https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/how-a-kangaroo-became-the-mascot-for-bohemians

I have a book about their tour and games in SA by a SOuth Aussie football writer 

Australia was definitely a football back water in the nineteen twenties so it was amazing that a team from a Central European country decided to make that tour.Also the nation of Czechoslovakia( as it was then) had only arisen from the ashes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire( Habsburg monarchy) at the end of WW1 though the Czechoslovaks had a national identity stretching back to the Middle Ages at least.

The tour is part of Australian football history  and kudos to MCG for bringing it up.Some people think that our code only really goes back to the NSL days but prior to this Australia has seen many overseas teams and clubs touring here.

The long gone SFC Prague, one of the leading Sydney clubs of the late nineteen fifties and sixties,even had the temerity to play clubs such as Vfb Stuttgart,FC Basle and Slovan Bratislava when they toured here .Prague was established by Czech migrants in the early nineteen fifties so again the two countries have a football connection.

Slavia Melbourne also had some huge success.

What's the name of the author?

It's very interesting story. I wish they had a few Aussies playing for them so I could follow them more closely 

The history of the club is quite romantic, especialy for Aussies.

Unforunately, some details missing from this article: TLDR... Czech football is a bit too shameful to take seriously and follow a club.

If you're not following Slavia or Sparta, you're kind of risking that at any one time, about a 3rd of the team you're watching is throwing a game for their booky. Or in the case of Slovacko, the entire club from top to bottom.

In the case of Bohemka, there's thankfully no dodgy betting scandal, but somethig just as shameful. So, the story of there being a Prague club witha kangaroo is great. The story of there being two clubs with a kangaroo isn't.

About 15 years ago, Bohemka got relegated to 3rd tier. Being one of the bottom clubs of top division is bad enough. Being in second div is urgently shit. Being relegated from there is death. Which is exactly what happened to Bohemka. Then a local businessman saw the value in the club badge for the simple reason that it's cool and decided to buy it and slap it on a completely unrelated football club with no link to the historical club. Said club survived a couple of years before being relegated care of a 15 points deduction for being such a fucking joke that it just... refused to play football matches.Against the club it bought its name from.

So, it ended in the courts with fan groups livid at their club being gutted like a trout and ultimately the original club retained its badge with a court determining that the name was 1. sold and 2. the person who bought it didn't own it (classic Czech bullshit, much like buying a house here). So, the club running around in the top league with that badge is indeed the original club. But now you can't really follow that club without someone muckraking about the whole thing. And in a nod to how seriously anyone actually takes this shit, the imposter club still carries the name. But it's dead ass broke and only fields a womens team. With the same logo and no relation to anyone or anything other than a cheque book.

If you want to watch Czech football then the TLDR is: 1. Slavia and Sparta take it seriously because they might be in Europe 2. Cool club with a kangaroo and 3. Banik Ostrava fans want to beat the shit out of you.

Thx bohemia very interesting.

Have you been following the team? 

On and off. More so when I lived in Prague and knew someone who worked there. Now I live on the other side of the country. The main club here has its stadium a few doors down but they're relegated to second division (and it wasn't all that enjoyable to watch them when they were in top flight). So I watch Leeds about 10 times more than Czech football these days.