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. so you think this is a nice talking to a soon ok well yes and no czech republic it's also about football the czech team became world cup runner is up twice their biggest success was in 1976 when they won the euros and in 1996 they reached a final again they produced stars such as navy or sid ski but. to name a few. and they qualified for euro 2020 again for the 7th time in a row this has only been achieved by a few other nations but checks are not precisely ecstatic about their team there's been a bit of a fall out with the public when it comes to the national team many national nash you say i am i thought you knew which did then i will still be hot your generation is just good box to do was generation was but. what has happened has checked football fallen from grace or is it

a sleeping giant. are they ready to strike again like in the good old days. is it back to the future for the czechs at euro 2020. i went all across the czech republic to find oh. let's start in prague the golden city one of europe's gyms everybody loves it not just tourists around the world famous charles bridge. it has lately also been popular with italian football friends. because into play here in the champions league against slavia prague the stadium was sold out which is not always the case when the national team toy i mean we did anyone says sell out the game with england which really wouldn't happen.

football blogger thomas danny says the current lack of euphoria has been growing for over a decade so basically once all the called iris and barash is. vets aged out there was just no one to lean on there was no one who would be coming through so there was a gap like a real gap afterwards after 2008. there is a superstar in key to czech republic success in the past in 2004 czech republic had the potential to win it. but the great greek wall is stronger and seen it the title. when levy a generation retired czech football entered years of depression it took until the 2010 for the czech f.a. to take action and to try fixing this. 3 years ago they set up regional dogs are now really focused on developing a crop of players that will be consistently able to deliver results and the man in

charge of these youth academies is not quite a stranger. do you remember of. course you do who could forget this. then she played with clare and elegance not many heads. and this is today what a make over he looks like a hit movie director rescript to check football. pitch in to do not. appear. to show the nods. to me. just before little. to do if you. like belgium or germany in the past czech republic wants to get back on track by professionalizing youth football. they want to create

a new golden generation like here in the western city of pills and. the local club victoria used to be a champions league participant. it is the home of former stars such as paid to cherish. and of today's international such as blood to get out into. the academy scout young talents all over the country very education does not stop on the football pitch. coaches psychologists and physiotherapists take care of the kids. they have to wake up at 6 in the morning they have to be good at school they like literally see their families for 5 days in a week and they are still 1314 so they really have to like kids to kind of survive here in the system for now though check football fans still have to do well in the past at the decisive qualifier against kosovo in pills and it's nostalgia for the good old days and players like tamasha lawsuits keep many not she not she was on

your menu which. you'll be hot you can go to on i was like. it's going to be some of the. many. victories that. you will be a part of. the. czech republic one against kosovo and qualify for the euro 2020 but we've already seen why there are football parties it felt more like people who were relieved 2 after the game only a few celebrated in style they are confidential and high but the rest of pills and had already gone home by then. support for the national team has declined what's it like at club level. to jr club from the capitalist to main force slavia prague the country's oldest club is back on the scene. i think

amazing like to go against but. they have returned to the champions league this season after 12 long years of absence. of a chinese investor and that helped. much more money. to go because he couldn't close to people starving or to. the merchant. so this. would put us into. players like so check. for young people. they know each other from the club and take their game also to the national team. but the only check team to play internationally to see them there is more money being pumped into the league but does that mean that the quality has improved in the generation we talk about from 19th players when they moved abroad. improved

improved and he brought it to the national team and played to very well for national team with the bigger salaries here the players are not so much he waited. 2 to go and go abroad. form and check stars played it. man united or liverpool today's generation at the likes of city or help the berlin good clubs but not the best of the best and if they play at home the quality is too low and there are even more serious issues. chairman of chick if they are among barber he's a very controversial man very unpopular among among supporters he's a former member of a member of the secret police so and he was also former referee he created net off

in other referees and they have big big power so the main feeling is people here ensure public. trust. chick football despite promotion or qualification to euro 2020. most czech fans don't believe this will change anytime soon so does this mean there is no football passion in czech republic. well there is. this is czech republic certain largest city on the border of of poland and slovakia the industrial town is the former still the heart of the country. local team bunny goes for some of czech republic's most passionate fans. it is darby time against neighboring rivals for the tension runs high it is the most important game of the year for.

former bundesliga player in 2nd. national but slough city of course he's from the region bunny it was his 1st professional team at euro 2080 scored the opening goal when czech republic be toast switzerland. said it would just give us a much better here is not only possible for ya but i thought of so just. about the . ghost idea bonnie one does big and does in here that you always gonzaga in the house and look be hossam you can make yourselves rock. people here don't care too much about the quality of the league or allegations of corruption but they keep the passion for football alive no matter what. money because the home of former star me and of goalkeeper eugene publica this is the national team strongest position public on thomas wright's league from c.b.s. . slobby of color and to make it for ox books kobach

vehicle for take. this if. it. is a it will be shown to pop it chicks to get out there by leipsic. but there is a highly rated talent probably the biggest asset of the czech team. 16 really mean . partick sheikh to be to be fully fit to be ready to be uniform for the european championship and what about alex klal the czech hair brother of luis the defensive midfielder was instrumental for the win against kosovo. they have been assumed to. know so starkly there and. follow it or not he had. just opened the door. finally there are 2 bonus the good players who already played at euro 2016 bloody meat of that you know from here it's a brilliant and big from hoffenheim because he's

a good at it's own home. villalba nerve block it was an english built from saga. with the game if you will feel. much of the world order in front of all. right so what can check republican euro 2020. 3 hope they will go even lose a little can do you off to do a group maybe quarterfinal to smack someone from my point of view which not so not most of all i think we're not going to be in a file long to be honest but i hope we will get from the group to play out the given gus on. monday. deaths in the we will be the 1st. learning trick less than one good luck the czech republic just tried scored the.

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