However, the European vice-champion from 1996 does not want to complain. “I didn’t mind it myself, I like working with young players, but there was a lack of consistency in order to preserve the second league,” admits the coach, who didn’t stay out of work for long. This time he has the task of getting Viktoria Žižkov to the second league.
However, he enjoyed working with young footballers while working at the summer club. “Sparta is a talent factory, the players have a maximum of two and a half years to establish themselves, and now they have to leave, other teenagers are already pressing on them. I like that, it’s a really competitive environment that works,” he recalls with joy.
Contemporary Sparta through the eyes of Michal Hornák, contribution from the Přímák showVideo: Sport.cz
However, working for the reserve team also brings obligations towards the first team. “I’ve also experienced bad performances from players who came from the A team, and I had to replace them, for example, but I don’t think they would get away with it, it just didn’t suit them, or they underestimated it,” Horňák recalls, adding that in such in this case, it was also necessary to work with the young players of the B-team, who were sensitive to such situations.
Horňák’s children in the league, contribution from the program PřímákVideo: Sport.cz
“We, as the implementation team, were prepared for the arrivals from the A-team from the beginning and we tried to prepare the young players for it, but of course the eighteen-year-old boy who comes from the youth team, where he was a leading personality and played all the matches, so he is not ready for that. And even if he is told that, it can be an uncomfortable situation for him,” explains the former defender.
You can find more in the video from the program Přímák.
