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OWNERSHIP  The English National Investment Company has sold its 61 percent stake in the Slavia Praha soccer club to the advisory firm Key Investments. While no details of the deal have been released sources close to the deal admitted that Key Investments acted as a mediator for unnamed investors.

LOSS  In other Slavia news the Prague team ended its Champions League campaign with a 3–0 loss at home to Spain’s FC Sevilla Dec. 12. Slavia will not continue in the Champions League but will play in the UEFA Cup next spring.
TRANSFER  And lastly Slavia striker and captain Stanislav Vlček has agreed to transfer to Anderlecht Belgium’s top soccer club. The transfer fee for the 31-year-old is believed to total some 20 million Kč ($1.1 million).
BERGER  The former national team midfielder Patrik Berger could return to the Czech Republic’s Gambrinus liga next summer. Berger’s agent Pavel Paska said that Berger’s contract with Aston Villa in England’s Premiership will expire in June. The country’s two top clubs Sparta and Slavia have begun gauging Berger’s interest in a possible return.
HOCKEY The national hockey team has finished third in the Channel One Cup part of the Euro Hockey Tour series that ended in Moscow Dec. 16. The Czechs beat Sweden but lost to Finland and Russia.
K-1  Bosnia’s Dževad Poturak won the K-1 fighting event in Prague’s Sazka Arena Dec. 15. Poturak knocked out Czech Roman Kleibl in the final bout. It was the second time that Prague hosted the K-1 tournament which pits fighters from disciplines such as boxing kickboxing and martial arts head-to-head in the ring.
RANKING  Five consecutive wins have boosted the national soccer team to sixth place in the world rankings as compiled by FIFA. Argentina ranks first followed by Brazil and Italy. The Czechs are the fourth-highest ranked European country.
OLYMPICS  The overall costs of hosting the 2016 Summer Olympics in Prague would not be higher than 88 billion Kč says the newest study of the city’s Olympic bid carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The study updates a 2005 report that set total costs at 136 billion Kč. The cost cuts were made possible by moving some expenditures among necessary infrastructure investments that would have been made regardless of the Olympics. The government would still have to subsidize the games with 25.7 billion Kč.
WEDDING  The elite Czech tennis players Nicole Vaidišová and Radek Štěpánek are eyeing a wedding in Florida the Bradenton Herald newspaper reported. Vaidišová the 12th-ranked women’s tennis player in the world has already filed papers for a marriage license with Štěpánek according to a local county clerk. This is Štěpánek’s second high-profile tennis romance; he broke up with Martina Hingis after a one-year engagement last summer.

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