Otakar Škvajn

{{short description|Czechoslovak footballer}}

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{{Infobox football biography

|name = Otakar Škvajn

|image = Otakar Škvain (1894-1941).jpg

|caption = Otakar Škvajn.

|fullname =

|birth_date = {{birth date|1894|6|3|df=yes}}

|birth_place = Kladno, Austria-Hungary

|death_date = {{death date and age|1941|9|12|1894|6|3|df=yes}}

|death_place = Pardubice, Czechoslovakia

|nationalyears1 = 1920–1921

|nationalteam1 = Czechoslovakia

|nationalcaps1 = 6

|nationalgoals1 = 3

}}

Otakar Škvajn (3 June 1894[http://nv.fotbal.cz/reprezentace/reprezentace-a/statistiky/viewstat3.asp?name=SkvajnOtakar-Mazal Profile] at the official website of FAČR – 12 September 1941) was a Czechoslovak footballer.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/27356 |title=Otakar Škvajn |work=Olympedia |access-date=17 August 2021}} He competed in the men's tournament at the 1920 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sk/oto-skvajn-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418082029/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sk/oto-skvajn-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Otakar Škvajn Olympic Results |access-date=1 October 2018}}

On a club level, he played for SK Kladno, SK Židenice, Moravská Slavia Brno, SK Slavia Prague and AC Sparta Prague.[https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/43233/Otakar_Skvajn.html Profile] at National Football Teams portal[https://brnensky.denik.cz/fotbal_region/mazalovu-karieru-ukoncil-schovany-fotoaparat-20130315.html Mazalovu kariéru ukončil schovaný fotoaparát] by Antonín Zabloudil in Brněnský deník newspaper, 15 March 2013.

He was forced to end his active career at the age of 26 due to the knee injury. Afterwards, Škvajn began to work as a football manager, coaching i.a. SK Prostějov, SK Kladno, Pogoń Lwów and Wisła Kraków.

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