# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jiri-zidek-sr
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:53:42.030Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jiri-zidek-sr"
name: "Jiří Zídek Sr."
slug: "jiri-zidek-sr"
description: "Jiří Zídek Sr. was a Czech professional basketball player and coach. At 2.06 metres tall, Zídek was a talented center who was named the Best Czech Player of the 20th Century, and was the Czechoslovak League's all-time leading scorer. He was also among the 105 nominees to the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors list. His son, Jiří \"George\" Zídek Jr., also won the EuroLeague title with Žalgiris, in 1999. To this day, they are the only father and son to have reached a EuroLeague title game as players. In 2019, he became the first Czech to be inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame."
tagline: "Czech basketball player and basketball coach (1944–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Zidek_1970.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1944-02-08"
deathDate: "2022-05-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.07476666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Jiří Zídek Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%B3%D8%B1."
    title: "چيرى زيديك سر."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Z%C3%ADdek_(1944)"
    title: "Jiří Zídek (1944)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jiří Zídek Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Z%C3%ADdek_Sr."
    title: "Jiří Zídek Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Z%C3%ADdek_Sr."
    title: "Jiří Zídek Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Z%C3%ADdek_(1944)"
    title: "Jiří Zídek (1944)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Z%C3%ADdek_Sr."
    title: "Jiří Zídek Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%99%D7%96'%D7%99_%D7%96%D7%99%D7%93%D7%A7"
    title: "ייז'י זידק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Z%C3%ADdek_(1944.)"
    title: "Jiří Zídek (1944.)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Z%C3%ADdek_(cestista_1944)"
    title: "Jiří Zídek (cestista 1944)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Z%C3%ADdek_(1944%E2%80%932022)"
    title: "Jiří Zídek (1944–2022)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump