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Letter from PragueThe Czech Republic's footballers - unofficial ambassadors to the EU!
You may recall that Radio Prague ran a competition earlier this year in
which we asked who you considered the most interesting Czech, living or
dead. Someone from our Russia section told me something interesting: they
got a few letters in which people chose the Czech football captain, Pavel
Nedved. As almost every single player on the Czech national team plays
abroad, it occurred to me that many people's only connection with the
Czech Republic might be that their favourite team features a Czech player,
be it Petr Cech at French club Rennes, or Patrik Berger at Portsmouth.
Indeed when Vladimir Smicer joined Liverpool - Berger's old club - the
fans had a song which went "he's Czech, he's great, he's Patrik
Berger's mate".
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Jaroslav Janis is second Czech to become a formula one driver. Juventus'
Czech midfielder Pavel Nedved will miss the Champions League final match.
Czech tennis players have had rather bad luck at Roma Masters and the
Hamburg Masters Series ATP tournaments.
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