Monument to the XNUMXst football match in Bohemia.

On the island in Roudnice nad Labem, a monument was unveiled in 1997 at the place where the first football match in Bohemia was played on September 29, 1887 between the local Sokol and rowers from the Czech Athletic Club. Allegedly, the credit for this first football match went to a gym teacher from the Roudnice gymnasium, who got to know football abroad. A few years later, football began to be played in the Czech Republic. Clubs were created in Prague...