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

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player. During his club career he played for

CH Bratislava FK Inter Bratislava () is a football club based in Bratislava, Slovakia, temporarily playing its home matches in Štadion Pasienky. History Inter Bratislava was founded in 1940 by the Apollo refinery (later renamed Slovnaft). Following the end o ...

and

Sparta Prague Athletic Club Sparta Praha (), commonly known as Sparta Prague and Sparta Praha, is a professional football club based in Prague. It is the most successful club in the Czech Republic and one of the most successful in central Europe, winning t ...

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

Czechoslovakia national football team The Czechoslovakia national football team (, ) represented Czechoslovakia in men's international Association football, football from 1919 to 1993. The team was controlled by the Czechoslovak Football Association, and the team qualified for eight ...

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

1962 FIFA World Cup The 1962 FIFA World Cup was the 7th 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 between ...

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* 1933 births 2016 deaths Czech men's footballers Czechoslovak men's footballers Czechoslovakia men's 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 Men's association football defenders Footballers from the Central Bohemian Region {{Czechoslovakia-footy-bio-stub