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How did a boy from Holešovice get involved in New Zealand in the mid-1990s? “I was very lucky. A lot of New Zealanders traveled here after the revolution. One of them lived at our house for three months and invited me to play rugby at their house, “says Macháček in the podcast. Conquered. At that time, the player from Prague’s Slavia interrupted Matfyz’s studies and went to the other side of the globe.
“At the time, I didn’t even think that rugby should feed me, I just enjoyed it,” says Macháček, who returned to the university in Prague a year later, but immediately moved to Wales for another job. You can watch the whole episode on video, or listen to it in an audio player at the beginning of the article.
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In the end, the Czech rugby player was there when he became a professional in amateur sports, he played the finals of the French league before the visit of 80,000 and at the end of the nineties he twice received an invitation to the Barbarians, a prestigious team of world stars.
“When the Barbarians were in Prague in 2017, it was a holiday. They showed modern rugby here, ”recalls a man who, after the end of his career, focuses mainly on youth development. Sometimes parents of children have to convince themselves that rugby is not a brutal sport full of violence, but rather a gentleman’s sport. He is also involved in the Coaches in Schools project, which aims to help physical education teachers with children’s sports development.
Watch today’s episode and learn more about the Olympic ambitions of Czech rugby, cooperation with American football, simulation in football, or why children are surprised that something is flowing from their hair after physical education.
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