Evžen Rošický Stadium in Prague’s Strahov.
Petr Janiš, Right
The long-distance run, which has lasted for more than eight years, therefore continues, but the finish line should finally be in sight. Fousek originally announced that the final verdict would fall at a meeting of the FACR Executive Committee at the beginning of November, but now it has been postponed for another month.
“It is a continuous process in which we have completed the first stage by paying from our own resources the financial obligations that football had to the Czech Sports Union and the Czech Athletic Association,” Fousek summed up the development of negotiations about the legacy of his predecessors.
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Now, after paying more than 200 million crowns, the new football government must decide what to do with the dilapidated stadium standing in a very lucrative location above Prague. Unfortunately for various developers intoxicating with the idea of how attractive residences could grow in this location, but in a place designated in the zoning plan of Prague 6 for sports only.
Petr Fousek promises that a decision will be made in December.
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“There are still eight offers on our table. We are happy because we can choose, “the chairman of the FACR remarked, but refused to reveal whether he preferred any of them at the moment.
“The current situation and the ongoing negotiations do not allow us to do so. Therefore, we will not comment on the parameters of the offers or their weight, “he said diplomatically, but still revealed:” If we still prefer some of the offers, then they are from the banking sector. “
Čupr: Sparta’s offer for the construction of the National Stadium is the most advantageous for the FACR
Does this mean that the game is more or less an offer from Prague’s Sparta, which would like to build a modern arena in Strahov instead of the Rošice Stadium, which would serve as a national stadium with a capacity for 30,000 spectators and at the same time a national team?
At the very beginning of the negotiations on the future of the Rošice Stadium, the Letna Club canceled out with it and, through its general director František Čupr, declared that it was ready to invest three to four billion crowns in Strahov in the construction of a new stadium. “The Sparta offer is still part of the eight offers we are negotiating and deciding on,” confirmed Petr Fousek at a direct question from sport.cz.
“The fact that we freed our hands by repaying the mentioned financial obligations to the Union of Sports and to athletes was, of course, reflected in the negotiations. All the offers we have received are constantly updated and we want to reach a strategic solution, “he said ambiguously.
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