At the weekend, Slavia refused to let Jindřich Trpišovský join the national team, and immediately the alternative with Slaven Bilic also fell through. On Monday in the early evening, he told the Croatian newspaper Jutarnji list that he was not at all attracted to work for the Czech team. “The Czech Republic is not my choice,” said Bilič, among other things.
And so the attention of Nedvěd and the chairman of the football association, David Trunda, should have turned to Koubek. The server isport.cz was the first to report about it on Monday evening. Hopes for an agreement with the seventy-four-year-old coach should be high. Sport.cz sources confirm this information, negotiations are intense.
Koubek is free after the end of a successful engagement in Pilsen, which came during the autumn. It pays for an experienced strategist who has authority and who knows how to estimate the team’s abilities well and adjust tactics accordingly. In addition, it is expected that the opportunity to work for the national team in a leading role would be a great challenge and motivation for him. In the past, he worked for her as an assistant.
According to the infotbal.cz server, he wants Jaroslav Plašil and Marek Bakoš as collaborators. Bakoš was his colleague in Pilsen, in November Plašil helped the provisionally promoted Jaroslav Köstl as a substitute in a friendly match with San Marino and a qualifying duel with Gibraltar.
“We are working on getting a coach for the national team. I don’t want to comment on what is going on in the media right now,” said the chairman of the football association, David Trunda, to Sport.cz on Monday evening.
The tie for the World Championship, where the Czechs want to reach after twenty years, is inexorably approaching. Tomáš Souček and co. they will challenge Ireland at home on March 26 next year. If successful, they will face the winner of the duel between Denmark and North Macedonia in five days.
