Adidas T-shirt, Josef Masopust Football School

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Condition: as found, signs of use

Provenance: significant sports collection

Josef Masopust (9 February 1931 Střimice near Most – 29 June 2015 Prague) was a Czechoslovak footballer and coach. In 1962 he received the Ballon d'Or as the best European footballer. The Football Association of the Czech Republic named him the best Czech footballer of the last 50 years. In 2000 he won the poll for Czech Football Personality of the Century and shortly afterwards experts named him the Czech Footballer of the Century. In 2004 Pelé included him among the 125 greatest living footballers. He was on the UEFA Jubilee 52 Golden Players list.

Since 2009 the stadium in Most has borne his name (Josef Masopust Football Stadium). In May 2012 his statue was unveiled at the Dukla Praha stadium at Juliska in Prague 6. (Source: Wikipedia)