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...Rael Vodicka Memorial Washingon Area Girls Soccer Tournament was named in honor of the first president--and founder--of the WAGS League...
...world's championship and they were in an alcoholic mood. Happiest of all was hefty, beaming Manager Antonin Vo-dicka. "Everybody here?" he asked. "We could not find Marek," glowered the thinlipped man whom Prague had sent along to act as the team's Communist chaperon. But Vodicka was unconcerned. "Maybe he's in the train," he hiccoughed and stumbled in himself...
...until next morning that Manager Vodicka realized that Zdenek Marek, his tall center forward, had deserted team and country, the ninth member of his group to do so in four months. Two had stayed behind in Switzerland, and six more had vanished mysteriously after they took a plane in Paris, ostensibly to fly to London. What made matters sticky for Vodicka was that he had unwittingly helped Marek to desert. Usually he kept the team's passports locked up, but when Marek asked for his "to change some foreign currency," Vodicka handed the passport over. Moaned Vodicka: "This will...
Whatever happened to Vodicka, the Prague government made sure that the remnants of his team remained intact. It had already lost two of Czechoslovakia's championship swimmers and the chief of its women's contingent to the Olympic Games (TIME, Aug. 23), who escaped while competing in events abroad. Last week, after the hockey team was welcomed back to Prague (see cut), the government canceled its date to play the Racing-Club de France. Reason: "too many of our finest sportsmen sent out to represent the national flag remain abroad...
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