Jiří Tichý (6 December 1933 – 26 August 2016) was a Czech

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly ...

player. During his club career he played for CH Bratislava and

Sparta Prague ) but refer to Spartans as "''Rudí''" ( en, The Dark Reds/The Maroons).'' Letenští'' , ground = Generali Česká pojišťovna Arena , capacity = 19,416 , clubname = Sparta Prague , image = Sparta Praha logo.png , image_size = 160px , fu ...

. Tichý won three championship titles with Sparta. He earned 19 caps for the

Czechoslovakia national football team The Czechoslovakia national football team ( cs, Československá fotbalová reprezentace, sk, Česko-slovenské národné futbalové mužstvo) was the national football team of Czechoslovakia from 1920 to 1993. The team was controlled by the Cze ...

, and was part of the second-placed team at the

1962 FIFA World Cup The 1962 FIFA World Cup was the seventh edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams. It was held from 30 May to 17 June 1962 in Chile. The qualification rounds took place ...

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* 1933 births 2016 deaths Czech footballers Czechoslovak footballers Czechoslovakia international footballers 1962 FIFA World Cup players FK Inter Bratislava players AC Sparta Prague players People from Prague-West District 1960 European Nations' Cup players Association football defenders Sportspeople from the Central Bohemian Region {{CzechRepublic-footy-defender-stub