Part of Bayer Leverkusen’s impressive title-winning squad last season was Adam Hložek. The 21-year-old Czech international, however, did not play as much as he would have liked over the course of last season, starting only five games and mostly coming off the bench. Hložek did make an impact off the...
The final match of Group F saw Portugal snatch victory at the death against a courageous Czechia side defined by unfortunate errors. Roberto Martínez’s substitutes were the critical catalyst for Portugal’s winner, with Francisco Conceição guiding the ball past Stanek in second-half stoppage time and Pedro Neto’s energetic dribbling providing...
The Czech Republic will be playing in their seventh consecutive UEFA Euro this year after missing out on the three editions between 1984 and 1992. Having secured a quarterfinal berth in two of the last three Euros, they will hope to go one step further this year. Cesti Lvi will...
The rise in the financial strength of the top-five European leagues has led to a dominance of clubs from those particular divisions in European competitions. While you can argue that the rise in the quality of football played at the highest level has led to a ‘better product’, it has...
The Czech Republic enters this year’s U21 European Championships hoping to go one step further than they have in the most recent iterations of this competition, having not made it past the group stages in 2015, 2017, and 2021, and failing to qualify for the U21 Euros in 2019. For...
On Saturday evening, the Baku Olympic Stadium in Azerbaijan hosted the third semi-final of Euro 2020. The game was disputed between the Czech Republic and Denmark with the Danes coming out as narrow winners in a 2-1 victory. The match was quite evenly contested for the most part and Denmark...
A name that will ring bells within certain scouting circles, Adam Hložek has been playing at the top level of Czech football for a couple of seasons now – despite being just 18-years-old. In the Czech First League for none other than Sparta Prague, the league’s most prestigious club, has...
