As expected, Jiří Jarošík, who has so far led the second-league Prostějov, has become the new coach of Teplice. The former midfielder at the North Bohemian club signed a three-year contract. His assistant will be the former Teplice defender Tomáš Hunal.
Jarošík, 43, replaced Radim Kučera, whose club management called off 0-0 with Olomouc after Sunday’s league draw. The “glassmakers” are in the penultimate 15th place with five points. The club introduced the new coach at today’s meeting with the media.
“He’s a man from here in the region, which is also good. His assistant will be Mr. Hunal, who is a former Teplice player. They both have a positive attitude towards the team and I believe they will make a difference so that we can move forward in the table. the goal is to get out of positions that threaten the team from relegation, “ said the chairman of the board Pavel Šedlbauer.
Teplice has so far won only one match out of nine in the league year and has six defeats to its credit. As in the previous season, they have the bottom of the table. Kučera lasted less than 10 months as head coach.
“We expect Jirka to help us with better results. The performances have not been bad yet, but we don’t have points. I believe that Jirka will have a more positive mood in the cabin and hopefully it will be reflected on the field. he could be a rebound coaching station that could shoot him even higher. Jirka, as he is linguistically equipped, will have ambitions to go abroad and be a successful coach, “ said the director of the club Rudolf Řepka.
According to him, the contract with the new coach should continue even in the event of relegation to further cooperation in the second league. “I think this is also fair from Jirka. He knows what he can go into, and even if we went down we wouldn’t want to get rid of him. helped, “ said Rapeseed.
Jarošík is waiting for his first coaching engagement in the Czech highest competition. The former player of the Prague Sparta, CSKA Moscow, London Chelsea or Celtic started as an assistant to David Holoubek in Liberec and Ružomberok. In 2020, he took over the second league Ústí nad Labem, then left for Celje, Slovenia. Since the summer, the second-league Prostějov has led, with eighth place with 13 points. From there, he also brought goalie coach Petar Aleksijevič to Teplice.
“It’s a beautiful challenge, albeit a difficult one. However, I’m not afraid of it and I’m going for it as before in Ústí. I believe that I will start the team, it will turn around and we will play elsewhere,” said Jarošík. “The Teplice situation is not rosy for a long time and this year it is escalating. They had problems with rescue last year as well. First of all we have to recover, because every important player who is missing in such a smaller club is known. elsewhere. I believe we will keep the league and play it in a year, “ added.
Teplice reached out to change coach as the second major league club of the season. At the end of August, Liberec recalled Pavel Hoftych after unsatisfactory results, and Luboš Kozel took his place.
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