Filip Ardon
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On Monday morning, he caused a wave of anger among football fans on social networks with a published video. In it, the first deputy mayor of Prague, Zdeněk Hřib, wore a Slavia soccer jersey, on which he pasted the typical star with the Prague integrated transport logo. “If I offended someone, I am very sorry for that, it was not my intention,” Hřib himself commented on the case when asked by Deník.
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First Deputy Mayor of Prague Zdeněk Hřib wore a Slavia jersey with the club’s logo pasted in a video on the X social network. | Photo: Zdeněk Hřib / X
“In the remake of a recently published video, which also used the environment of the sports locker room, our colleague councilor for ICT and innovation Daniel Mazur and I primarily tried to draw attention to the possibility of signing up for this year’s Kick Prague innovation marathon,” added Hřib in his explanation. Specifically, he remade the video of the chairman of the STAN movement, Víto Rakušan, from the middle of January this year.
“However, in the current economic situation, the city cannot afford any expensive media campaign, so we have to do it a little bit on our knees. As deputy for transport, kick every day for affordable and high-quality public transport in the unified colors of PID. They are strikingly similar to the colors of one of the famous Prague football clubs. Of course, we normally don’t have any original PID jerseys in stock,” added the deputy mayor in his statement.
At the same time, a number of people on the X social network were irritated by the fact that Hřib, probably exaggerating, wrote that these were really jerseys of the Prague Integrated Transport.
Hřib, in his statement on the matter that aroused passion on the networks, also recalled that he had already drawn attention to a similar matter as mayor in 2020. At that time, he added on Instagram a photo in a t-shirt reminiscent of a Slavist match uniform also with the inscription PID, but at that time it was not a real jersey.
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In the same year, the then mayor also fought for the whole of Prague to have integrated transport united in the same colors – red and white – i.e. the ones that are also used by celebrities.
“Otherwise, I support a healthy lifestyle, sports and good football without distinction,” Hřib concluded his statement.
The question remains whether Slavia itself will somehow react to the whole matter. Her fans were outraged by the video from the X social network, and as attorney Tomáš Martinec, who supports the Vršovice club, pointed out, it could be parasitism on the club’s reputation.