1976 European Championship semifinals with Holland (left) and the joy after the winning final match with the Germans (right); from the book Solo for a Doll

Antonín Panenka with the popular comedians Šimek, Sobota and Nárožný (bottom right); from the book Solo for Panenka

In the Bohemians jersey during league matches; from the book Solo for Panenka

Antonín Panenka with the ball before the penalty kick, with his teammate Ladislav Vízek, with his mother Antonia and with his wife Vlasta, daughter Martina and son Tomáš; from the book Solo for Panenka

Antonín Panenka with the then chairman of ČSTV Antonín Himl (top left), with a trophy for the best footballer in Czechoslovakia in 1980 and saying goodbye the Bohemians jersey during the match before the transfer to Rapid Vienna in 1981; from the book Solo for Panenka

With teammates from the national team and Bohemians team Zdeněk Hruška and Přemysl Bičovský; below is Panenka during a match with the Soviet Union in 1981 (1: 1), after which Czechoslovakia advanced to the 1982 World Cup in Spain; from the book Solo for Panenka

With his father, 1950s

Antonín Panenka (second from top left) as a youth player Bohemians

Antonín Panenka (far left) with his teammates from the team of older pupils, some were even two heads taller

Antonín Panenka (second from left) with his father and older brothers

Hugo Poláček (1872 - 1943), Pet's grandfather, was murdered in Auschwitz. Photographed in Prague, around 1934

Wilhelmína (Mína) Poláčková, née Lustigová (1880 - 1943), Petr's aunt, was murdered in Auschwitz. Photographed in Prague, around 1934

Milena Steuer, née Poláčková (1901 - 1981), Petr's aunt who emigrated to Latin America in 1940

Věra Saxlová and Leoš Poláček, Petr's future parents. Špindlerův Mlýn, 1934

Family photograph taken at the occasion of Petr's parents' wedding. The newlyweds, Věra a Leoš Poláček, top row, fifth and fourth from the right; Zdena Picková, Leoš' sister, second from right; Hugo Poláček, Leoš' father, centre; his mother Mína. Estate in Šibice by Nymburk, 1935

From the left: Eliška Saxlová, Petr' grandmother, Věra Poláčková, Petr's mother, and Petr himself. Drasty by Klecany, 1936

Leoš Poláček, with his legs weakened by polio. Mcely, 1936

Leoš Poláček, witness' father, is using a cane, his leg is paralysed due to polio. . At the rented property in Šibice near Nymburk, 1936

Věra Poláčková, Petr's mother. Špindlerův Mlýn, 1947

Petr Poláček, contemporary portrait. Prague, 1948

Petr Poláček is standing on the right from his best friend Pavel (top row, in white shirt); photograph from the first year of the basic school at the Jiří of Lobkowicz square. Prague, 1948

Petr (left) with his friends Pavel and Kitty are playing at the Hagibor playground, the only place where Jewish children were allowed to play. Prague, 1940

Petr's aunt, Zdena Picková, with her husband Richi. Colombia, around 1943

Petr's grndmothr Eliška (right) and her sister Irma (left). Prague, 1952

Petr (top row, fifth from left) with his wife Maruja (sitting on the lawn) at a family reunion in Ždáň. Slapy, 2016