Václav Mašek - Věrné sparťanské srdce + 2CD Stříbrní Chilané – Mašek Václav (2013)

Václav Mašek was Mr. Football. A speedster with an infallible left foot. Over six hundred matches and nearly as many goals, all for one club... A shy young man with the number ten on his back was a true shooter. Groundskeepers at more than one stadium couldn't stand him. They had to patch up the holes in the nets long into the night, which he tore apart with his cannon hidden in that sharp left foot. In faraway Belgium, there is a city where Václav's name cannot be spoken. Even today, at the sound of those two syllables, the plaster would fall from the walls of their Anderlecht stadium. First, he slipped in the first goal, and when that wasn't enough, he stood at the penalty spot. And in the return leg of the second round of the European Cup, he scored a goal that no one saw. It was such a blast. Upon returning to Prague, fans wanted to tip their hats to him, but they had none. They threw their hats from the stands onto the pitch in celebration of Václav's hat trick in the first match..." This is how football expert, journalist, and passionate fan Milan Holub describes the legendary player of Sparta and the runner-up of the World Cup in Chile 1962 in his text "Brazilian Final," which serves as an epilogue to the captivating autobiography of the former famous striker, later club president, and still a loyal Spartan, Václav Mašek. It is about...