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Instead of football clubs in the Czech Republic playing as much as possible at the highest amateur level, they constantly have preparatory and pre-preparatory periods. Isn’t that pointless?
This time, after some time, I will return to the topic of the necessity of changes in football competitions in the Czech Republic. Not for reasons of my own free will, of course, but purely for practical reasons. This time, I’m not going to focus on a pair of pro contests, but rather what’s going on underneath them.
During the past month, I spoke with practically all coaches of football clubs from Vysočina in the third and fourth league. And everywhere I heard the same sentence. After the end of autumn, in the third league, which ended on November 15, one floor lower a week earlier, all the teams continued in an imaginary preparatory intermediate block, which lasted until the first week of December, in some places even until the middle of December.
Whether one likes it or not, today football is simply a year-round sport, so that after the end of the autumn season all the jackets would be taken off for hibernation, this can already be seen in district competitions, maybe even in the lower regional levels.
But why just watch it? In Moravia and Silesia there are three groups of the 4th league with sixteen teams each. Isn’t it time to narrow them down to two, but eighteen teams? That is, similar to the third league, where, in my opinion, they play two inserted rounds in the middle of the week.
I don’t see any problem with the season starting here in August and playing until the end of November. At this level, almost every club has its own artificial grass, those who don’t happen to have one will definitely have no problem getting one. Otherwise, he probably has nothing to do at such a high level.
And I also think that it is worth considering whether the regional 5th leagues should have sixteen teams everywhere. Football is being professionalized at all levels, the facilities of individual clubs are being improved, and the management of the association should not look at it, but take active action.
However, if we go down the path where the clubs themselves will decide on this, Czech football will not move anywhere…
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