Josef Jelínek

"We drove through the whole town; we came into the bush and we looked for where the accommodation was. There was a large "Levarde" sign, a recreation center for the tobacco industry. With the bus we passed through the gate, stopped, and then we looked around. We went to the rooms and the joker Andrej Kvašňák said: 'Those Dukla players will be at their best, because they are used to sleeping on double beds from the barracks, so it will suit them here.' And that was it, there were military beds in the rooms. We came for lunch, there was some block and our coach Vytlačil says: 'Gentlemen, so as not to confuse you, I chose it. We will stay here, you will not have to worry about anything. Football is down, there are stadiums. Here we have one factory pitch, there we will train alone.'"

"We were unlucky to catch a referee who could blow the whistle, but otherwise he probably was not clever at all. Offensive action, it got to the left wing, it got into a penalty box, from an angle. I had it on the orthodox left, I fired, a shot like a cannon, and Djalma Santos slammed it down. It went into his hand and he put it down with his hand. Referee Latyšev did not even blow the whistle and the game continued. Láďa Novák, Pepík Masopust, everyone - and now our Russian was heard, because Russian was definitely taught everywhere in schools. And we started swearing at him, but there was no way that he would whistle a ten."

"When I played for the Bohemia club we flew to Colombia. We landed in Paris, players came to see me at the airport and coincidentally a fan of the Paris team came there. And when he found out that Jelínek Josef had arrived, he started jumping there, shouting that it was not true. That it's not me, that there is already one Jelínek Josef who pretends to be me. He also got a job there and he is working second there at the World Championships in Chile. And when they told me this, of course Pepík Masopust found out. And he found out that this maniac exists in Teplice. The guy went abroad and played in the French second league. But I have nothing to do with it. I was surprised that something like this could happen. Probably yes."