A battle of coaching capacities, but also the return of the stormtrooper. Votroci are going to Prague
photo: Repro Youtube Hradec Králové /Miroslav Koubek will challenge Sparta already on Saturday
In Saturday’s match between Sparta and Hradec Králové, there will also be a match between two coaching capacities, which, however, are of very different years. Miroslav Koubek is the oldest coach in the Fortuna League. Brian Priske ranks among the youngest ever.
Hradec Králové coach Miroslav Koubek celebrated his seventy-first birthday on September 1. The former Premier League goalkeeper is proof that age is just a number.
Zdeňko Frťala handed him the scepter in Hradec in June of last year, when he was able to advance back to the elite with Votroky. Whoever expected that Koubek would have a hard time with the newcomer in the league was wrong. The team sensationally reached the group for the title in the very first season.
On the transfer market, interest in Hradec Králové footballers has also begun. The busiest was around Vlkanova and Mejdro. Falling transfers, it seemed…
Before this season, only one left the team, the more defensive one. Mejdr returned to Letná, where he started playing football as a child. Adam Vlkanova started the new league season in Hradec Králové. There was talk of interest from an overseas MLS, but none of the offers were convincing.
Speculations about the interest of Pilsen, Sparta and Slavia were the order of the day.
But Vlkanova started the year where the last one ended. And immediately in the first league match, there was great euphoria in the east of Bohemia, that is, actually in Mladá Boleslav. Votroci won over Slavia in the Mladá Boleslav asylum.
The Vlkanova factor, will Hradec recognize the departure?
“You fucker, no one wants you, no one wants you,” Vlkanova heard from Slavia fans. This alone will cause the midfielder from Vršov to not strengthen the club. After a sensational promotion to the Champions League’s basic group, Pilsen sought after Vlkanova.
Miroslav Koubek thus had to do without a key player.
Without Vlkanov, Hradec Králové has played four duels so far. One win, two draws, one loss. Fortuna is in seventh place in the league with the same number of points (14) as third-placed Sparta.
Even in his second season on the Votrok bench, coach Koubek proves that he is the man in the right place.
Only the replacement of the key Vlkan will be quite difficult.
“In Hradec, it’s on a modest basis. Everything works as it should. It is run by sensible people, whose number you can count on the fingers of one hand. I train the eighth league team, in those seven they gave me shit, not here. I am experiencing this for the first time. Management can find an interesting player on the transfer market with minimal resources. We maintain a sports level there, the cabin is excellent, the boys stand together,” coach Miroslav Koubek described the environment of the Králové Hradek club in the Tiki-Taka show.
Sparta attacks the record and looks forward to the return of the captain
It is Miroslav Koubek’s team that will stand in the way of Sparta after the international break.
Letenski cannot be satisfied with the results so far. They currently have five draws in a row, thus attacking Sigma Olomouc’s record of seven. However, Brian Priske is too proud of his performances he didn’t complain. He mentioned that, for example, in the match with Baník, the Spartans lacked luck.
The last duel at Letná between Sparta and Hradec ended peacefully.
Spartan fans can look forward to the captain’s return in Saturday’s game (19:00). Ladislav Krejčí is fit and should be available. He last played in the opening match of the Nations League against Switzerland in June.