballers Slovak people of Hungarian descent Slovak expatriate men's footballers Men's 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 First Football League players Nemzeti Bajnokság I players People from Galanta District Footballers from the Trnava Region Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Expatriate men's footballers in Austria Expatriate men's footballers in Hungary Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Greece Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Austria Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Hungary UEFA Euro 2016 players Slovakia men's international footballers 21st-century Slovak sportsmen {{Slovakia-footy-goalkeeper-stub