Blog written by two Prague residents about life in the Czech Republic.
Petr Čech was named the best football (soccer) goalkeeper in the world for the year 2005 by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, an organization which has been ranking goalkeepers since 1987. The 23 year-old Czech plays in London for the Chelsea Football Club.
You can read more about Petr in an article on Radio Praha and in his profile on the Chelsea Football Club official website.
Congratulations Petr!
I previously posted about the new Czech high speed trains. They started running on December 11 and I wanted to provide an update.
* There are both first class and second class cars on the trains.
* Reservations are required.
* It’s possible to purchase a ticket online at the official Czech Railways Pendolino site. Right now the site is only in Czech.
* A special bus line has been introduced to connect Prague Airport and the Holešovice train station. The bus runs every 30 minutes and is free for passengers with a Pendolino ticket. Others can use the bus as well but must buy a ticket for 45 CZK. Prague public transport tickets are not valid in this case.
In one of my posts back in October, I wrote that customers are presumed thieves in the Czech Republic. Now I know why. According to the Czech daily MF DNES, the guards at an average hypermarket (a large supermarket) catch thieves trying to steal products worth a total of 300,000 – 500,000 CZK (roughly 10 – 20 thousand EUR/USD) every month. Products worth a similar amount are actually stolen on a monthly basis.
The group draw for the 2006 World Cup in football (soccer) took place tonight. The Czech Republic was placed in Group E with Italy, Ghana, and the United States. The Czechs’ first game will be against the U.S. on June 12 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.