František Plánička
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 2 June 1904 | ||
| Place of birth | Prague, Austria-Hungary | ||
| Date of death | 20 July 1996 (aged 92) | ||
| Place of death | Prague, Czech Republic | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1923–1938 | SK Slavia Praha | 196 | (0) |
| National team | |||
| 1926–1938 | Czechoslovakia | 73 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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František Plánička (Czech pronunciation: [ˈfrancɪʃɛk ˈplaːɲɪtʃka]; 2 June 1904 – 20 July 1996) was a Czech football goalkeeper and one of the most honoured players in the history of Czechoslovakian football. He played all his career for Slavia Prague, during which time the club won the Czech league eight times and the Mitropa Cup once. He also became a member of the Czechoslovakia national team and later its captain during the World Cup finals of 1934 (where the Czech team finished second) and 1938.
Plánička was a courageous player, to the extent that in Czechoslovakia's 1938 World Cup match against Brazil, he remained on the field despite having suffered a serious injury. He was a goalkeeper of outstanding reflexes and shot-stopping abilities and was also characterized by his sportsmanship, never once being cautioned or sent off in his career. He was awarded the UNESCO International Fair Play Award in 1985
Regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers or his generation, and of all time, in 1999, the IFFHS elected him the best Czech goalkeeper – as well as the sixth best in Europe and the ninth best overall – of the twentieth century. In 2003, he was catalogued as the greatest goalkeeper of an era that included other notable keepers such as Ricardo Zamora and Gianpiero Combi.
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