Abstract
History of the Czechoslovak sports journalism is inextricably tied in the radio with the legendary reporter Josef Laufer. The article is devoted to the beginnings of his sports and journalistic career, and the organizational work that he did in the role of the International Secretary of the Czech Ice Hockey Association and as the official at the SC Slavia.
Laufer was an active sportsman as a teenager. However, his real talent and love for sports were fully demonstrated when he started to pass the sports experience to the others, i.e. readers and listeners.
Laufer went through the sports departments of several newspapers before he by coincidence got a chance to comment on a football match for the radio. He utilized his rich experience and abundant knowledge during his times in Radiojournal, where he was working for decades as an external reporter specializing in sports after his first successful transmission.
Laufer's actions in the radio were pioneering in many ways. He accompanied the listeners with live transmissions from the sports events at home and from around the world and has become a model for other not only sports reporters.
The most visible proof of the success of his work behind the microphone was the growth of Radiojournal listeners and the whole generation of sports journalists who have fallen in love with this job because of Laufer's reports.