Old photos often hide unexpected details. Surprises that sometimes come into view almost at the first glance and at others, require closer observation. It is difficult for a Txuri Urdin fan to look at a badge with the Royal's shield, even if it appears on the most unexpected lapel. For example, that of a victim from Auschwitz.
The Twitter account of the Concentration Camp Memorial published on Tuesday the photo of Jiri
Popper, murdered by the Nazis at age 20. Born in Prague in 1923, in July 1943 he was deported with his parents Karel and Marie
Popperová from the Czech capital to the Terezín ghetto, about 60 kilometers away, as well as some 150,000 people. Two months later, the three were transferred to Auschwitz along with 2,480 other people, of whom only 32 survived.
The Memorial wanted to remember Popper and the et tweet ’was soon filled with comments from curious realists. Why is he wearing a Real pin? There is no clear explanation, but there is a more or less convincing theory, put forward by the club itself. On Christmas Day in 1923, the Txuri Urdin group received the Deutscher from Prague in Atotxa, a team made up mainly of Jewish players. The match ended with the result of 1-3, although a day later the Real managed to prevail 3-0.
In 1924, the royalists, led by the Hungarian Lippo
Hertzka, returned a visit to Prague, as part of a tour he was doing through several countries in central Europe (Germany or Hungary, among others). The result was 11-1.
Thus, the most solid theory would be that the Royal would present the footballers of that Deutscher in Prague, who currently plays in U-20 categories, with club insignia and that some of them end up in Popper's lapel, born precisely the same year in which the two meetings of Atotxa were played. 97 years after that event, chance and new technologies came together to reveal this story to the Txuri Urdin fans.