Photos F2-6 Masopust , In the battle for the ball

Product detailed description

Condition: found, good

Provenance: Archive of Petr Feldstein , author of Football on behalf of Masopust

Dimensions: 9,1 cm x 13 cm

Wikipedia:Josef Masopust (9 February 1931 Střimice u Mostu - 29 June 2015 Prague) was a Czechoslovak football player and coach. In 1962 he received the Golden Ball award for the best European footballer. In 2000, he won the Czech Football Personality of the Century award and shortly afterwards experts voted him Czech Footballer of the Century. In 2004, Pelé ranked him among the 125 best living footballers. He featured on the UEFA Jubilee 52 Golden Players list.

Since 2009, the Most stadium (Josef Masopust Football Stadium) has been named after him. In May 2012, a statue of him was unveiled at the Dukla Prague stadium in Juliska, Prague 6 in his memory.

Authentic black and white photo showing the legendary Czechoslovak footballer Josef Masopust wearing the Dukla Prague jersey in a dramatic battle for the ball. This valuable collector's item is the work of renowned sports photographer Alexander Tóth, whose authorship is confirmed by the original stamp on the back of the image. A rare document of the career of the 1962 Ballon d'Or winner and one of the greatest legends of Czechoslovak football.