Related articles
Sports NewsSports News
Young Czech football star Milan Baros has a broken leg and will miss
Saturday's international against Vienna. However, Baros has joined his
team-mates in Prague and tells us why he thinks the Czechs are doing so
well, how happy he is to see his old club Ostrava on top of the
Czech league and how important it is for him to have another Czech player
at his club, Liverpool. We also have news of rising Czech ice hockey star
Jiri Hudler and Czech tennis number one, Jiri Novak, whose season is
ending poorly.
More
Sports NewsSports News
Only days after the euphoria of qualifying for Euro 2004, there was bad
news for Czech football fans at the weekend, when star Milan Baros was
seriously injured; his Czech team-mate Vladimir Smicer describes just how
Baros broke his fibula. Sparta Prague have lost to Liberec, just days
before their opening Champions League game against Chelsea. In ice hockey,
the new Extraliga season began badly for champions Slavia and favourites
Pardubice, who both lost on Friday. Vera Pospisilova ended the season on a
high with gold in the discus at the World Athletics Final in Monaco, and
canoeist Martin Doktor took two medals at the Flatwater World
Championships.
More
Letter from PragueThe Czech Republic's footballers - unofficial ambassadors to the EU!
You may recall that Radio Prague ran a competition earlier this year in
which we asked who you considered the most interesting Czech, living or
dead. Someone from our Russia section told me something interesting: they
got a few letters in which people chose the Czech football captain, Pavel
Nedved. As almost every single player on the Czech national team plays
abroad, it occurred to me that many people's only connection with the
Czech Republic might be that their favourite team features a Czech player,
be it Petr Cech at French club Rennes, or Patrik Berger at Portsmouth.
Indeed when Vladimir Smicer joined Liverpool - Berger's old club - the
fans had a song which went "he's Czech, he's great, he's Patrik
Berger's mate".
More
Sports NewsSports News
The Czech Republic's football team scored a comfortable and impressive
victory over Austria to continue their successful Euro 2004 campaign - we
hear from two-goal hero Jan Koller. The president of the Czech Tennis
Union is not at all happy about leading player Daja Bedanova's possible
adoption German citizenship and Slavia Prague have made it to the finals
of the ice hockey Extraliga finals for the first time.
More
