Ladislav Novák

Ladislav Novák (5 December 1931 – 21 March 2011) was a Czech football defender and later a football manager. He played 75 matches for Czechoslovakia, 71 of them as a team captain.

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 and 1958 FIFA World Cup.

In his country Novák played mainly for Dukla Prague 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

 * Czech Republic
 * FIFA World Cup runner-up: 1962


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