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Fans of Zbrojovka Brno football players can’t take it as Christmas presents, ready to be unwrapped. But it’s easy to see that boxes for the transport of attractive cargo are already being prepared in various parts of the football world. In other words, behind the scenes, the names of players who could expand the ranks of the Brno team before the start of preparations for the spring fight for promotion to the first league flash by in January. In particular, the arrival of Petr Mareš from the Latvian RFS is on the horizon, Deník mentions other names in the article.
The transfer of the thirty-four-year-old defender Petr Mareš from the Latvian top league to the team of the leader of the second league already on Tuesday, the server infotbal.cz announced. Left-footed Mareš’s contract with the RFS expires at the end of December, he will not sign a new one, and his contract in Brno should only “hang” on the successful completion of a medical examination. He should strengthen Zbrojovka by the end of June 2026.
The Deník source talks about the fact that part of the six-month contract should include an option for a follow-up annual contract. In the past, Mareš played for Žižkov and Teplice in the Czech league, but mainly for Mlada Boleslav and Hradec Králové, so he is known in detail by both Brno coach Martin Svědík and Jiří Sabamoving from Hradec to Brno as head of the sports department.
In Brno, they can expect Mareš to strengthen the offensive on the left side of the pitch. In Latvia, where the spring-autumn system is played and the league has already ended there for this year, he has three goals and 13 assists. In five years in the RFS, he is decorated with 22 goals and 39 accurate goal assists. He played in the preliminary rounds of European cups, including the Champions League.
A similar “transfer manuscript” carries Brno’s alleged interest in the defensive player midfielder Petr Schwarzplaying in the Polish top flight for Wroclaw. He also spent four years in Hradec Králové before going abroad in 2018 and has been working in Poland ever since.
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Source: Diary/Lukáš Kaboň
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Match of the 15th round of the second football league (Fortuna National League): SFC Opava vs. FC Hradec-Králové, November 17 in Opava. (left) Schwarz Petr and Zapalač Petr.
He fought for the title with Wroclaw last year, then played with them in the preliminary round of the Conference League. But last season was noticeably worse, and Schwarz was also seriously injured – in a fight during the match, his kidney burst. He lost her during the operation.
Schwarz played for the national team twice, his contract at the club expires next summer.
Zbrojovka also deals with goalkeepers. What about the Hero and the Slav?
The most serious aspirant for direct promotion from the second league is also dealing with the situation in other ranks of the lineup. The Deník’s source spoke about the fact that Zbrojovka should have shown an interest in its pupil, goalkeeper Adam Stejskalplaying for Austrian WSG Tirol. Also, Stejskal’s contract ends in June next year and he is slowly starting to look around for another job, but it won’t be in Brno (yet).
“It’s nothing against Zbrojovce, but at the moment he would prefer to stay abroad,” a source familiar with the situation told Deník.
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Slovakian goalkeeper Adam Hrdina caught a stable high level in Brno in the autumn, but under the terms of the contract, he can be bought back every six months by Slovan Bratislava, where Hrdina came from under Špilberk. In the winter, Slovan probably won’t reach for their goalkeeper yet, but after the season it could be different, and in that case Zbrojovka would also have to “step” into negotiations about a replacement more vehemently. Would she then throw the lasso again to Stejskal? It’s not out of the question either.
The iSport.cz server reported that Zbrojovka is trying to acquire twenty-one-year-old Colin Andrew from České Budějovice. However, he would not be the immediate number one among the Brno sticks, and on top of that, České Budějovice want a high severance fee for him, according to iSport. According to this server, it is therefore possible that Andrew will sign a contract with Brno for the time being on a future contract and based on it, he will come for free only next year after the contract expires.
In the fall, the Slovakian Matúš Sláviček worked in the position of a young perspective goalkeeper with the potential to cover the back of the number one team. He started twice in the cup and then returned to Trenčín from a loan spell in Zbrojovka.
