WC hockey | “Call the guards” is a thing of the past. Czech hockey players chose a different song to celebrate goals

If the Czechs score a goal tonight in their opening World Cup match against Finland, the song “Hoja hoj” from the film Noc na Karlštejn, sung by the band Walda Gang, will be the winning song in the hall.

When this was the case five years ago in Bratislava, the team around captain Jakub Voráček did not win a medal, the Czechs finished fourth. So maybe it will work out this year…

Coincidentally, Voráček is the player who in 2015 was the first to advocate “Call the guards” as a celebration of a Czech goal. Hit by Maxim Turbulenc polarized Czech fans. Some were enthusiastic about him, others did not like the laundry.

The second group included, for example, the 1985 world champion Jiří Hrdina. “Look, can’t someone from the Czech hockey association bring them another song over there in Finland? It’s terrible what they play there after a goal,” Hrdina wrote during the WC 2022 in Tampere and Helsinki.

“If they played it for you in a bar, when you’re under steam, you’ll start dancing too,” answered Voráček at the time.

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