Karl Franklin Svoboda (born March 23, 1962, in Belleville, Ontario) is a Canadian former rugby union footballer of Czech descent.
[1] During this same year, Svoboda's brother Paul captained the Canadian National Rugby League Team.
Svoboda played in the first three Rugby World Cups (1987, 1991, 1995), and amassed a total of 24 International Caps between the years 1985–1995.
[3] Svoboda also gained a Blue at Oxford by playing defense in ice hockey during the Varsity match against Cambridge University in 1996.
Since then has moved back to coaching the club where it all started (Belleville Bulldogs Senior Men’s)