Soccer and journalism legend Ivo City has died – Sport.cz

Eva Urbanová, whose husband labored as a sports activities journalist in Rudé práv for greater than 1 / 4 of a century, later Práva and on the web site Sport.cz, informed the editors the unhappy information. For twelve years he was chairman of the Sports activities Journalists’ Membership. He wrote a number of books and regardless of the intense sickness with which he fought on the finish of his life, he stated: “I’ve no regrets, I had an exquisite life.”

With Dukla, City gained six league titles as a participant in the course of the membership’s most well-known legends from Juliska, Ladislav Novák, Josef Masopust, Svatopluk Pluskal, Ladislav Přáda and Rudolf Kučera, in addition to coach Jaroslav Vejvoda. In 1956, City performed 4 video games for the Czechoslovak nationwide crew.

Even when he was actively concerned in profession sports activities, he was already writing for Zápisník. “I made a decision on sports activities journalism whereas I used to be nonetheless a participant,” he stated when he started working with the Crimson Regulation sports activities editors within the Nineteen Seventies, which he led for almost twenty years after Ar-a- mach Velvet. He was not solely a wonderful journalist with respect, however as a wonderful storyteller he wrote many quick tales and several other books, similar to My Well-known Teammates, Soccer Legends, All My Targets.

The well-known image from the quilt of the primary version of Dukla mez sakrasky (1964) by Ota Pavle, whose good buddy City was, is legendary. Within the picture, a person in a jersey with the quantity 11 is strolling by way of Central Park in New York. Clock in opposition to him and the time 11:11 on them. Dukla gained the American Cup 4 occasions, 3 times with the footballer from the image – Ivo City.

In his enjoying profession, he was solely fortunate as a result of he had the elusive Svatopluk Pluskal as a competitor within the beginning line of Dukla after which within the nationwide crew. “I’ve by no means been jealous of Santa. It was an incredible honor for me to play in the identical crew with such good footballers and fantastic folks,” stated Ivo City, rejecting any nostalgia.

“Soccer specialists regretted that he was in Dukla. He was simply behind an iron full-back, enjoying higher than most midfielders within the league. However Dukla wanted not solely to enhance sometimes: in coaching he set an instance like Novák, and it was harder as a result of the captain of the crew gave the collected items to the sport and misplaced to they harm on the substitutes’ bench. ,” wrote the grasp of sports activities fiction Pavel within the aforementioned e book. “However that image was taken accidentally,” stated Ivo.

He began enjoying soccer within the areas round Strossmayer Sq. in Holešovice Prague. Later, he wore a Slavia shirt, even when he was based mostly in Letná, close to the place the Ministry of the Inside is as we speak. He joined the military in 1952 on the then ATK, later Dukla, and spent eleven of one of the best years of his profession there. He gained six championship titles together with her and as soon as gained the Czechoslovak Cup. He performed 183 league video games within the prime flight and scored one objective. He returned to Slavia for some time and on the finish of his profession he performed for the division Almighty.

He would put on the nationwide crew jersey 4 occasions, together with twice in opposition to Brazil, and took half within the well-known tour to South America in 1956. “I used to be stunned that the coaches remembered Rýgr and Kolský on me. We didn’t know the Brazilian, later world champions Djalma and Nilton Santos who already performed there, I met him a number of occasions in Strahov, Zózimo, Pepe, Gilmar and others. Pelé and Garrincha weren’t but within the nationwide crew. At dwelling, we performed 0-0 with the Brazilians, I sat the match on the Maracana on the bench, however we gained 1-0 within the cauldron with 200,000. Then I performed in opposition to them in Sao Paulo, however we misplaced 1:4. Regardless of that, the journey was an exquisite expertise, for the primary time I used to be throughout the ocean,” he stated.