Round 1 (2005-06)

[Ziaka]

Round 1 - August 7, 2005

FK Jablonec 97 - 1. FC Slovacko 2-1 (2,820)

FC Tescoma Zlin - FK Chmel Blsany 0-1 (3,151)

SK Sigma Olomouc - FC Banik Ostrava 1-0 (8,404)

FC Marila Pribram - 1. FC Brno 2-1 (4,158)

SK Slavia Prague - FC Vysocina Jihlava 1-1 (6,672)

MK Mlada Boleslav - FC Slovan Liberec 2-4 (5,038)

FK Viktoria Plzen - AC Sparta Prague 1-2 (7,968)

FK SIAD Most - FK Teplice 2-1 (11,729)

Average attendance per game: 6,243

Michal Papadopoulos (Banik Ostrava) watch:

Michal played for 72 minutes against Olomouc until he was substituted.

STANDINGS

1. FC Slovan Liberec - 4:2 3

2. FK SIAD Most 2:1 3

3. AC Sparta Prague - 2:1 3

4. SK Sigma Olomouc - 1:0 3

5. FC Marila Pribram - 2:1 3

6. FK Jablonec 97 - 2:1 3

7. FK Chmel Blsany - 1:0 3

8. SK Slavia Prague - 1:1 1

9. FC Vysocina Jihlava 1:1 1

10. FK Teplice - 1:2 0

11. FC Banik Ostrava - 0:1 0

12. FK Viktoria Plzen - 1:2 0

13. FC Tescoma Zlin - 0:1 0

14. 1. FC Brno - 1:2 0

15. 1. FC Slovacko - 1:2 0

16. MK Mlada Boleslav - 2:4 0

Round 2 - August 14, 2005

FC Vysocina Jihlava - FC Marila Pribram

AC Sparta Prague - FK SIAD Most

FC Banik Ostrava - FC Tescoma Zlin

1. FC Slovacko - MK Mlada Boleslav

FK Chmel Blsany - FK Viktoria Plzen

FK Jablonec 97 - SK Sigma Olomouc

FK Teplice - SK Slavia Prague

1. FC Brno - FC Slovan Liberec

[hradiste]

Slovacko to ten to rok da!!!!!!! Nikdo jim nevzal dvanact bodu jak loni(s nima by letos byli asi 8 a hrali by myslim intertoto)....kazdopadne na Jablonec maji(kdyz v poslednim nebo predposlednim zapase porazily mistra-Spartu), enom je skoda ze se nehraje v Hradisti.......

[Ziaka]

Ahoj hradiste a vitej na nase forum. (Hello hradiste and welcome to the forums).

Good luck to your team (Slovacko) and my team (Banik) in the upcoming season.

[drakos13]

ziaka i cant help but notice u have a czech connection? did u live there? i noticed there must have been some greek community i mean they had greek restaurants in prague...

back to football.......

Sparta Prague good to hear theyre off to a good start...

i had no idea Plzen made it to the Gambrinus liga.... forza plzener urquell :tup: !

[Ziaka]

I was born in Czechoslovakia and lived there for 16 years until I came to Chicago. The Greek community in Czechoslovakia was a direct result of the civil war in Greece in late 40's. The number of Greeks in czechoslovakia numbered around 20,000 if I recall correctly. Most of them returned to Greece after the fall of junta in 1974. The few that remain in today's Czech republic number between 2,000 - 3,000. The region around the city of Ostrava is where most of those Greeks lived.

Plzen are back in the top division thanks to the fact that Drnovice failed to receive a A' Division license from the Czech FA. Unfortunately, I think Sparta will be hard to beat this season.

[drakos13]

I was born in Czechoslovakia and lived there for 16 years until I came to Chicago. The Greek community in Czechoslovakia was a direct result of the civil war in Greece in late 40's. The number of Greeks in czechoslovakia numbered around 20,000 if I recall correctly. Most of them returned to Greece after the fall of junta in 1974. The few that remain in today's Czech republic number between 2,000 - 3,000. The region around the city of Ostrava is where most of those Greeks lived.

Plzen are back in the top division thanks to the fact that Drnovice failed to receive a A' Division license from the Czech FA. Unfortunately, I think Sparta will be hard to beat this season.

dont be offended (im just curios) if i ask but i assume your family moved there because they were communists?

and i take it u are a Banik fan? do u know Michal/his family? would he ever come to greece to play?

[Ziaka]

Why would I be offended? Its all part of painful Greek history. I think one big mistake that is made by Greeks is to put labels on people. It was not only communists fighting on the side of the opposition.

My family, when they left were young. My father was 14 and my mother even younger, and they were not part of any politics. They were just caught in the middle of things in the xorio that supported the antartes in the mountains. As for other family members one of my grandfathers was actively fighting as part of Ellas in 1944 against the Germans, but was put in a concentration camp after the Varkiza agreement in 1946, when Ellas put down their arms hoping that they would be able to take part in the political process. He was not released from the camp until 1962 thanks to Georgios Papandreou. Only then and after coming to Czechoslovakia to join his family, did he join the Greek communist party in exile. My other grandfather was not involved in politics at all, but ended up leaving Greece as did 90% of the inhabitants of the village where they lived in 1949 after the civil war ended.

As for Michal, I know his father Tanas (Thanassis). We grew up together in the same neighborhood and we also played together in a local youth team (NHKG Ostrava). You might be suprised to know that Tanas played one season for Panathinaikos in 1987-1988, before coming back to Banik Ostrava. Would Michal come to Greece to play? I don't know. From what I read so far, his dream is to play in Italy, but you never know anything is possible. He is however a PAOK fan and even trained with the PAOK youth team several years ago. Michal and his family travel to Greece quite frequently.

[drakos13]

pretty interesting story......i suppose the greek community in hungary has a similar one?

also what about Vacslav Sverkos? do u know him?

[Ziaka]

Yes, there was a Greek community in Hungary, but in a much smaller scale than in Czechoslovakia or USSR. Actually, the majority of the refugees from the Greek civil war ended up either in Czechoslovakia (Ostrava region) or in the city of Tasheknt in USSR (thats where the great Chatzipanagis came from. Few ended up in in other "socialist" countries such as Romania, East Germany (Kokkalis), Poland, etc.

Since you mentioned Hungary, when my father left Greece at age 14, during his transit in Yugoslavia, he had to be hospitalized and as a result the group he was with left without him. He stayed behind, and once he was healthy he was re-settled by Red Cross to Hungary. At that point he had no idea where the rest of his family was (they ended up in Czechoslovakia). It took him few years until red Cross was able to locate his relatives. As a result he lived in Budapest for over 3 years without any contact with his relatives, but he had a chance to witness the greatest soccer players of that era by going to Dozsa Ujpest, Ferencvaros and the Hungarian NT games that featured great stars such Grosics, Bozsik, Lorant, Czibor,

Kocsis, Hidegkuti, Puskas.

As for Vaclav Sverkos, I don't know him, and I have some doubt if he is of Greek origin. I will have to contact my friend Tanas Papadopoulos and find out for sure.