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Dukla Praha is a football club founded in 1948 by the Czechoslovak armed forces during the communist era. The club won multiple league titles and nine Czechoslovak Cups, as well as producing iconic figures for the game — including Ivo Viktor, Zdeněk Nehoda, Ladislav Novák, and Ballon d'Or winners Josef Masopust and Pavel Nedvěd. The latter, the Lion of Prague, known for his stints at Lazio and Juventus and his 2003 Ballon d'Or, made his professional debut at Dukla Praha and claimed his first national title there.
The club reached the heights of the game, competing in the European Cup and the UEFA Cup, touring the United States to great acclaim, and enjoyed widespread popularity. But after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the club went through a severe financial crisis in the 1990s, their communist past following them like a shadow. In the 1993/94 season they were relegated for the first time in their history and, for financial reasons, found themselves dropped into the third tier.
Slovak businessman Bohumír Ďuričko fought to save the club by buying one of their rivals, FC Příbram, and in 1996 merged it with Dukla Praha under the name Dukla Příbram. New ownership pumped money into the club and they managed to return to the top flight.
Dukla have worn the colours of the city of Prague — red and yellow — since their foundation, shades reminiscent of other clubs such as AS Roma or Galatasaray. The club's curious history and the striking colours of their shirt gave the Dukla Praha kit a certain status in football fashion.
English rock band Half Man Half Biscuit, formed in Birkenhead, Merseyside, went absolutely mad for the Dukla Praha shirt — to the point of "asking for one" at Christmas. In 1985, the band composed a song called 'All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit'. The song was a big hit and the Dukla Praha shirt became a genuine icon of 1980s punk rock.
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