Marie Ševčíková (20 November 1947 – 28 June 2010) was a Czech-Danish footballer who played in attack on the left wing.
[3] Ševčíková was born in the agricultural settlement of Lobzy, where her parents came shortly after the war after the expulsion of the original German population.
After the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, Ševčíková left for Denmark, where after some time she also acquired citizenship.
She started playing football in the autumn of 1966 in Slavia Prague, and at the end of October of the same year she won the 1st edition of the "O srdce Mladého světa" tournament.
[6] After the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops in August 1968, Ševčíková and another Slavia teammate Jana Mandíková decided to leave Czechoslovakia and applied for political asylum in Denmark.
She leaves for a year to play and coach at the nearby club GS Casabella Perignano, which operates in the second highest Italian competition.
At the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, Femina BK, for which Ševčíková and Mandíková played, represented Denmark at the first European and World Championships.
In the final, Denmark defeated Italy 2-0 when Ševčíková scored the decisive goal with a beautiful shot from distance two minutes before the end.
Ševčíková worked at the Kovo Rokycany club, where she managed to break through to the top thirty tennis players in the whole country as a junior.