LITVÍNOV – After a month, the Litvínov hockey players got a win in the extra league, but a large part of the fans at the Ivan Hlinka Stadium did not enjoy it with the players.
After the first period, with the score 1:3, they emptied the “cauldron” on the South Stand, where they hung up banners in Polish directed against the majority Polish owner of the club, Orlen Unipetrol. He announced in the summer that he will quit the club after the next season.
“As loyal fans, we currently feel that the club’s management is not responding to current problems, or at least does not adequately communicate how to solve them, e.g. the dismissal of head coach Michal Broš without adequate compensation. We assume that the inaction is connected to the inaction of the majority shareholder, who still holds the decision-making majority in the club’s board of directors.” said the fans on Facebook, where they explained the reasons for their planned “strike”.
Business for the club, everything for the fans
In the second period, they told the owners that for them the club is a business, while for the fans it is everything. In the third, they were asked what will be left after them and whether this year’s celebration of the 80th anniversary of the club’s founding will include a funeral.
“We care about both the future of the club and its current position in the table,” said the fans, some of whom moved to the opposite sector in the stadium, where they watched the rest of the match.
Litvínov was able to turn the game around in sometimes intimate surroundings and win 4:3 in overtime. After Ondřej Kaše’s decisive hit, the fans celebrated the win wildly. “We knew that something would probably come, so we adjusted in the dressing room before the game. We lived as a substitute and I didn’t notice it at all, to tell the truth. We knew that we had to live on the substitute, no matter what. And I dare to say that for the most part we succeeded.” said Kaše.
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- VIDEO: Facebook/Ropáci on Tour zs – Official fan club of Lithuanian hockey
- Source: CTK
