“Of course I’m very sorry. We only listen to the negations on all sides. There’s not much to say that we are positive, but I just think that the complex environment here for hockey is such that everyone is slowly afraid there. to start, “said Jandač, who as the head coach led the hockey players to the fourth place in the last five-round run in Pyongyang and as an assistant to Vladimír Růžička in 2010 he won gold at the World Cup in Germany.
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“Perhaps even the boys will stop wanting to ride for the national team, because they will always get such ceres … whether the boys or the coaches. I know there is not much to praise, but it really is not easy. The teams are leveling off and we are “they got some of the toughest opponents in the spider. That’s what the tournament is like,” he said.
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Summary of goals in the eight-final match Czechia – Switzerland.Video: Eurosport
Coach Filip Pešán’s team entered the Olympic tournament by defeating Denmark 1: 2, then defeated the Swiss 2: 1 after separate raids and the Russians 6: 5 in overtime. In the preliminary round of the playoffs, however, in retaliation, the Swiss lost 2: 4 and, for the first time in history, did not advance to the quarterfinals at a major international event.
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“If we win the first match, which we did not play badly, we are first in the group and avoid the round of 16 as we did four years ago, we have juice for the quarterfinals and we could play for medals. Four years ago we did not bring medals, we came across Russia , then to Canada and we left with our ears down, our heads down, we slowly climbed the canals that we were just unsuccessful because we didn’t bring a medal, if we move between four today and we don’t bring it, it will be written about it positively, negatively, again nothing “Hockey is leveling off, the tournament is a short competition, everything has to sit down. It’s very difficult for me to evaluate it, because I was at the Olympics and we didn’t bring anything either,” Jandač said.
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He found a positive in the tournament to win over Russia. “Victory over the Russians is always appreciated. Defeating them in any tournament is always valuable. I would probably see this, what else? Probably no one stood out from the individuals. Those leaders … It was very difficult for David Krejčí. I know him as “boy, as a person, I respect him immensely and I think he did a lot of work there. The fact that the tournament didn’t work out … is probably the one it is … probably the most,” he said.
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Pešán and the national team lost the first seven matches of the season, thus breaking a negative record in the history of the independent Czech national team from 2014/15. Under coach Růžička, the hockey players lost six times, but at the end of the season they finished fourth at the World Championships in Prague. In combination with the defeat in the quarterfinals of last year’s World Championships in Riga, Pešán’s selections ended the series of eight losses in Beijing in the first duel with the Swiss.
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“I’m not going to scold the boys or bark at them now. I really wish that Czech hockey would have some success, that it would break and everything in that environment would be calmer. If, God forbid, we ever brought a medal, the problem probably wouldn’t end there. “We can’t jump three meters high until we can do something once. We just have to look at it from a different perspective than now,” said Jandač.
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“I still feel such lust for everyone there. It’s still encoded in us that we’re going for medals, and that’s right, but the reality is on the ice and unfortunately for us the tournament has closed again and so soon that it will be evaluated as Of course, I’m upset about that, and I’m sorry, mainly because of the boys who went to China, they had to go through all the conditions as they were locked up here, we met them for days and weeks, some of them were maybe a month, “He reminded how the Spartans took turns in the O2 arena with the representatives who had to follow the rules of the strict covid protocol.
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He still regrets that he failed to reach the precious metal in Pyongyang. “History doesn’t ask. We were one step away, maybe it annoys all the more. We had to win one of two matches to have a medal. Plus, the Germans got into the four at the time. Even though they played well there, we thought “Maybe the Germans made Canada in the semifinals and almost Russians in the end,” he recalled.
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“It’s an unpredictable tournament. Unfortunately, I think teams like Germany are able to surprise in one tournament and burn out in another. The same is the Swiss, although I don’t think they would burn out in any way. But how many times have they performed? “We still kept some quality in that we were at least participants in the quarterfinals. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out now,” Jandač said.
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As now, Pešán did not have an NHL player at his disposal, but according to him, it is difficult to compare individual teams. “We had Martin Erat among the leaders at the Olympics, David Krejčí was here. We had a Frenchman at the gate, who was in great shape, but I don’t want to compare these two teams. Everyone is different, and if this or that was better, I don’t know. We went a little further, but that doesn’t mean we had a better team. The atmosphere in the team was also great. The character of the players and the team was great, I’m even more annoyed that when we got through the quarterfinals, we didn’t even they did not win one of the other two matches, “said Jandač.
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According to him, the Beijing duel in the preliminary round with Switzerland broke the opponent’s turnover from 0: 1 to 2: 1. “First of all, I think it was decided by the two glued goals we got. We entered the match relatively well, we scored the first important goal, but then these goals had a slightly greater impact on the players and of course the goals scored in the weakening. It decided At 1: 3, the play against such a tough opponent is relatively bad, “added Jandač.
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