František Plánička

František Plánička, born in 1904 in the Žižkov district of Prague and died in 1996, was a Czech association football goalkeeper and one of the most honoured players in the history of Czechoslovak football. He spent his whole career with Slavia Prague, a club that won the Czech league eight times and the Mitropa Cup once during that time, and he played for the Czechoslovakia national team. He helped the team reach second place in the Central European International Cup of 1931-32 and later captained it at the World Cup finals of 1934, where Czechoslovakia finished second, and again in 1938. He was known for his courage, staying on the field in the 1938 match against Brazil despite a serious injury that ended a career of 1253 matches in which he conceded 1073 goals. He was never cautioned or sent off, and he received the UNESCO International Fair Play Award in 1985. In 1999 the IFFHS chose him as the best Czech goalkeeper of the twentieth century.