Petr and Filip Rada: Collector will find father and son on Bravo Dukla cards

The company Legendary cards has delighted football fans and especially collectors with a set called Bravo Dukla containing cards of ninety players, eighty-five of them signed, who have passed through this famous club. And there are some real gems and curiosities to be found.

A careful scan of the list of players on the World of Cards website will turn up not only the two Czech holders of the Golden Ball for the best footballer in Europe (the world), Josef Masopust 1962 and Pavel Nedved 2003, but also the 1976 European champions, the 1962 world vice-champions and the 1996 European vice-champions.

And the observant individual may discover one more curiosity:: father and son. Former Czechoslovak international and later coach of the Czech national team Petr Rada, who now works as a coach at Dukla Prague, has his son Filip in the squad. And they both have a card.

There are four Radas in the squad. Also Karel, the 1996 European vice-champion, and Václav. “But they are not our relatives,” Petr does not expand the family. “A son is enough,” he adds with a smile.

With a Czechoslovak league title from 1981/1982, the last Dukla season in history, his father is certainly one of the club’s great figures. So is the son. ” He’s been at Julisce since he was a kid, fifteen years in the A team, eight of them first league,” his father points out. “I am duly proud of the boy,” he does not deny the parental relationship.

“And we were already together on the calendar for 2019, for the month of November,” he adds another value. “I have it tucked away, of course,” he admits.

He considers the ensemble an excellent idea. “It’s always good to remember players who have made something happen at the club and this has done that,” he acknowledges of the project. “I’ve bought a few, they’ll be useful as gifts,” he reveals of the cards’ other uses.

They were signed separately. “Me and my peers,” reveals the coach. Whether he or his son is more into the game, he can’t guess. “But that’s not important. I am above all glad that something like this has come into being,” repeats the 11-time Czechoslovakian representative. And scorer of two goals, in the 1984 European Championship qualifier in France, into the net of the world champions Italy.