Trivia
- During his youth career, one time that his mother, Ludmila, came to watch him, she was so annoyed about a foul her son had been on the receiving end of that she ran onto the pitch and beat the opponent with her umbrella.
- It was not only his incredible goalscoring feats that endeared Bican to the footballing public. During his time with Slavia, crowds used to number their hundreds just to watch him train because Bican's training sessions were often more like circus acts - and fans were happy to pay a few korunas to watch him. Whilst the rest of the squad practiced routines or ran laps, Bican would turn-up with a hamper of empty bottles, which he would proceed to balance on the top of the flat wooden crossbar, spaced about one foot apart. He then stepped back to the edge of the penalty-area, put down a bunch of balls and took aim. One by one from twenty yards Bican would knock the bottles off the bar with his shots, and on a good day - the story goes - he would maybe miss one in ten.
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