Silence reigned. And then the stadium burst with excitement
Václav Mašek was born on the 21st of March in 1941. He spent his childhood in a kitchen garden area in Braník where his father, a shopkeeper, had a house with a greengrocer´s. He took up football in ABC Braník, joined Sparta in 1954 and connected his following sport life with it. In 1962 he was a member of a legendary representative team that brought a silver medal from the FIFA World Cup in Chile. He played only in a single match against Mexico, but he scored a goal that for the following forty years became the fastest goal during all the championships. He also studied at university - he joined the military sports club Dukla Praha for compulsory military service after graduation from Czech Technical University in 1970. He played for Sparta again from 1971 to 1973 and he shocked everyone because he wanted to work at the same time. He worked as a chairman of football Sparta for two and a half years after the Velvet Revolution. He does not like to remember the “bafuňář” era when he had to face the efforts to seize the club. He returned to Sparta once more after some time when he got involved in the endowment fund.