Vladimír Martinec in February 2020

Vladimír Martinec in February 2020

Vladimír Martinec at the peak of his hockey career in 1976, when he became the best forward of the World Championships in Katowice

Vladimír Martinec as a trainer and his unforgetable cheeky smile

Bohuslav Šťastný, Jiří Novák and Vladimír Martinec (from left) created an offensive trio that became one of the legends of Czechoslovak and world hockey

Bohuslav Šťastný, Jiří Novák and Vladimír Martinec (from left) they met already at the Tesla Pardubice junior team. They could play together almost from start.

Vladimír Martinec and Ivan Hlinka, teammates from the national team, world champions, led the Czechs to Olympic gold in Nagano as coaches

Vladimír Martinec, the right wing of Tesla Pardubice, takes over the in 1973 award for winning the title of Czechoslovak champion in hockey

Hockey youth in Tesla Pardubice in 1966. Vladimír Martinec is second from the top on right

Vladimír Martinec (right) and Bohuslav Šťastný (left) at the beginning of their engagement in Kaufbeuren, West Germany, in 1981

Vladimír Martinec (right) and Bohuslav Šťastný during the Tesla veterans' match in 2005

Vladimír Martinec as a coach in Kaufbeuren with his son Tomáš and the famous jersey with number 13

Vladimír Martinec (second from bottom left) as a football player in Lomnice nad Popelkou in 1966

Vladimír Martinec as a teenager during a Tesla training in Sanopeš in 1965

Vladimír Martinec (bottom left) in a picture from the mid-1950s with his sister and two brothers

Vladimír Martinec in 1960

Vladimír Martinec (second top left) in 1963 in Lomnice nad Popelkou

Vladimír Martinec (far right) in the early 1960s with his friends in Lomnice nad Popelkou

Vladimír Martinec at his wedding photo in 1969

Vladimír Martinec with his wife, daughter and son in 1980

Vladimír Martinec with his wife and children in the first half of 1980s

Vladimír Martinec (quite right) with his family

Vladimír Martinec (quite right) with his mother, two brothers and a sister in a picture from 2003

Vladimír Martinec during his 70th birthday in 2019

The school in Ruzyně