Antonín Panenka in the jersey of the Vienna Rapid.
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“I have a season ticket from Rapid and my place in the stadium, but because I got a few more tickets from my friend Funki Feuer, I took my son and four friends and we set off,” he praises that former Rapid goalkeeper Herbert “Funki” Feuer never will not forget.
Rapid remained in his heart forever, Doll remained in the hearts of Rapid fans forever. Not to mention that the Vršovice football poet wrote one of the famous chapters of the Viennese club in the 1980s.
Antonín Panenka (right) with his son Tomáš.
“At the same time, I left for Rapid at the age of thirty-two, when they kicked me in Bohemka that I was no longer promising for her. In addition, the vocabulary, which consisted of two sentences: Gutten Tag and Noch ein Bier. At that time, Hans Krankl, who was returning to Rapid from Barcelona, was the football darling of the whole of Austria. That’s why everywhere Rapid came, it was written on posters that the home team would play against FC Krankl. After two or three years, however, the posters indicated that FC Panenka would arrive. That was a huge honor for me. The knowledge that people love me and my football was more than the two titles I won with Rapid, than three victories in the Austrian Cup or the Winners’ Cup campaign, where we got through Besiktas Istanbul, Celtic Glasgow, Dresden and Dynamo in the 85th. Moscow until the final, where we finally lost 1: 3 to the English Everton in Rotterdam. “
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Two great figures of the Viennese Rapid – Hans Krankl (left) and Antonín Panenka.
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No wonder that while Antonín Panenka was in the hospital fighting the coronavirus during the covid pandemic, Rapid fans hung billboards in the stands of their stadium: “Fight like on the field.”
However, when he reappeared in Vienna after a long time, everyone asked about his health and listened enthusiastically to the enthusiasm and vitality that emanated from him.
“Not to mention that I felt motionless like a flower without water. When I couldn’t move and play sports properly, I felt like I was drying up too. Now I play tennis, golf, football again, so I am satisfied and happy. In addition, I have been vaccinated twice, so I believe that the corona will give me peace, “he assured his Austrian friends and admirers that their old Doll had returned to them, distributing joy and optimism around him as much as he did on the lawn.
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Jubilant Antonín Panenka.
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And that during the four seasons she wore a green and white jersey in Hütteldorf, she was. Not to mention the goals he scored in Rapid’s service.
“With one I even won the poll for the most beautiful goal of the thirty in Austria and left behind such shooters as Krankl, Schachner, Prohaska, Hickersberger … And that their hits were worth it. For example, Krankl’s slalom from the middle of the field, in which he roughed between six opponents, stopped all fights, bypassed the goalkeeper and scored from a difficult position. But my goal in the last league round against Innsbruck in May 82nd captivated the fans even more. It was something they hadn’t seen before … We had to win unconditionally to win the title, and we actually shot Innsbruck 5-0. And I scored two goals, while in the second I outwitted the goalkeeper Djulič with a beautiful curve, from which everyone was in ecstasy. They poemed even more poems about him than about my Belgrade pentli, which is already twisted like a spinning wheel, “Panenka smiled as he watched in a forty-year-old video how he lubricated his opponent’s goalkeeper and not only Rapid fans were ecstatic about his goal and all the actors of the match, except, of course, for the goalkeeper Djulič.
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Antonín Panenka, a football poet from Vršovice, also imprinted his feet on the Walk of Fame in Monaco.
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Austrian journalists were, of course, very curious about Doll’s forecast for Tuesday’s qualifying duel between the home team of Rapid and Sparta.
“Rapid is strong at home, he will play with the support of his fans, who will drive him to win, so I think the victory will remain in Hütteldorf. Sparta is strong in the offensive, where it relies on the greatest talent of Czech football, Adam Hložek, but it is still vulnerable in the defensive. He gets quite a few goals, “Panenka dared to bet, but immediately added:” However, this is the first match, the progressive chances are, in my opinion, balanced from fifty to fifty. “
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