JABLONEC LOAN ZELENKA TO KLAGENFURT
Jablonec striker Ludek Zelenka has joined Austrian second tier side Klagenfurt on loan until the end of the season.
The 34-year-old has been out of favour at Jablonec since Frantisek Komnacky took over as coach, and hadn’t travelled with his team-mates to their Cyprus training camp.
TEPLICE’S RILKE TRAINS WITH MOST
Emil Rilke could [...]

BAROS JOINS PORTSMOUTH ON LOAN
Olympique Lyonnais have loaned striker Milan Baros to English Premier League side Portsmouth until the end of the season.
The 26-year-old Czech international completed fitness tests yesterday and could make his Portsmouth debut against Manchester United on Wednesday.
As part of the deal, the southern England side have an option to buy Baros [...]

BRNO AND JUVE CLOSE TO KALOUDA DEAL
Brno and Juventus are reportedly close to a deal on the transfer of Under-20 World Cup finalist Lubos Kalouda to the famous Italian club.
Going into this week’s talks in Prague, Juve were supposedly prepared to pay no more than 65 millions crowns for the 20-year-old midfielder — well short [...]

ZDENEK POSPECH JOINS KOBENHAVN
Czech international Zdenek Pospech has left Sparta Praha to join Danish side FC Kobenhavn, signing a three-and-a-half year deal.
According to media speculation, the Copenhagen side have paid between 40 million and 50 million crowns for the 29-year-old defender, who captained Sparta in the autumn.
Pospech joins fellow national team member Libor Sionko at [...]

SPARTA REDUCE SQUAD FOR SPAIN CAMP
Ahead of a training camp in Spain, Sparta Praha have dropped several players from their first-team squad.
Milan Petrzela and Igor Zofcak are set to be loaned out to other clubs — Petrzela most likely to Dynamo Ceske Budejovice, Zofcak to Jablonec — while Radoslav Zabavnik and Pavel Mares are to [...]

PLASIL SUFFERS THIGH INJURY
Czech international Jaroslav Plasil looks set to be out of action for three-to-four weeks with a thigh injury.
As a result, the 26-year-old Osasuna midfielder will probably miss the Czech Republic’s friendly against Poland on February 6th.

JUVENTUS SET FOR KALOUDA TALKS
Juventus officials were expected to fly to the Czech Republic this week to [...]

EURO 2008 TICKETS FROM FEBRUARY 1ST
Fotbal.cz, the official CMFS (Czech football association) website, will begin accepting Czech fans’ applications for Euro 2008 tickets on Friday, February 1st.
Supporters will have until February 20th to apply, then, on March 3rd, a computer draw will be held to allocate the available tickets.
Around 7,500 tickets will be available [...]

WORLD CUP 2010 QUALIFIERS
EUROPE – GROUP 3
The schedule for the Czech national team’s World Cup qualification group was agreed at a meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia yesterday.
The games involving the Czechs are:

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH, 2008
Northern Ireland vs. Czech Republic

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11TH, 2008
Poland vs. Czech Republic

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15TH, 2008
Czech Republic vs. Slovenia
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH, 2008
San Marino [...]

On Monday Karel Bruckner announced the 28-man squad he’ll be taking to Cyprus for friendly games against Greece’s B team (February 5th) and Poland (February 6th).
As well as the still-uncapped Jan Simunek, the new faces are Mlada Boleslav’s Jan Rajnoch, Brno’s Lubos Kalouda and Dnipropetrovsk’s new signing Mario Holek.

GOALKEEPERS
Jaromir Blazek (1. FC Nurnberg, Germany; 13 [...]

HOLEK LEAVES BRNO FOR DNIPRO
Czech Under-21 international Mario Holek is leaving Brno to join Ukrainian league leaders Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.
The 21-year-old midfielder has signed a four-year contract with the club and will fly to Ukraine next week to train with his new team-mates.
According to unofficial sources, Dnipro are paying Brno a transfer fee of more than [...]