The chairman of the board of directors of football club Slavia Jaroslav Tvrdík promised the new owner Pavlo Tykač that he and coach Jindřich Trpišovský will stay at the Prague club for at least another five years.
In the Total Podcast on websites Slavie also said that Tykač is considering expanding the capacity of the stadium in Eden to 32,000 seats. He indirectly confirmed that one of the richest Czechs bought Slavia from the Chinese group CITIC Group for almost two billion crowns.
“If the club will change the goals and the owner does not wish to recall and replace me, I consider it necessary to keep what I promised him to buy the club. This means that I will lead the club for another five years. I also greatly appreciate that from the very beginning Jindřich Trpišovský approached this,” said Tvrdík.
“Jindra and assistant Zdeněk Houštecký nodded to it. That’s why discussions about Jindra joining the national team were pointless. All three of us agreed that we are willing to fundamentally connect our working lives with the future of Slavia in this way,” added the fifty-five-year-old official.
He is pleased that Tykač, as a big fan of Slavia, has declared that he will never sell the Vršovice club. He indicated how much the owner of the energy and coal company Sev.en Energy bought it from the Chinese. “The amount speculated about, that means less than two billion, if I don’t say it exactly, is plus or minus true. I think it’s a win-win story. The seller is satisfied, who certainly had a successful experience with the club. He got the funds back , which he put into the club. He is handing it over to the owner, who he is convinced will continue to develop it. The buyer is satisfied,” said Tvrdík.
The 20,000-thousand stadium in Eden could accommodate many more fans in the future. “So far, it appears that the option of expanding to 32,000 is still realistic. And that it would be realistic within five years,” Tvrdík pointed out. “Of course, filling the stadium with 32,000 fans, not for some, but for all matches, is a big challenge. For the whole club, for football, the club’s marketing and of course for all fans to start coming to Slavia in disproportionately larger numbers,” added the former defense minister , according to which the reconstruction could take place even without closing the stadium.
2024-01-25 22:07:40
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