Karel Pešek

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Karel Pešek
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Personnel
Surname Karel Pešek-Káďa
birthday September 20, 1895
place of birth Olomouc ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death September 30, 1970
Place of death Prague ,  Czechoslovakia
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1908-1912 SK Meteor Vinohrady
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1913 ČAFC Královské Vinohrady
1913-1933 Sparta Prague
1933-1934 SK Židenice
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1920-1931 Czechoslovakia 44 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Karel Pešek-Káďa (born September 20, 1895 in Olomouc , † September 30, 1970 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak football and ice hockey player . Between 1920 and 1931 he played 44 international matches for the Czechoslovak national soccer team , in which he was always the team captain .

The soccerplayer

Karel Pešek, born in Olomouc, lived in Prague from the age of eight . After school he played football in the Vinohrady district of Prague . In 1908 he got the opportunity to play for the second team of SK Meteor Vinohrady , in his first game for Meteor he scored two goals. Pešek, who played on the right wing, asked after six months if he could play in the first team, but only earned a tired smile.

In 1913 he played with Meteor against ČAFC Královské Vinohrady , one of the founding members of the Czechoslovak Football Association. ČAFC offered Pešek to play in the first team, the 17-year-old accepted the offer immediately. In contrast to the rather smaller Meteor, ČAFC was a large club with a corresponding audience and media coverage, and because the teachers at that time were usually against playing football, Karel Pešek adopted a pseudonym: Káďa.

It was foreseeable that ČAFC would not be able to keep the great talent long. A few months after moving to ČAFC, the team played a tournament at FK Deutsche Sportbrüder 1898 , in which the leading Czechoslovak clubs Sparta Prague , Slavia Prague and Viktoria Žižkov took part. Although ČAFC Královské Vinohrady was last, Karel Pešek alias Káďa was considered the best player of the tournament. All three top teams stood for the service of Pešek, who finally landed at Sparta Prague after a grotesque tug of war. The fee in amateur football at that time was 56 crowns, exactly the amount that Káďa owed his club in membership fees.

After only a year with Sparta, he became captain and remained so for 15 years. From winger he developed into central midfielder. His career was interrupted for several years during the First World War, which he spent at the front. In Czechoslovak football there were more technically adept and faster players than Pešek, who, however, had hardly any weaknesses. His commitment, his understanding of the game, his overview and his game intelligence were outstanding. He is considered the inventor of the tackle, with which he often took the ball from his opponents. In 1919 he led Sparta to the championship of the Czechoslovak football association ČSF , and that year he also took part in the military Olympics in Paris , where the Czechoslovak team won gold. At the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp , he led the Czechoslovak team in the final against Belgium . In the 38th minute of the game, he led the team with the score 2-0 for the Belgians from the field in protest against the referee's performance and ensured the subsequent disqualification of Czechoslovakia.

Karel Pešek-Káďa was invincible with Sparta Prague in the early 1920s. The team, dubbed the "Iron Sparta", did not lose a single out of 50 championship games between 1920 and 1923, scoring 230 goals and only conceding 40. In 1922 Sparta was again champion of the ČSF.

Karel Pešek made his debut for the Czechoslovak national team in their first international match on August 28, 1920 and almost naturally wore the captain's armband, which he would not give up in his other 43 international matches.

When the Czechoslovak League was founded in 1925, initially only playing Prague teams, rival Slavia won the title ahead of Sparta. But already in 1926 Pešek and his team could look forward to winning the title. 1927 was probably the most successful year for Pešek, at least at the club level. Sparta not only won the championship, it also triumphed in the first year of the Mitropa Cup .

His last appearance in Czechoslovak Dress Pešek had on 20 September 1931 in Budapest , where the Czechoslovak Republic Hungary 0: defeated third

In 1932 Karel Pešek won the Czechoslovak championship again with Sparta, but in 1933 he left the club in a dispute. Sparta had sued Pešek's mother, who had leased the club's stadium business, for alleged failure to fulfill the contract for half a million crowns. Of course, at 38, Karel Pešek was well beyond his performance horizon, especially with the speed of the younger players he could no longer keep up. He moved to the Brno first division promoted SK Židenice , for whom he played for one season. In May 1934, the best Czechoslovakian player of the interwar period, Karel Pešek, called Káďa, ended his career.

For all his qualities, Pešek was not a goalscorer. In 126 league games for Sparta he scored four goals, one in the national team. Karel Pešek played 727 games for Sparta Prague, a record that was only broken in the 1990s by Jozef Chovanec , who had 743 matches.

Stations

  • SK Meteor Vinohrady (1908–1912)
  • ČAFC Královské Vinohrady (1913)
  • Sparta Prague (1913-1933)
  • SK Židenice (1933–1934)

successes

  • Master ČSF 1919 and 1922
  • Czechoslovak football champion in 1926, 1927 and 1932
  • Mitropa Cup winner 1927

The ice hockey player

Karel Pešek was not only an excellent football player, he also mastered ice hockey at the highest level. As in football, he also played for Sparta on the ice . At the European ice hockey championship in 1914 he was with the Bohemian national team ice hockey European champion , in 1922 and 1925 he repeated this success with the Czechoslovak national team . At the Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920, Pešek won the bronze medal with the Czechoslovak team. In the early 1920s he was considered the best striker in Czechoslovak ice hockey.

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personal data
SURNAME Pešek, Karel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pešek-Káďa, Karel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak soccer player and ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Olomouc
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1970
Place of death Prague