Dad led us to never forget that we are Czechs
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Dana Lukešová, née Pláničková, was born as the younger of two daughters of one of the best football goalkeepers in the world, František Plánička. He devoted his entire life to the club SK Slavia Praha, for which he played a total of 969 matches. He always brought up his daughters to patriotism, to which he remained faithful throughout his life. Dana Lukešová lived together with her parents in a villa in Petřiny, where she lived through the German occupation in 1939 and the unexpected visit of the Nazis who came to talk to her father. After the communist takeover in February, she left the Charlotta Masaryk Real Gymnasium, which was closed in 1949, to attend a junior school of economics, which she successfully completed. František Plánička was a symbol of First Republic sport and Prague‘s Slavia, and he and his whole family often had to deal with insults and accusations of bourgeois origins after the rise of the communist government. Dana Lukešová lived through the August 1968 occupation of Czechoslovakia in Prague, where she witnessed the arrival of Warsaw Pact troops. The Velvet Revolution brought her enormous relief, when the newly acquired freedom gave unexpected opportunities to her whole family. At the time of filming, Dana Lukešová lived with her family in Prague and often attended memorial events for her father, the sports knight František Plánička.
