Vlastimil Kopecký was a Czech

Czech Republic

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 football player

Football (soccer)

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. He played 26 games for Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia national football team

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, scoring eight goals. He was a participant in the 1934

1934 FIFA World Cup

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 and 1938 FIFA World Cup

1938 FIFA World Cup

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In his country he played for Slavia Prague, for which he scored 252 league goals in 325 matches (1931/32-1950). He is the second highest Czech league goalscorer in history, only Josef Bican

Josef Bican

Josef "Pepi" Bican was a Czech-Austrian football forward. It is estimated by respected footballing statistics page RSSSF that Bican scored around 800 goals in all competitive matches, not including friendly games...

has scored more goals in the Czech league. Died of heart attack on football pitch.