His father never praised him and did not even believe that his son would become a professional athlete. An ordinary boy from the village of Hnidousy near Kladno eventually achieved everything he could in the world of sports and proved his father wrong. Despite the fact that Jaromir Jagr reached the very top, his friends keep teasing him when he will finally settle down, get married and start a family.
“Having a child is not heroic. But to raise him properly, that’s cool,” admits Jágr, whose former partner also wants a family of his own Andrea Verešová. Even though she didn’t even want to see men after they broke up, she eventually found her fateful love and started a family. But Jágr doesn’t want to get married or have children, and he has his reasons for that.
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A five-kilogram baby
His sister Jitka said that the judges gave him strength. When Jaromír Jágr was born, he weighed over five kilos and was almost 60 centimeters tall. Even then, it was clear to his parents that they had a unique child with enormous strength. “Once he even ripped the straps off the stroller and jumped out,” she laughed in an interview for Folks Jitka’s sister from a brother who began to use his strength mainly at home, because he was born into a peasant family with farms and a tavern.
“If it is true that children are chosen by their parents before they are born, my first decision was the best I ever made.” said Jaromír Jágr, who was born to mother Anna and father Jaromír, whom their son had to help from an early age. Throughout his childhood, he wielded pitchforks and scythes, according to his parents, he was withdrawn and quiet, and when he was not in the fields, he painted and embroidered pictures. Maybe his life would have gone in a completely different direction if he hadn’t put on skates and stood on the ice for the first time.
Six-year captain
He got his first proper skates under the Christmas tree when he was three years old, and it only took a few days for him to move on the ice as naturally as walking. He started with hockey training, he was always on the ice and during the summer he got by with a tennis ball and a hockey stick in the garden.
When he then started playing competitive matches at the age of six, he was the best player not only in his team, but practically every time in the entire tournament. Even though there were much older players in the team, they chose him as the captain, which brought one problem. The captain had to sign the minutes of the meeting. But Jágr didn’t know that after a few months at school.
His father did not believe him
The little hockey player was under the strict supervision of his father, who never gave him anything. Although he drove him to the stadium every morning and invented different exercises for him at home, he never praised him and later he was sure that his son would never become a professional athlete.
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