Aidan Fitzmaurice
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first heard Mar 2026
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We drew a lot of games in Italian 90, but they won the Euros in 76.
They beat, in the Netherlands, the semi-finals, beat Germany in the final who were world champions.
Massive achievement.
So he's known more for that here.
There's a big event on at the end of the month where they get a lot of the guys together, kind of commemorating that.
There'll be a lot of events across the year.
So here, yeah, he's known for the Panenka, but he's known more as,
one of the teams that won in 1976.
One thing I would say as well, again, speaking to people here and looking at history, a few people mentioned this to me, that in Czech history, things happen when the year ends in an eight.
So 1918, Czechoslovakia is formed.
In 1938, the Nazis come.
1968, you have the Prague Spring and the Red Army, the Soviet tanks come in.
Football, things happen with a six.
So 1976, Czechoslovakia won the Euros.
1996, Czech Republic, brilliant team, finish runners-up at the Euros.
2006 the last time they qualified for the world cup and here we are in 26 so they're wondering about a little they do note the fact that's a big thing in their history that stuff happens when the year ends in an eight uh clearly not not always with a positive end the the invasions in in 38 and 68 but they're playing that a little bit that's again is that the czechs just clinging to hope that there's a lucky omen there on 26 i don't know but certainly uh we do need to remember they won we yes we achieved things under jack charlton got to world cups czechoslovakia won the urls
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