Ladislav Novák (5 December 1931 – 21 March 2011) was a Czech football defender and later a football manager. He played 75 matches for

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...

, 71 of them as a team captain.iDNES.cz: Loučíme se s fotbalovým rytířem, řekl Hašek na pohřbu Ladislava Nováka
28 March 2011. He was a participant in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, where Czechoslovakia won the silver medal. He was also a participant in the

1954 FIFA World Cup The 1954 FIFA World Cup was the 5th edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football tournament for senior men's national teams of the nations affiliated to FIFA. It was held in Switzerland from 16 June ...

and 1958 FIFA World Cup. In his country Novák played mainly for

Dukla Prague Dukla Prague () was a Czech 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 the 1966–67 season, reached the semi-finals of the ...

and won 8 championship titles with them. After end of his playing career he worked as a football manager and coached Dukla Praha and briefly Czechoslovakia national team. He won the championship title with Dukla as a coach in 1982.

Honours

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runner-up:

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

;Individual * UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament: 1960

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Zemřel fotbalový rytíř, kapitán stříbrných "Chilanů“ Novák
at iDNES.cz, 21 March 2011. 1931 births 2011 deaths Czech men's footballers Czechoslovak men's footballers Czechoslovakia men's international footballers Men's association football defenders 1954 FIFA World Cup players 1958 FIFA World Cup players 1960 European Nations' Cup players 1962 FIFA World Cup players Dukla Prague footballers FK Jablonec players Czech football managers Czechoslovak football managers Czechoslovakia national football team managers Royal Antwerp F.C. managers Dukla Prague managers K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen managers K.S.K. Beveren managers Beerschot A.C. managers R.W.D. Molenbeek (1909) managers Czechoslovak expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Expatriate football managers in Belgium Sportspeople from Louny FK Jablonec managers Footballers from the Ústí nad Labem Region {{Czechoslovakia-footy-bio-stub