2024-05-30 11:15:37
The pinnacle of Slavia Prague, Jaroslav Tvrdík, will not help the present chairman of the Soccer Affiliation of the Czech Republic (FAČR), Petr Fousko, on the subsequent election common assembly in a yr. He acknowledged this on the X social community in response to Fouska’s look on the Footcast program, the place the pinnacle of the FAČR spoke, amongst different issues, in regards to the home cup closing in Pilsen or the ban on pyrotechnics in stadiums.
Tvrdík known as the help of the present chairman on the common assembly three years in the past a mistake. Fousek instructed journalists that the affiliation below his management doesn’t must be ashamed of the work. He considers Tvrdík’s phrases to be a pre-election battle.
Good day. I listened to the whole podcast. And likewise the speeches of the FACR chairman on the preparations of the Czech Chamber for tomorrow’s FACR Normal Meeting. I respect your criticism and largely agree. It was my mistake to help Petr Fousko. We will definitely not repeat it within the elections subsequent yr. I’m sorry.
— Jaroslav Tvrdik (@JaroslavTvrdik) Could 29, 2024
Fousek talked about numerous subjects within the podcast for about an hour. Amongst different issues, he touched on the house cup closing between Pilsen and Sparta final week, after which some followers of each golf equipment entered the enjoying space, violence ensued and the police needed to intervene. Because the organizer of the match, the affiliation launched its personal investigation into the incidents. Fousek additionally talked in regards to the deliberate new stadium in Strahov or the whole eradication of pyrotechnics from stadiums.
“I listened to the whole podcast and in addition to the speech of the chairman of the FAČR on the preparation of the Czech Chamber for tomorrow’s common assembly of the FAČR. I respect your criticism and largely agree. It was my mistake to help Petr Fousko. We will definitely not repeat it within the subsequent yr’s elections. I apologize,” he stated Tvrdík in response to the typically vulgar criticism of one of many followers on the X community.
At a gathering with journalists earlier than Thursday’s non-election common assembly in Olomouc, Fousek acknowledged that he and Tvrdík final noticed one another a couple of days in the past. “I can’t argue with Mr. Tvrdík both in regards to the elections in 2021 or in regards to the upcoming ones in 2025. I’ve been the chairman for 3 years and I feel that FAČR, Czech soccer and I’ve nothing to be ashamed of. Now we have accomplished a number of work. There is no such thing as a doubt that some persons are already main a pre-election marketing campaign in the direction of subsequent yr’s common assembly,” stated Fousek.
“I might point out three areas which might be the primary a part of our imaginative and prescient. First, to be internationally profitable – we’re within the Euro, our different consultant classes are profitable, the golf equipment did properly in cups, we had a number of worldwide occasions right here, for instance the ultimate of the European Convention League,” he stated head of FAČR.
“Relating to home competitiveness, which is the second pillar, we are attempting to actively method the Nationwide Sports activities Company, the Czech Sports activities Union, the Olympic Committee, in negotiations about cash with the intention to improve membership. The third space is the restoration of confidence in soccer. We all know that we have now to struggle extra within the space of match-fixing, influencing matches. After all, not all the things was profitable, some issues are a protracted shot,” added Fousek.
He was additionally elected in 2021 because of the help of Tvrdík’s Slavia. On the common assembly, he acquired 106 votes, 15 greater than his opponent Karel Poborský. His four-year mandate will expire in a yr, and he has not but introduced whether or not he’ll search to defend the publish of chairman. “I’ve already stated a number of instances that I’ll touch upon this problem after the Euro,” stated Fousek.