On Thursday 8 September Baník Ostrava celebrated its 100th anniversary in a deluxe way. A person of the most profitable Czech golf equipment, 3-time Czechoslovakia winner and Czech League winner 2003/2004, semi-finalist of the 1978/79 European Cup. In latest a long time it has realized numerous global successes, but it has normally been a very fascinating club. Razovítým, as the locals say.
Stressing the specificity of Baník is not the prerogative of the Pragese, of Brno or of the people of other locations, in whose expressions traces of irony and even mockery can be identified. The locals say so.
“Baník is traditionally a family club “, suggests Alois Hadamczik, the president of the hockey affiliation, who co-owned the club from 2000-2003, and his young brother Evžen, who tragically handed away thirteen a long time back, have signed up for the club’s most important hits. “This is his greatest power” materials.
Even with substantial anticipations, the unflattering success from the start out of the present-day year point out that Baník will have to wait around for their following crowning. And possibly for a extended time. “Anything is still missing” reflects Václav Daněk, the club’s shooting legend. “The Miner is a distinctive club from the other individuals”, he also factors out.
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When Czechoslovakian associates lifted the trophy of European champions in Belgrade in 1976, Baník Ostrava (Sparta was in 2nd league) dominated the home stage, winning the 1st title in historical past.
When Czechoslovakian footballers brought gold from the Moscow Olympic Video games in 1980 and a rather altered team gained bronze at the European Championships in Italy, Bazaly (the iconic previous Baník Ostrava stadium) celebrated its next entry into the news.
When, in 2004, the adult men of mentor Karel Brückner played great football at the European Championships in Portugal, the finest in the continent, and only adversity deprived them of the deserved triumph (they won the bronze), in Ostrava the applause for the 1st title in the impartial Czech era.
Is this just a coincidence?
Football in Ostrava was played very long in advance of the creation of Czechoslovakia, several sports clubs ended up already lively all through Austria-Hungary. A vibrant sporting existence also took spot during the Excellent War (1914-1918), when a lot of younger people today did not have to go to the entrance mainly because they worked in the strategic sectors of mining and metallurgy. And they played football. It all led to the development of their have club.
The reserve Blue Blue Historical past by Ferdinand Radvanský and Petr Šiřina, printed in 1977 by the Profil publishing dwelling, describes the process as follows:
“What preceded were only thoughts, goals, wants. Only September 8, 1922 is the date of the deed. A constituent conference was convened that day at the U dubu cafe in Slesian Ostrava. The key organizers were being Karel Aniol, Arnošt Haberkiewicz, Petr Křižák, František Mruzek and Jar. Burner. Twenty lovers signed the attendance sheet that establishes the standard assembly, twenty signatories, going in direction of experience “.
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It was a historical act, but at the time no just one had any thought what a phenomenon was remaining born. Following all, the publication reveals the embarrassment that accompanied the founding of the club.
“A guest of just one of the impressive clubs in Ostrava even received up and talked about the hurdles to be triumph over and this kind of ineffective infants in the giants quarter with an aged custom. He prophesied an early disintegration of the new association, who knows if not inside of a yr and 1 day…”
But the miner is continue to in this article. A hundred a long time by now.
Resource: Blue and white historical past, FC Baník Ostrava
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