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Photo: Zdeněk Pavlis
Collecting eggs in the morning is also one of Jaroslav Němek’s daily duties.
Photo: Zdeněk Pavlis
Of course, Jaroslav Němec also has original, hand-fired plum and pear wine prepared for his guests. Of course, a German woman…
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Jaroslav Němec has one of the small ponds on his country estate full of trout, while another one is full of carp and tench.
Teammates from the most famous era in the history of Bohemians remember the then fast winger Jaroslav Němek as one of the few who was able to stand up to coach Pospíchal. Oppose him, debate with him, tell him your opinion.
“Neither Toník nor Karol allowed themselves so much on him. But I was already like that. I spoke faster than I thought and Pospichal took me for that. As the jester on the team, which was somewhat of an advantage. I was a scumbag, I was able to dial him in a lot of times, but he knew that when I came on, I would give myself away on the field and leave everything there. Yet I have not heard a single word of praise from him in five years. But neither do the others,” says the German at the microphone of Sportu.cz, going back four decades to the past, when he wore the green and white jersey of the Kangaroos and experienced the hard school of Tomáš Pospíchal.
Jaroslav Němecnarozen: March 6, 1954fotbal’s career: 1977 – 1978 TJ Kolín, 1978 – 1983 Bohemians Prague, 1984 – 1986 Slavia Prague, 1987 – 1991 Sparkasse Weitra achievements: championship title with Bohemians in the 1982/82 season
“She was tough. And his training even harder. But if they weren’t so tough, we would never have played the way we did. He was in a hurry, he had his outbursts, so as soon as someone was on the wave, he immediately shot them down. Nevertheless, I can’t say a bad word against him, because he gave me, a boy from the division Kolín, a chance in Bohemka among such players as Dobiaš, Panenka, Bičovský.”
Jaroslav Němec enjoyed his time with Pospíchal not only at the very end of his engagement with Botič, which he mentioned several times in Kopačky na hříbík.
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The Bohemians championship team in the 1982/83 season. In the top row, from the left, Hybš, Němec, Levý, Ondra, Mičinec, Koukal. Middle row Jiří Sloup, Vladimír Hruška, Borovička, Zdeněk Hruška, Poštůlka, Doležal, Příložný, Chaloupka. Bottom row Cermák, Prokeš, Jakubec, Bičovský, Marčík and Zelenský.
“I’ve always been physically fit, but before the cup match against the Spanish opponent, the coach ordered us to train so hard that I was done. I admitted that I couldn’t train anymore, to which Pospíchal responded: ‘If you can’t, run off the pitch and go to work.’ Of course, it wasn’t a secret, so an article was published in the humoristic weekly Dikobraz at the time that in Bohemka, work is a punishment for a person, while in the West, thousands of unemployed people would give I don’t know what they would do if they could work. Quite an uproar. Especially when I started the cup match and played against the Spaniards.”
Jaroslav Němec of course remembers the 1980s in football boots, when he played for Bohemians, Slavia and also played in the national team jersey in the memorable qualifying match at Milan’s San Siro. The newly formed national team of František Havránek, whose starting line-up included eight Kangaroos, drew 2:2 with reigning world champions Italy.
“I played for Claudio Gentile, who was the Mackie Messer of Italian football. A tough guy who really grinded it out. But then again, I probably didn’t play that badly when I stayed on the field the whole match. There were really eight of us in the lineup from Bohemka, we drew with the recent world champions, but Pospichal didn’t praise us for that either.”
Photo: Profimedia/CNC/ Jaroslav Legner, Profimedia.cz
Former Bohemians footballer Jaroslav Němec in Vršovice Ďolíček.
Not only in Bohemians, but also in Slavia and even the Olympic national team, Jaroslav Němec finished prematurely.
And have you ever heard why? Why did he leave Eden on a whim and prefer to play half a year for Kolín? And why did the Vengloš and Brumovský coaches kick him out of the national team after training with Roma AS? Why did he end up on the Olympic team and didn’t go with him to the tournament in Moscow?
At the time, it was written about disciplinary reasons, but Jaroslav Němec has only now revealed what was hidden behind them.
“I can only curse myself for losing the Olympic gold. Due to his nature, his directness, due to the fact that I always spoke faster than I thought,” he does not look for excuses even after years and does not resort to phrases in the confession, which is definitely worth listening to.
You will learn a lot about how things went in football before and after November 1989… For example, about how under socialism football players smuggled cigarettes and alcohol to the West to improve themselves, how a German transported a Russian samovar to Germany and fainting attempts were made for him when it came to customs control at the border. At that time, he drove the samovar, but the customs officers discovered a violin at the Slavist coach Jaroslav Jareš. And moreover, alienated from the museum…
Of course, you can find out how it turned out in Kopačky na hřebík.
But you will also learn how it was with the Cologne stadium, when Jaroslav Němec was the chairman of the local club and faced accusations that he wanted to sell off land for construction plots, that he set fire to the grandstand, that he threatened to shoot an employee of the tax office.
Jaroslav Němec talks about all this into the microphone of Sport. cz to the point and does not even avoid the names of specific people. For example, the name of the then mayor of Kolín and the current minister of the interior, Vít Rakušana.
Photo: Zdeněk Pavlis
Jaroslav Němec has one of the small ponds on his country estate full of trout, while another one is full of carp and tench.
For this reason, listen to the story of a footballer who ended up in the Bohemians championship team only because he greeted Kangaroo legend Antonín Panenko in the rematch of the European Champions Cup in Vienna.
But you will also hear how he lives on his country estate, where trout and carp jump out of the ponds, where he raises sheep, collects eggs every morning and mushrooms grow in his garden.
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