In the 2002-03 season John Welsh played only one game for the first team – his début match against Ipswich Town on 4 December 2002 in a League Cup fourth round tie at home – when he replaced Vladimír Šmicer in the 83rd minute.

Kewell was handed the famous number seven shirt, surrendered by Vladimír Šmicer.

At the same time eight new players, Sami Hyypiä, Dietmar Hamann, Stéphane Henchoz, Vladimír Šmicer, Sander Westerveld, Titi Camara, Eric Meijer and Djimi Traoré were all signed.

An example of his fallibility came when Houllier substituted the defensive midfielder Dietmar Hamann with winger Vladimír Šmicer in an away match against Bayer Leverkusen in the UEFA Champions League quarter-final.

Fowler featured as a substitute in the 2001 FA Cup Final coming on as a 77th minute replacement for Vladimír Šmicer.

A new age and comeback to the top began in 1990, when lots of young, budding players, including Vladimír Šmicer and Patrik Berger, were brought to the club, mostly by rich Czech-American businessman Boris Korbel.

Players for Slavia in the 1990s include Vladimír Šmicer ( 2005 UEFA Champions League winner ), Patrik Berger, Karel Poborský, Radim Nečas, who became the most expensive player in the league in 1992, Radek Bejbl, Jan Suchopárek, Ivo Ulich, Pavel Kuka, who ended his career in 2005 and Croatian player Slađan Ašanin.

However, he later made a number of saves, including a one-on-one save from Vladimír Šmicer.

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Liberal Party (, LS ) is a political party in Slovakia founded on 28 March, 2003 by dissident parliamentarians who split from Vladimír Mečiar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ).

Vladimír Mečiar ( born 26 July 1942 ) is a former Slovak politician who served three times as Prime Minister of Slovakia serving from 1990 to 1991, from 1992 to 1994, and from 1994 to 1998.

* Vladimír Remek ( born 1948 ), cosmonaut ( first non-USSR, non-US citizen in space aboard Soyuz 28 in 1978 )

Vladimír Menšík ( 9 October 1929 – 29 May 1988 ) was a popular Czech actor and entertainer, born in Ivančice, Moravia, Czechoslovakia.

Vladimír Špidla () ( born 22 April 1951 in Prague ) is a Czech politician, currently president of Czech social democratic think-tank Masaryk Democratic Academy.

Vladimír Remek ( born 26 September 1948 ) is the first Czechoslovak in space and the first cosmonaut from a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States.

Vladimír Remek was born in České Budějovice to Czech mother and Slovak father.

Vladimír Železný ( born 3 March 1945 in Samara, Soviet Union ) is a media businessman, politician and convicted criminal in the Czech Republic.

* Vladimír Růžička ( born 1963 ), ice hockey player

Vladimír Maňka ( born on 19 September 1959 in Lučenec )

With his spouse Karolína, born Klecandová, Ladislav had six children, among them Vladimír Jiří Rott, who – as the last member of this known Prague family active as an entrepreneur in Czechoslovakia – had to flee together with his wife after the communist takeover in February 1948.

* 1978 – Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.

* March 2 – Soyuz 28 ( Aleksei Gubarev, Vladimir Remek ) is launched on a rendezvous with Salyut 6, with the first cosmonaut from a third country ( besides the Soviet Union and United States ) – Czechoslovak citizen Vladimír Remek.

Changes were apparent first in poetry: the new generation of poets ( Bohuslav Reynek, Vilém Závada, František Halas, Vladimír Holan, Jan Zahradníček ) began as poetists, but their work is much darker, full of images of death and fear.

Founded in 1991, its leader is Vladimír Mečiar, who, as Prime Minister, led Slovakia through the Velvet Divorce.

Vladimír Železný sold CET 21 to the financial group PPF of Petr Kellner and today, TV Nova is owned by CME.

As of 2004, with the entry of the Czech Republic into the European Union Vladimír Remek is considered to be the first astronaut from the EU.

Vladimír Kotek is the university bursar.

The town is now home to a museum of the life of actor Vladimír Menšík.

In Czech and Slovak, the name is spelled Vladimír.

He is now a player-agent for Eurohockey Services, co-managing the agency with former Pittsburgh Penguins teammate Vladimír Vůjtek.

Although former Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar received the most votes in the first round, he was defeated by Ivan Gašparovič in the run-off.

He was a candidate in the presidential election held on 3 April 2004, and although pre-election polls had suggested he would come in first, he actually came in third behind former prime minister Vladimír Mečiar and Ivan Gašparovič, thus preventing him from contesting the run-off.

On the evening during the Christmas holiday, viewers around the Czech Republic who had tuned into to the regular evening news broadcast watched the newscast broadcast by the news anchors they were used to being jammed and interrupted by Bobošíková, a former face at Czech TV sitting next to Jiří Hodač, who had been appointed general manager of Czech TV amid accusations by critics that he was close to Václav Klaus ' Civic Democratic Party ( ODS ) and to the then director of private TV channel Nova, Vladimír Železný, and would undermine the editorial independence of the TV network.

Czech voters returned a split verdict in the June 2002 parliamentary elections, giving Social Democrats ( ČSSD ) and Communists majority, without any possibility to form a functioning government together due to Vladimír Špidla's strong anticommunism.

* 1947 – Vladimír Mišík, Czech singer-songwriter ( Blue Effect, Flamengo )

In elections held in June 1992, Václav Klaus's Civic Democratic Party won in the Czech lands on a platform of economic reform, and Vladimír Mečiar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ) emerged as the leading party in Slovakia, basing its appeal on the fairness of Slovak demands for autonomy.

* 1905 – Vladimír Holan, Czech poet ( d. 1980 )

The winners of the June 1992 elections in Czechoslovakia and new prime ministers were the Civic Democratic Party led by Václav Klaus in the Czech Republic and the HZDS led by Vladimír Mečiar in Slovakia.

The building was first designed in 1902 by Jan Vladimír Hráský, and was later remodelled by a Czech architect from Vienna, Josip Hudetz.

* Vladimír Remek – the first Czech in space and the first cosmonaut who wasn't a citizen of USSR or USA

Awarded 31 times to some Czechoslovak war heroes, to the general and later president Ludvík Svoboda, to the Czechoslovak president Gustáv Husák, to the Czech cosmonaut Vladimír Remek, Soviet generals and marshals and to Leonid Brezhnev.

Between 1948 and 1968 Czech poet Vladimír Holan lived in the so-called " Dobrovský ´ s House " on Kampa, often saying that the Blue Abbé ( a nickname by which Dobrovský was known ) would sometimes visit him.

Vladimír Neff ( June 13, 1909, Prague – July 2, 1983, Prague ) was a popular Czech writer and translator.

* 29 August – Vladimír Vašíček, Czech painter ( b. 1919 ).

Drobný defected from Czechoslovakia together with a fellow Czech Davis Cup player Vladimír Černík while playing at a tennis tournament in Gstaad, Switzerland in July of 1949.

* Vladimír Čech, Czech voice actor