Over Sparta on the League Top
Mladá Boleslav demolished Sparta Prague and jumped over Liberec on the first position of the current ranking. "We wanted to get on the top and we have managed in it," jubilated the head-coach of Mladá Boleslav Dušan Uhrin. His counterpart from the Sparta's bench Stanislav Griga admitted that Mladá Boleslav was beyond Sparta's powers.
Uhrin: Tough and Interesting Rival I Look Forward to
Olympique Marseille, the opponent of Mladá Boleslav in the first round of the UEFA Cup is a tenfold champion of France, tenfold holder of the national cup and the winner of the Champions League from 1993. After three opening rounds of 2006/07 season, the club leads the French league ahead of the title defender Lyon. The club qualified in the UEFA Cup from the fifth position in the last season. The supporters of Olympique Marseille are renowned for their frenetic up to fanatic favour for their colours and, at the same time, hate with respect to their opponents.
We Have Got Olympique Marseille in the UEFA Cup
Mladá Boleslav will meet French Olympique Marseille in the first round of the UEFA Cup. Djibril Cisse and Franck Ribery are the biggest current stars of the team. The first match will take place in Marseille on September 14 and the return match in Mladá Boleslav on September 28. Mladá Boleslav was in the fifth basket among the unseeded five teams. The defending winner of the UEFA CUP Sevilla, Marseille, Besiktas, Heerenveen and Grasshoppers were potential rivals that could be drawn. „Whoever else but not Besiktas, we were in Turkey already, but it does not matter otherwise," said the head-coach of Mladá Boleslav Dušan Uhrin before drawing. The football God has heard his wish and sent the Mladá Boleslav team in the quite opposite end of Europe.
Kulič Called against Wales and Slovakia
The head-coach of the national team Karel Brückner count on Marek Kulič for the first two matches of the qualification group for the 2008 European Championship. The skipper of Mladá Boleslav is in nomination of the basic nineteen-player squad to those three more players will be added by Brückner. Kulič is one of four players playing in the domestic top competition.
Football Season Continues Also without the Champions League
The Swedish referee Hansson blew a whistle for the last time and the players could breathe a sigh of relief. Those from Istanbul with satisfaction while those from Mladá Boleslav with disappointment. More than four thousand viewers on stands stood up and thunderously applauded to the participants of beautiful football show. The applause was addressed to the Istanbul players for technically skilful playing as well as to the Mladá Boleslav athletes for tirelessness and tenaciousness with which they continued to attack the opponent's defence even at the moments when the chance of qualifying disappeared in unachievable remoteness after a goal conceded.
