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Wednesday, 29 May 1963
End of Season European tour match

Czechoslovakia 2 England 4 [0-1]
 

 

Match Summary
Czechoslovakia Squad
England Squad

Tehelné pole, Nové Mesto, Bratislava
Attendance: 60,000; Kick-off: 5.00pm BST
Final twenty minutes only live on BBC (UK) - Commentator: Kenneth Wolstenholme

England - Jimmy Greaves (18, 81), Bobby Smith (46), Bobby Charlton (71)
Czechoslovakia - Adolf Scherer (52), Josef Kadraba (72).
Results 1960-1965

? kicked-off. ? minutes (? & ?).
 

Match Summary

Officials

Czechoslovakia

Type

England
Referee (-) - Bertil Lööw
x (-).

Linesmen - tbc

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Czechoslovakia Team
 

Rank:

 No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 5th to 8th		 Colours: White jerseys, white shorts, white socks.
Capt: Ladislav Novák Manager: Rudolf Vytlacil
Czechoslovakia Lineup
Schrojf, Viliam G GA
2 Lála, Jan     RB      
3 Novák, Ladislav     LB      
4 Pluskal, Svatopluk     RHB      
5 Popluhár, Ján     CHB      
6 Kvašńák, Andrej     LHB      
7 Masopust, Josef, off 43rd min.     OR      
8 Štibrányi, Jozef     IR      
9 Scherer, Adolf     CF      
10 Kadraba, Josef     IL      
11 Mašek, Václav     OL      
Czechoslovakia Substitutes
  Buberník, Titus, on 43rd min. for Masopust            

unused substitutes:

 -
 
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Averages:

 Age - Appearances/Goals - -

 

England Team
 

Rank:

 No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 12th to 10th		 Colours: The 1962 Bukta away uniform - Red v-necked short-sleeved continental jerseys, red shorts, red socks.
Capt: Bobby Moore, first captaincy Manager: Alfred Ernest Ramsey, 43 (22 January 1920), appointed 25 October 1962, effective part-time 31 December, full from May 1963.
fourth match, W 1 - D 1 - L 2 - F 8 - A 10.
England Lineup
  Banks, Gordon     G Leicester City FC 3 5ᵍᵃ
821 2 Shellito, Kenneth J. 23 18 April 1940 RB Chelsea FC 1 0
only app 1963
3 Wilson, Ramon 28 17 December 1934 LB Huddersfield Town AFC 19 0
4 Milne, Gordon 26 29 March 1937 RHB Liverpool FC 2 0
5 Norman, Maurice 29 8 May 1934 CHB Tottenham Hotspur FC 9 0
6 Moore, Robert F.C. 22 12 April 1941 LHB West Ham United FC 12 0
822 7 Paine, Terence L. 24 23 March 1939 OR Southampton FC 1 0
8 Greaves, James     IR Tottenham Hotspur FC 29 24
9 Smith, Robert A. 30 22 February 1933 CF Tottenham Hotspur FC 11 10
10 Eastham, George     IL Arsenal FC 2 0
11 Charlton, Robert     OL Manchester United FC 43 26

unused substitutes:

 -

team notes:

 Bobby Moore becomes England's youngest captain
 
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Averages:

 Age - Appearances/Goals - -

 
    Match Report by Mike Payne

 
    Match Report by Norman Giller

The first victory under the Ramsey baton, and what an impressive scalp.  Czechoslovakia had been runners-up in the 1962 World Cup final and included European footballer of the year Joséf Masopust in their midfield. Greaves (2), Smith and Charlton scored the goals, and Ken Shellito and Terry Paine made impressive debuts. A knee injury would virtually end Shellito's career within the year. He was a beautifully balanced player who could match the speed of sprinting wingers. His early retirement would be a blow for Chelsea and England, but George Cohen was - so to speak - waiting in the wings to make the No 2 jersey his personal property. Bobby Moore captained England for the first time in place of the injured Armfield. He would go on to skipper England 90 times, equaling the record set by one of his boyhood heroes Billy Wright (who had been his manager at England Under-23 level).

Source Notes

TheFA.com
Original newspaper reports
Rothman's Yearbooks
 Mike Payne's England: The Complete Post-War Record (Breedon Books Publishing Company, Derby, U.K., 1993)
Norman Giller, Football Author
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