Football World Cup 1938 / Czechoslovakia

This article covers the Czechoslovak national soccer team at the 1938 World Cup .

qualification

Bulgaria		-	Czechoslovakia		1: 1
Czechoslovakia		-	Bulgaria		6-0

Czechoslovak contingent

Number / name		Association at the time	birthday	International matches
goalkeeper
	Karel Burkert	SK Židenice	December 01, 1909
	František Plánička	Slavia Prague	06/02/1904
Defense
	Jaroslav Burgr	Sparta Prague	03/07/1906
	Karel Černý	Slavia Prague
	Ferdinand Daučík	Slavia Prague	05/30/1910
	Josef Orth	Slovan Bratislava
midfield
	Jaroslav Bouček	Sparta Prague	11/13/1912
	Karel Kolský	Sparta Prague	09/21/1914
	Vlastimil Kopecký	Slavia Prague	10/14/1912
	Josef Košťálek	Sparta Prague	08/31/1909
	Otakar Nožíř	Slavia Prague	03/12/1917
attack
	Vojtěch Bradáč	Slavia Prague	10/06/1913
	Václav Horák	Slavia Prague	09/27/1912
	Arnošt cross	SK Pardubice	03/14/1910
	Josef Ludl	Viktoria Žižkov	06/03/1916
	Oldřich Nejedlý	Sparta Prague	December 26, 1909
	Antonín Puč	Slavia Prague	05/16/1907
	Jan Říha	Sparta Prague	11/11/1915
	Oldrich Rulc	SK Židenice	March 28, 1911
	Karel Senecký	Sparta Prague	03/17/1919
	Ladislav Šimůnek	Slavia Prague	04/10/1916
	Josef Zeman	Sparta Prague	01/23/1915
Trainer
	Josef Meissner

Czechoslovak team matches

Round of 16

11,000

Stade Cavée Verte ( Le Havre )

Czechoslovakia

Netherlands

Leclerq ( France )

3: 0 a.d. (0: 0, 0: 0)

1: 0 Košťálek (93.) 2: 0 Nejedlý (111.) 3: 0 Zeman (118.)

Quarter finals

25,000

Parc Lescure ( Bordeaux )

Brazil

Czechoslovakia

by Hertzka ( Hungary )

1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 0)

1-0 Leônidas (30th) 1: 1 Nejedlý (65th) 11m

Replay game:

20,000

Parc Lescure ( Bordeaux )

Brazil

Czechoslovakia

Capdeville ( France )

2: 1 (0: 1)

0: 1 Kopecký (25th) 1: 1 Leônidas (57th) 2: 1 Roberto (62nd)

The Czechs were rated a little stronger against Brazil. But the vice world champion from 1934 had to accept a 2-1 defeat against the only South American team after a 1-1 draw in the second leg. Brazil lost two players in the first game to expulsion and Czechoslovakia lost their world-class goalkeeper Planicka to a broken arm, so that he could not take part in the playoff. The Brazilians played with nine new players (!) And the Czechoslovaks had to cope with a broken nose of the scorer Kopecky in the game.