SOCCER PLAYER

František Šafránek

1931 - 1987

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František Šafránek (2 January 1931 – 27 June 1987) was a Czech football player. Šafránek played for several clubs, including Spartak Sokolovo (1949–1952) and Dukla Prague (1952–1966). He played for Czechoslovakia national team (22 matches and one goal), and was a participant at the 1954 FIFA World Cup, where he played in two matches, at the 1958 FIFA World Cup, and at the 1960 UEFA European Football Championship. He died from heart failure during the match of former Dukla Prague players in June 1987. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of František Šafránek has received more than 14,823 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). František Šafránek is the 2,857th most popular soccer player (down from 2,352nd in 2019), the 608th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 553rd in 2019) and the 50th most popular Czech Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, František Šafránek ranks 2,857 out of 21,273Before him are Stefan Savić, Heitor Canalli, Lorik Cana, Thomas Meunier, Luigi Cevenini, and Antonio Urdinarán. After him are Manuel Anatol, Béla Kárpáti, Ernst Andersson, Lucho González, Paolo Pulici, and Jozef Čapkovič.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, František Šafránek ranks 380Before him are Ernst Degner, Nick Adams, Shirley Verrett, Dimitar Dobrev, Konrad Stäheli, and Mino De Rossi. After him are Paolo Portoghesi, Suchitra Sen, Ichikawa Raizō VIII, Frédérick Tristan, Hans van Mierlo, and Nicola Mancino. Among people deceased in 1987, František Šafránek ranks 183Before him are Franjo Wölfl, Igor Ilyinsky, Galo Plaza, Gerald Moore, Alphonse Alley, and Arne Borg. After him are C. L. Moore, Elizabeth Hartman, Arturo Torres Carrasco, John Hammond, Hans Gál, and Henk Badings.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, František Šafránek ranks 608 out of 1,200Before him are Karel Sabina (1813), Emil Holub (1847), Emil Filla (1882), Yehuda Bauer (1926), Roman Čechmánek (1971), and Miroslav Filip (1928). After him are Július Bielik (1962), František Drtikol (1883), Václav Mašek (1941), František Halas (1901), František Čapek (1914), and František Šterc (1912).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Czechia

Among soccer players born in Czechia, František Šafránek ranks 50Before him are Ehrenfried Patzel (1914), Erich Srbek (1908), Antonín Vodička (1907), Adolf Šimperský (1909), Jaroslav Bouček (1912), and Karel Kolský (1914). After him are Július Bielik (1962), Václav Mašek (1941), František Šterc (1912), Tomáš Galásek (1973), Pavel Kuka (1968), and Václav Hovorka (1931).