Pavel Nedved

Pavel Nedvěd is a Czech retired footballer who played as a midfielder,  winning domestic and European accolades with Italian clubs Lazio (including the last Cup Winners' Cup) and Juventus.

Nedvěd was a member of the Czech team which reached the final of Euro 1996, he also captained the national team at Euro 2004, where they were defeated in the semi-final by eventual champions Greece.

Winning the Ballon d'Or as European Footballer of the Year in 2003, Nedvěd was the second Czech player to receive the honour and the first since the breakup of Czechoslovakia. During his career Nedvěd received a number of other individual awards, including the second Golden Foot award in 2004, Czech Footballer of the Year (four times) and the Golden Ball (six times). Nedvěd played 501 league matches at the club level (scoring 110 goals), and was capped 91 times for the Czech Republic (scoring 18 times).