“I really enjoy it, it’s fulfilling. It’s very nice. I think I have something to say about it and most importantly, I still stay in the football world. I am already preparing for the world championship in Qatar. Not directly, but as part of the study during the matches that will be broadcast by TV Nova,” he noted.
He doesn’t have a clear favourite. “There are many of them. I really do not know. Argentina is doing well. She finally has better players at the back than she has had historically. Defense always gave them problems. Messi has style. But there is also Brazil, which is extremely strong, as well as Belgium, Holland, Germany. It’s just a shame that Italy is missing. I wish it to Messi and Ronaldo. These are probably their last championships,” said Právu Ujafaluši before the event in Olomouc’s Šantovka shopping center.
There, among other things, he answered the fans’ questions and played an exhibition duel with the controller in the FIFA game, in which the esports teams of the national team and the local Sigma played it out. “I already experienced it in Prague at Slavia before the League of Nations match with Portugal and it was amazing. It’s good that something like this is being done, even outside the capital,” said the native of Rýmařov.
But the boycott of the representative nomination by the leading domestic clubs is a big disappointment for him. “In my era, it was unthinkable for clubs to ban their players from using a toolbox, especially when it’s before the World Cup and the players can then rest. The MOL cup, which caused all the hype, could easily be postponed by a week.
On the other hand, everything bad is good for something. Chances will be given to new players, for example Mojmír Chytil, who is now playing for Olomouc. I personally experienced him with the national team of 20, which I was a patron of, but at that time he was not played after a serious knee injury, he was just getting into it. However, he is now in full form and I am surprised by how well he can hold up the ball and also finish. He is smart and a mature player for his age. Unfortunately for Sigma, he will again be one of those guys who will leave like Kryštof Daněk recently to Sparta,” Ujfaluši pointed out.
He follows Sigma, from where he started in the world of big football, and if he is in Olomouc, he also goes to their matches. “They are playing nice football, they are starting to do well,” he praises, adding in one breath that he would like to help the club in some role. only if the right people were running it there. So it’s not realistic at the moment. I know they could have had a lot of sponsors there, but they’re not there because of someone,” he shook his head. However, he did not want to go into details.
He is also in contact with foreign clubs where he worked as a player. “Just a few days ago I was in Madrid for Atlético’s match with Leverkusen. After the New Year, I’m going to Hamburg again with my brother and daughter, on January 29 for their first match after the winter break, to show the girls where I played,” he revealed.
He only rarely plays football. “Sometimes as part of exhibitions with Real Top Praha and once a year at home with Sokol Stará Ves. Now I prefer hockey because I’m improving there, while I’m not anymore in football. And it doesn’t bother my sore knee. I drive on ice. In football, if you have bad cartilage, menisci, they suffer,” laughed the former great stopper, who has 78 national team starts in which he scored two goals.
