The coach of Mladá Boleslav came at the press conference held in the elegant and purposeful press room of Ullevaal stadium in a smart suit while his counterpart Rekdal dashed into the press centre wearing a sweat through sport T-shirt and short trousers. Instead of conceited superiority, he was trembling with hardly hidden anger when he congratulated to his more successful counterpart on promotion.
The players of Mladá Boleslav achieved a very valuable draw in the Norwegian capital that is sufficient for them for advance from the second in the third pre-qualification round of the Champions League after home win. After the Norwegian champion, the Turkish champion Galatasaray Istanbul is ahead of them. Abrahám (sending off) and Palát (second yellow card) will miss the first match.
Marek Kulič is the second best after Radim Holub in the Mladá Boleslav shirt as to the number of league matches played and goals scored. They are friends and when they came in Mladá Boleslav in the last year, they planned to play together as forwards and to score many goals. Kulič looked forward to preparing chances for his mate while Holub to approaching slowly and steadily to the wished-for one-hundred-goal milestone of the league strikes. However, Holub was set back by a heavy injury suffered during the last autumn. His cross ligament in an operated knee failed so that the player had to pass another surgery again.
The players of Mladá Boleslav showed excellent performance like a big team in league opening. They struggled against their own fatigue, stubborn rival as well as a fallible referee. But they succeeded in overcoming all such obstacles. For all that, they deserved three points and proper ovation of the satisfied audience who also booed the referee out of stage with pleasure. Not only for his ordering a penalty against Mladá Boleslav in the first half, but mainly for denying the home team a penalty kick after the break.
At the last moment before closing the list for the second preliminary round of the Champions' League Mladá Boleslav got the twenty-five years old Tomáš Poláček from Sparta Prague. He comes as a considerable reinforcement of the left side of Uhrin's line-up just before the first match of the second preliminary round of the Champions' League with the Norwegian champion Valarenga IF Oslo. He attended the first morning training with FK Mladá Boleslav on Friday, July 21, at Mladá Boleslav City Stadium.
The official photography of player core group, realization team and FK Mladá Boleslav club management took place on Thursday afternoon, July 20, at the City Stadium. From the club management were absent the General Manager Jaromír Šeterle (health indisposition) and the member of the Board of Directors Aleš Juranka (vacation abroad). You can see the big picture HERE.
At the Wednesday afternoon press briefing that preceded the match rehearsal against the French team from Rennes, the coach Uhrin announced a ninety percent champion line-up. Compared to the spring there was only one newcomer, Abrahám in the midfield. He considerably changed the basic line-up only in the last quarter hour. At that time luck was not at Mladá Boleslav side because Diop hit the post and Keibo the crossbar.
The press conference of FK Mladá Boleslav before the beginning of the new season took place in the hot Wednesday afternoon however the air-conditioned interior of Prague Holiday Inn Prague Congress Centre was tolerable. As the introduction a short video presentation of the development of Mladá Boleslav Club was shown. Then the Club President Josef Dufek and the General Manager Jaromír Šeterle started the discussion about the events in the domestic football. The Sport Manager Zdeněk Kudela informed the journalists about the reinforcement of the player core group and the coach Dušan Uhrin about the sport targets. "They have to be the highest ones," said. In the answer to the query of one journalist if he means the advancement to the basic group of the Champions' League he said without hesitation: "And why not?"
The team of FK Mladá Boleslav has played eight matches during the summer preparation period so far and there are still two more to come before the players will line up to a sharp clash against the rival from Norway and consequently to the opponent from Olomouc in the opening round of the home league competition.
The players of Mladá Boleslav terminated the Austrian nine-day training camp by a match against the team of Graz AK from which they suffered the first defeat during this summer preparation period. "The team played four tough matches against top-quality foreign opponents during eight days so that we are satisfied with the course of the preparation period in spite of the final defeat," said the sport director of FK Mladá Boleslav, Zdeněk Kudela.
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| Europa League | ||
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| 3.předkolo: 04.08.2016 | ||
| FK Mladá Boleslav FK Shkendija 79 Tetovo | 1:0 (0:0) | |
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| 3.předkolo: 28.07.2016 | ||
FK Shkendija 79 Tetovo | 2:0 (0:0) | |
