First Ireland and after a possible win, probably Denmark. The Czech national football team knows how to make it to the World Cup. But it is more important to solve why the fans renamed Coufal to Zoufal, why the legendary Pavel Nedvěd became an embarrassing figure and why Premier League professionals forget about the standards there when they arrive at the national team meeting.
Victory over Gibraltar is celebrated in Olomouc. During the thanksgiving, the players go around the stadium, but miss the sector where the Czech national team has gathered.
“We didn’t feel unity today,” Captain Tomáš Souček, accompanied by Vladimír Coufal, a member of the team’s senior team, told the most loyal core of supporters of the national team.
What did the fans touch them with? That during the match they chanted: “Fight for the Czech Republic!”
If Souček et al. they didn’t play badly before, even so badly that they didn’t even beat San Marino, the last team in the world representative ranking, they wouldn’t shout it.
But the Czech football elite beat the smallest dwarf on the globe with a hard-fought 1:0. Moreover, with the help of the referee, who generously overlooked Coufal’s short-circuit in the form of angrily throwing his leg at the opponent after the fight. A red card is usually drawn for this. And the penalty awarded for Adam Karabec tripping his own leg was also a gift from the judges.
However, the general manager of the national team Pavel Nedvěd and other responsible people overlooked these sins, which cannot be ignored in a healthy environment. And those who were in management positions before them did the same thing for years.
Consequence? Some players have gradually developed an unhealthy ego to the point where they think they are not above them. However, there is no reason for this.
Do you think that Souček and Coufal would not go to thank the cauldron of West Ham United fans after the game? Of course, in the English football culture with tough standards for everyone, something like that would be absolutely out of the question.
Players working in top foreign leagues should help transfer these standards to Czech football after entering the national team camp through their own example.
So that he can improve. Instead, however, they willingly switch to Czech retrogressive comfort.
Would Coufal allow himself to go to a bar two days before the West Ham game with his friends from the team?
He wouldn’t even think of it. He would know that after that his stay among the Premier League elite would be over immediately.
But will he come to Hana and, before the pivotal match for promotion to the Euro, is he going to go out with a few friends until the morning?
When he and his buddies woke up in the morning from the incomprehensible party, they were defecating. But it didn’t last long.
The new coach of the national team, Ivan Hašek, gave them a chance. Did they deserve it when they let the team down like that?
According to Hašek and the management of the football association, yes. What else could you expect when Tomáš Neumann, a member of the FAČR executive committee, met Coufal and his national team friends in a company during a night campaign in Olomouc, and instead of kicking down the door with them, he took a photo with them?
Be it in Germany, England, but also in Austria, Norway or Denmark, the representative of the football government would have to immediately resign or be fired. In the country, the person in question could continue in a high position.
An unhealthy superego
What came of it? For example, an interview with Václav Černý, a midfielder who, with repeated “no-returns”, sunk the national team’s hopes for a decent result several times.
Most recently in a shamefully lost duel in the Faroe Islands. However, before the midfielder, who went through Ajax Amsterdam and the Bundesliga’s Wolfsburg, sprinkled ashes on his head in a televised interview after the match, he preferred to run away from the microphone with the words: “Go ahead and put it on me, the goal.”
Manager Nedved’s reaction? Zero. After all, we’re a good bunch and we won’t be torn apart by scumbags who don’t mind the piercings.
And so it goes on.
Coufal first returns to Hana after the unacceptable extempore and walks after the match explaining to the fans that he doesn’t feel enough support from them. Answer the question – where did he get such audacity? – knowing the previous facts, we don’t have to.
Only when the cup exceeded even the most intolerable limits did the head office in Strahov say boo, boo, boo.
“The FAČR executive committee has decided that Tomáš Souček will not lead the team as captain in the next match, and the players will not be paid the bonuses associated with Monday’s qualifying match. These funds will be donated to help those in need,” FAČR said in a statement on its website.
“None of the players stands above the country they have the honor to represent. And none of them is more than a fan who dedicates his resources, time and energy to support the national team. At the same time, the fan has every right to express his disapproval of unsatisfactory performances. The reaction of the players should have been the opposite, they should have thanked the active fans,” the association said.
With a cross after funus, he wants to be added.
Recipe from hockey
In the meantime, supporters can watch a demonstration of the incompetence and unpreparedness of the representative and union generals in the search for Hašek’s successor.
Now everyone knows that Nedvěd and his bosses had no idea what the new coach should be and what kind of football he should follow.
Reflections on Fatih Terim, the seventy-two-year-old coaching doyen who last earned a living in Arabia, as progressive reform leaders crown it.
Not really. The press conference announcing the appointment of bridge coach Jaroslav Köstl set the bar even lower.
Nedvěd had a very undignified effect on her with his speechless phrases. And when he said that San Marino was a tough opponent, the spectators watching the meeting on the screens had to fall under the table.
How can representational parody be ended? Instructions are offered by Czech hockey. What did Radim Rulík, coach of the Czech national team, say after the recent Finnish Games with a view to the Olympics?
“Whoever does not obey the system will not be nominated.” Otherwise, it’s not possible today. In hockey and in football.
During the golden Czech hockey championship in Prague, Rulík showed David Pastrňák on video after the first game after arriving from overseas the mistakes he made, especially when the Czechs did not have the puck in their possession. Pastrňák accepted it, obeyed the system and took care of the key goal in the final.
Why is Erling Haaland breaking scoring records on all fronts this season? He is better involved in the team press, in Manchester City and in the Norwegian presentation.
And because the leaders of football at the Vikings understood the same thing, everyone in Oslo celebrated in the square in a wonderful symbiosis with the fans Norway’s first World Cup qualification since 1998, embellished with a 4-1 victory over Italy on their soil.
A little postscript from Enzo Mareska, the coach who resuscitated Chelsea: “True democracy is not anarchy, but it has clear rules. It’s the same with the freedom of the players. When they have a given system, they get even more opportunities to exercise creativity. In anarchy (improvisation), no one can fully flourish.”
When will the people responsible for the Czech national team and Czech football in general figure it out?
