Radek Šíma and Tomáš Hájek were teammates first. Best friends after that. And somewhere along the way, on the road, between matches, they became something neither of them has ever said out loud.
It started once. Then it kept happening.
Now the World Cup has brought the whole Czech squad to Atlanta, the semifinals are days away, and the thing Šíma and Tomáš have been pretending isn’t real is getting harder to leave in the dark.