“Let me tell the Ukrainians at the beginning that I am keeping my fingers crossed for them. They have my great admiration, respect and dignity. How not to defend the Russians, but Putin. I would like to thank the Czech people. Helping Ukraine is a matter of perseverance, I wish it would last us a long time. I would like to take this opportunity to mention the quote of Oscar-winning actor Robert de Niro. Last week, he was asked in England what this war was all about. He replied that he was not fighting for democracy or freedom. That this is a battle between good and evil.
I’m going to football now. Namely for Sunday’s derby. I’ll go to the marrow, as usual. Not only in connection with the Prague S match, I have a lot of questions. The vast majority to Sparta. When I see the whole Spartan panopticon, I ask the club owner: It’s a joke, funny? Are you able to present this, offer it to the viewer? Does this really cost hundreds of millions of crowns a year? After all, it has nothing to do with football. How many points you have is a miracle.
Coach František Straka evaluated the derby of the Prague S and other events of the league round
I’ve written a lot about flight management. I would now like to ask him a question: Are you not thinking of resigning? Aren’t you thinking that this will be your greatest help to Sparta? You would untie the owner so that he can assemble a new management based on the conditions under which he appoints management to his companies.
Speaking of questions, I will continue with them. For example, the young Ladislav Krejčí. No offense, have you ever seen yourself on TV? When I see what you’re doing on the field, take a microphone there next time and do a show. Do you know that you can’t concentrate on performance at all? That you are eternally offended, hurt, you take half of the team out of the role of captain? Do you know that if you acted in a reputable competition, you would be thrilled to be in the stands? Because your lifespan, when you start in the starting line-up and behave the way you do, will take an average of fifteen minutes before the judges expel you or the coach replaces you.
I can guarantee you that if you behaved like this in the cabin of Liberec during my first engagement in Slovan, the experienced fighters Jirka Štajner or Bogas Pilný would literally slap you to wake up. It can be seen from your behavior that what coach Pavel Vrba tells you is not enough. If you want a professional analysis of how and what you play, I’m at your disposal.
He also talks and writes a lot about Adam Hložek, where he should go everywhere. He just wasn’t on the field in Eden on Sunday. I’ve written and spoken a lot about Sparta’s staff. I’ll just repeat that half the players in it have nothing to do. They can play football. But the club’s goals are so high for them that they are unable to withstand the pressure.
I will allow myself a small, professional nipple. There are three types of players. The first ones can’t handle the big pressure and expectations, they will wither. Others play under the same pressure and without it. And then there is the third category of players who squeeze the best out of themselves under pressure. These are the footballers for Sparta, for big teams …
In conclusion, I will briefly comment on the level of derby. On Sunday, I also played on the second screen of the Manchester derby between City and United. Then the hit of the Italian league Naples with AC Milan, finally the match of the elite Spanish teams Betis Sevilla with Atlétik Madrid.
I do not take into account what players can do in these competitions, their enormous quality. I’m looking at a speech, an effort at how these top teams want to play. The comparison with what I saw in Eden is not at all favorable. Like when you play a sci-fi shooter on a computer, suddenly someone lets you carve Hussites with axes and jugs … “
Josef Csaplár
Josef Csaplár is a Czech football coach. In addition to his coaching career, he also works in football as a television commentator and expert. He popularized concepts such as “Csaplár’s Trap” among fans and the media. His greatest coaching success is winning the championship with Slovan Liberec, where he worked with the experienced Ladislav Škorpil. He also worked for the national team under 17, his last league stand was in Zlín.
