quietly and takes the ball from you". Life After Sports Pešek retired completely from sports in 1934, working for the Czechoslovakian Health Ministry until being fired in the early 1950s for not being a member of the Communist Party. He died of cardiac arrest, shortly after his 75th birthday. References External links dataOlympics profile arfsh.com article: Karel Pešek-Káďa 1895 births 1970 deaths AC Sparta Prague players Association football midfielders Czech footballers Czechoslovak footballers Czechoslovakia international footballers FC Zbrojovka Brno players Footballers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1920 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Czechoslovakia Olympic footballers of Czechoslovakia Olympic ice hockey players of Czechoslovakia Olympic medalists in ice hockey People from the Margraviate of Moravia Sportspeople from Olomouc Czech ice hockey forwards Czechoslovak ice hockey forwards