V�clav Ma?ek is a Czech football player who played as a striker. He was a member of the Czechoslovakia national football team, for which he played 16 matches and scored 5 goals. In Czechoslovakia, he played 313 league matches and scored 127 goals for Sparta Prague. He was a participant in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, where his country were runners up, losing to Brazil in the final. In a match against Mexico, he became famous for scoring a goal after only 16 seconds of play, the fastest goal in World Cup history until forty years later, when his record was beaten by Hakan ?�k�r of Turkey, by scoring after 11 seconds in the 3rd place match of the 2002 FIFA World Cup. [More at Wikipedia]

March 21st, 1941 in Prague (Age 83)