Jaroslav Borovička (26 January 1931 – 29 December 1992) was a former

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football player. During his club career he played for

Dukla Prague Dukla Prague ( cz, Dukla Praha) was a Czechoslovakia, Czech association football, football club from the city of Prague. Established in 1948 as ATK Praha, the club won a total of 11 Czechoslovak league titles and eight Czechoslovak Cups, and in ...

. He earned 21 caps for the

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, and was part of the second-placed team at the

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, and also played in the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He won the

Czechoslovak First League The Czechoslovak First League ( cs, 1. fotbalová liga, sk, 1. futbalová liga) was the premier football league in the Czechoslovakia from 1925 to 1993, with the exception of World War II. Czechoslovakia was occupied by German forces who forme ...

with Dukla six times, and the

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in 1961.

References

1931 births 1992 deaths Czech men's footballers Czechoslovak men's footballers Czechoslovakia men's international footballers 1958 FIFA World Cup players 1962 FIFA World Cup players AC Sparta Prague players Dukla Prague footballers MFK Vítkovice players Footballers from Prague Men's association football forwards {{Czechoslovakia-footy-bio-stub