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Letter from PragueThe perils of the Pilsen train stop
For a few months from late July until the nights draw in from September and
force me to change my weekend timetable, I look out of the window with some
suspicion when my Prague-bound train pulls up at Pilsen on Sunday evenings.
The cause of my fear can usually be heard before it appears: returning
football supporters after an away game in the West Bohemian city.
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Current AffairsSome fans plan boycott of first game of new Czech football league season over ground-share
The new league season in Czech football gets underway after the summer
break this weekend. And the very first game of 2010-2011 could well take
place in front of half-empty stands on Friday evening. Bohemians 1905 are
hosting Slavia Prague, but both clubs’ fans are organizing a boycott of
the game to protest the fact that they are now sharing the modern Eden
stadium. It was built for Slavia, but it is now also Bohemians’ home
ground, after they were forced to leave their traditional stadium about a
kilometer away.
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Brno is to build a miniature Blob – using the avant-garde design by the
late architect Jan Kaplický originally intended to house the National
Library. Vuvuzelas may be driving everyone mad, but they are selling like
hot cakes, and why do so many Czechs stretch the truth in their CVs? Find
out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.
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SpecialEvery team has its fans in Riegrovy sady
Football is, quite literally, the buzz these days, and no less so in
Prague, where Czechs are following the 2010 World Cup wholeheartedly,
despite their team’s absence from the pitches of South Africa. In the
week since the tournament began, one Prague locale in particular stands out
as “the” place to watch the games; not just for Praguers, but also for
the tens of thousands of foreigners who inhabit the Czech capital. In a
special feature for today, Christian Falvey reports from Prague’s
epicentre of football fandom, Riegrovy sady.
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Current AffairsWith own team absent, many Czechs supporting Slovakia at World Cup
The Czech Republic’s soccer players failed to qualify for this year’s
World Cup, and, like Czech fans, will be watching the football extravaganza
on television. But with their own team not there, who will Czechs be
supporting in South Africa? Well, Slovakia has finished top of a poll
asking just that question: that despite the facts the Slovaks perhaps
don’t always cheer for their one-time fellow citizens.
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Current AffairsItalia ’90 a World Cup to remember for Czechoslovak fans able to travel freely after fall of communism
With just days remaining until the World Cup kicks off in South Africa,
football fever is beginning to grip fans around the globe. The Czech
Republic failed to qualify this year, but many will have fond memories of
the 1990 World Cup in Italy, when supporters from Czechoslovakia were
finally able to travel freely to a major soccer tournament.
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