Bican proti Čepičkovi
Fotbal ve stalinistickém Československu
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This revelatory, narrative monograph, exceptional in our literature, guides the reader through a time when decisions were not made on the playing field but in secretariats, when losses were attributed to the vices of the past and wins to class consciousness. It traces the fate of footballers in the cycle of political trials, repression and persecution, and delves into the mindset of the politburo. It analyses the game under the grip of the Cold War and ideology. The author makes available unknown facts from investigation files, trials and cadre assessments of players, coaches and officials accused of treason, espionage or collaboration with foreign intelligence. It details the stories of emigration, describing the dramatic escapes, successes and vicissitudes of famous footballers who left the republic. However, he does not overlook the progress that gradually occurred in the period 1948-1956, with many setbacks and dead ends in state support of sport, in methodology and in the social provision of athletes. In mid-1956, the consensus abroad was that the best team in the world was - Czechoslovakia! The author explains how out of the Stalinist darkness that led football astray, even to the edge of the abyss, a decade emerged that would be the most successful in the history of our football. The work is loosely based on the author's book Bican against Hitler. Football in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and thus allows a comparison of the actions of the two totalitarian regimes, Nazism and Stalinism, in the abuse, politicization and ideologization of the most popular sport. The work contains a rich photographic appendix.
