In 1987 and 1988, he was declared the best football player of the then Czechoslovakia. He also played abroad, playing for Strasbourg for four years, then for two years in Japan for Hiroshima and Ichihara.
He played over fifty matches in the national team and wore the captain’s armband in almost half of them. He also had this at the 1990 World Cup in Italy, where the Czechoslovak team advanced from the group stage, beat Costa Rica 4:1 in the round of 16, and lost 0:1 to the later world champions, Germany, in the semi-finals.
He is also a member of the prestigious League Gunners club for players who have scored over a hundred goals in league competitions.
Coaching sessions – and that there were
After the end of his playing career, he returned to Sparta and led it to two titles. Then he nodded at the offer of Strasbourg, which he managed to return to the first French league, and he is still a shareholder of this club. He trained in Japan and in the French St. Etienne. He spent a lot of time on the benches of teams from Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, where he also led Ronaldo’s current team al-Nasr.
He also trained the Czech national team, as well as the Gabon and, most recently, Lebanon. And in his very diverse resume he also has the position of head of Czech football. But that experience was clearly enough for him, and when the last leadership election took place, he stood behind the new boss Fousek, but he himself no longer wanted to run. “I didn’t even think about doing it again,” he told me at the time.
Icon of Sparta, but she doesn’t want him
It belongs to the icons of Sparta. As a player, he helped her to eight league titles, as a coach to two. In recent years, when Sparta was reeling from the devil to the devil and the search for a coach ended only with Brian Priske, who was able to restart the Leten team, Hašek’s name was often heard as the one who could lead the team out of a vicious circle.
But the situation is different. “Křetínský doesn’t want him,” says Ladislav Vízek, another legend of domestic football, who could not find common ground with Hašek for a long time. “I hated him,” explains the legendary football bohemian and technician from God, because Hašek was able to completely poison him with football in Sparta’s matches with Dukla with his emphasis and diligence.
“But now he’s one of my best friends. He was my best man at the wedding he arranged for me in Dubai. We’ve been playing tennis together for ten years, we’re a legendary pair, we go golfing together and when we go to play for the Sigi team, I’m afraid so that he doesn’t go to me right away, as he got used to me back then in the league,” laughs Vízek, saying that when he got to know Hašek more, he can’t say anything bad about him.
“He’s a clean, interesting person, a bit of a smartass… I can’t believe he’s a Spartan,” adds Vízek with a smile.
Vízek: He is underappreciated here
However, the Dukla legend is convinced that the local football environment is not very favorable to Hašek. “They say about him that he trains taxi drivers and the like,” says Vízek, referring to Hasek’s involvement in the Arab world, which is still considered weaker than developed football countries. “It is said that football has escaped him, but that is not true at all. He is well-read, he studies football, modern trends, he has an overview…” explains Vízek.
He thinks that the jubilant would also accept an offer from the Czech league. “But certainly not just any – maybe not Slavia, but Sparta yes – but Křetínský wouldn’t give him this,” he points out about the bad relations between Hašek and Sparta’s owner.
Vízek claims that Hašek is still ready to accept a reasonable offer, but he expects it from abroad. “Maybe he wanted to take the Slovak national team, but in the end they brought the Italian there,” adds the guy, who also played in the French league.
2023-09-06 04:00:47
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