EURO 2008 TICKET SALES BEGIN TOMORROW
The first phase of Euro 2008 ticket sales begins tomorrow (Thursday), on the tournament’s official website, and will continue until the end of March. Around 30 percent of a total of 1.1 million tickets will be available during this period. Ticket sales will resume in December, after the tournament draw [...]
CMFS LOGO BEING USED ILLEGALLY?
According to a TV Nova report, the CMFS (Czech football association) has been illegally using the Czech Republic’s national emblem on its logo, and may be forced to change it.
As one of its elements, the CMFS logo features a quartered shield. Under a law that came into effect in 2001, this [...]
NEDVED TURNED DOWN CHELSEA MILLIONS
Pavel Nedved has told Italy’s Corriere dello Sport newspaper that he turned down a multi-million pound contract with Chelsea over the summer, opting to stay with demoted Juventus instead.
“It’s true, I would have earned a lot of money, [but] something didn’t convince me enough,” Nedved said. “I’m not regretting staying. On [...]
GRYGERA SIGNS FIVE-YEAR JUVENTUS DEAL
Having reached a verbal agreement last month, Zdenek Grygera yesterday signed a five-year contract with Juventus, definitively committing himself to the Italian giants. The Czech international defender will join Juve on July 1st, on a free transfer, when his current contract with Ajax expires.
MATCH-FIXING: LIBEREC SCANDAL REACHES COURT
Another Czech match-fixing [...]
ROMAN HUBNIK JOINS FK MOSKVA ON LOAN WITH OPTION
Sigma Olomouc have loaned Roman Hubnik to FK Moskva until the end of June, when the Russian side are expected to sign the 22-year-old defender permanently.
“We verbally agreed terms and are now only waiting for Yuri Belous, the general director of the Moscow club to send [...]
LOUCKA REJOINS JABLONEC ON PERMANENT DEAL
Lubos Loucka is returning from Sparta Praha to Jablonec, where he spent the autumn section of the season on loan. This time, however, the 24-year-old defender has signed a permanent deal that should keep him in northern Bohemia for the next three-and-a-half years. Loucka will today travel to Cyprus, where [...]
SMETANA’S DEATH WON’T PARALYZE PLZEN
Contrary to reports in the Czech media yesterday, businessman Zdenek Smetana, who died on Friday following an apparent suicide, is not a shareholder in Viktoria Plzen, and his death is unlikely to affect the running of the club.
The 44-year-old was the chairman of the board of Plzenska Sportovni, the company [...]
VIKTORIA PLZEN OWNER SMETANA FOUND DEAD
Zdenek Smetana, whose Plzenska Sportovni company owns Gambrinus Liga side Viktoria Plzen, was found dead at his home on Friday evening. According to a report in the Pravo newspaper, the police see suicide as the most likely explanation for the death but haven’t yet ruled out foul play. The 44-year-old [...]
REPORT: KOLLER CONSIDERS INTERNATIONAL RETIREMENT
Jan Koller has told the French media that he might retire from international football after the Euro 2008 finals.
The Monaco and Czech Republic forward said that he had no plans to end his playing career, however, and that any decision on his future with the national team would be based on [...]
LIBEREC’S ANCIC SET TO JOIN SPARTA ON LOAN
Slovan Liberec midfielder Juraj Ancic is set to join Gambrinus Liga rivals Sparta Praha on loan until the end of the season. The Liberec website is reporting the 25-year-old Slovak’s transfer as a done deal, but according to Sparta spokesman Lukas Pribyl, the move has yet to be [...]