What was the end of Horváth’s active career? Was he thinking about a path outside of football? “I can’t do anything except football. I would bone a leg and a shoulder, but I couldn’t make a living as a butcher. Nobody would hire me. Maybe I could drive a bus or a tram,” Horváth says with a smile. He agrees with his former teammate from Sparta Tomáš Řepka that the end of a career is half-death. “You feel that suddenly no one cares about you,” says Viktoria’s current assistant.
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As a player, he professed a technical, significantly offensive concept. In his role as a coach, he sometimes had to choose a pragmatic option. “Once, as they say, I parked the bus. In Opava with Sokolov. We lost the first two games of the season, we needed to catch up on points. Opava’s coach, my teammate from Jablonec, Roman Skuhravý, scolded me after the match. Dude, I wouldn’t have expected you to park the bus here like that, he told me,” Horváth smirks.
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But he was not laughing during his time on the Příbram bench. In the cabin he had a former partner from Sparta, striker Miroslav Slepička. At Litavka, they broke up badly. Why? “We were friends, but I was the coach, Míra the player. The question is, should I have been the one to tell him he was quitting? I was sorry, I like Míra, he is a good boy. But I couldn’t do otherwise at the time,” explains Horváth.
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