favorite czech football team

wer · Feb 15, 2009

Sigma":12cbrim0 said:

My favourite team is Haná Prostějov, but they play in the 6th level of Czech football.
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Wasn’t it Sigma some time ago?

Torgut · Feb 15, 2009

My favourite Czech team is Bohemians. As far as I know they were the first to present a wen site with English version and besides they wear the same colors as my home team, Sporting Clube de Portugal, sometimes (wrongly) known as Sporting Lisbon. But I don't really follow Czech football. Once I went to watch a match (Sparta, and, by coincidence, Bohemians) and it was a frustrating experience.

Polednikova · Feb 16, 2009

wer":2rox1wvv said:

Polednikova":2rox1wvv said:

Incidentally, my good Czech friend in London told us that historically, Sparta was the Communist team and they had plenty of money, whereas Slavia were the intellectual dissidents - which is why some of the more charming Sparta fans chant 'Žid' at us... - with no money. And this explains why we're 'Sešivání' or 'stitched together', because the team had to stitch their own shirts! I don't think that's a very well known story, even amongst Czechs.
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It’s a little cruel to say that Sparta was (is) the communist team. I called them proletarian in my previous post and I guess it suits them better. But it is true that Sparta was heavily supported by commies while Slavia was persecuted.

Historically, Slavia was established as a Czech national club and was supposed to become rival for the Czech Germans. That’s why the Czech national red and white colours were chosen. The Czech-German rivalry quickly vanished because the Germans were never able to establish a top football team and Slavia profiled itself as a nationalistic, bourgeois and conservative club (and thus attracted a lot of Jews, thereof the Jew-related invectives). It was soonly critised as elitist.
Sparta was established as proletarian club for the socialists (That was before socialists and communists split.) and thus wears blood-red colour. Sparta was not distinctly Czech, as a socialistic club it was internationalist and thus supported even by the Germans.
For years, Slavia was the rich team and Sparta the poor one. Slavia clearly dominated the pre-war era. The hard times started with nazism, but still Slavia was the best team. The decline of Slavia started with the communist regime. Commies sent a lot of the players to the uranium mines, both Slavia and Sparta stadia on Letná were destroyed, but only one new stadion for Sparta was built. Slavia was forced to change its name, descended into regional competition and practically perished. It was spontaneously restored during the more liberal sixties and was tolerated up to the fall of communism. After revolution Sparta dominated and Slavia was in troubles because of the lacking stadium. Slavia stadium was built recently and Slavia seems be consolidated now. I would say that Sparta wasted its economic advantage.
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That's fascinating, Wer. Thanks very much - Tony will be fascinated.

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