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August 2nd, 2006 | Current Issue

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The ČR's first rugby league team aims to muscle its way to the international stage

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  • NEDVĚD -
    • Czech soccer star Pavel Nedvěd has confirmed he will continue playing for Juventus Turin, despite the club's demotion to the second Italian league following evidence that some teams in the top division were involved in fixing games. The 34-year-old midfielder said he would decide whether to continue playing on the Czech national team in August.

  • DEBUT -
    • Mladá Boleslav, last season's runner up in the Gambrinus Liga, made an impressive debut on the European circuit, beating Norway's Valerenga Oslo 3–1 in the home leg of the Champions League second preliminary round July 26. Mladá Boleslav was scheduled to travel to Norway for the second leg Aug. 2.

  • TRANSFER -
    • Only a week before its Champions League debut, Mladá Boleslav made the highest value transfer in the Gambrinus Liga this summer, buying midfielder Tomáš Poláček from Sparta Praha July 24. Mladá Boleslav paid 20 million Kč ($887,000) for Poláček.

  • JUNIORS -
    • The Czech under-19 soccer team's campaign at the European Championship in Poland was halted by Scotland in the semifinals July 26. The Czechs lost 1–0.

  • ASSISTANT -
    • Petr Rada, formerly of the Czechoslovak national soccer team, has been named the new assistant coach of the Czech national squad. Rada, also the head coach of Jablonec in the Gambrinus Liga, replaces Miroslav Beránek, who resigned after the Czechs failed to advance past their first-round group at the World Cup in June. Karel Brückner remains the team's head coach.

  • RETIREMENT -
    • Darsalam, the most decorated Czech horse, will no longer compete because of a chronic ligament injury in his leg. In his career, Darsalam has won more than 9 million Kč in prize money. He was also the first Czech horse to compete at St. Leger in England, the world's oldest horse race.

  • DANCE -
    • Milan Baroš, striker for the Czech national soccer team, was photographed by a tabloid newspaper dancing drunk and shirtless at a friend's wedding in Řitka, near Prague, July 15. After a discussion with national team head coach Karel Brückner, Baroš said he would never do it again.

  • FINE -
    • In a decision made July 18, the Regional Court in Ostrava ordered Pavel Kubina, a defenseman for the Toronto Maple Leafs, to pay Extraliga referee Petr Bolina 400,000 Kč in compensation for accusing him of corruption without offering any proof. Kubina made the statement during the Extraliga semifinals in March 2005, when he was playing for HC Vítkovice during the NHL lockout.

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