Midfielder Tomáš Souček sovereignly won the journalist poll Golden Ball of the Czech Republic for the best footballer of the season.
Jan Handrejch, Right
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The poll, in which football journalists vote, has an autumn and a spring part. Souček had the upper hand in both. Already after the autumn, he led 256 points ahead of his club teammate from West Ham Vladimír Coufal, in the spring vote, which of course also reflected the performance of the Czech national team at the European Championship and advancement to the quarterfinals, he repeated the championship. For a change, with the difference that the second ended by 62 points behind him Patrik Schick, who scored five goals in EURO.
“Souček took a huge amount of work at the European Championships, even though it was not reflected in his productivity as we are used to,” said national team coach Jaroslav Šilhavý when evaluating the championship at Souček, the national team captain has been permanent since the autumn.
The midfielder of the Czech national team, Tomáš Souček, and his reaction during the EURO round with the Netherlands.
Bernadett Szabo, Reuters
Journalists thought similarly, so they generally preferred Souček to Patrik Schick. Thanks to five championship goals, he caught up with Vladimír Coufal in the spring, but he did not erase the shortage and finished third overall in the poll.
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Tomáš Holeš celebrates his shot against the Netherlands.
Bernadet Szabo, ČTK / AP
The biggest drop compared to autumn was recorded by Spartak Moscow midfielder Alex Král. He was fourth in the middle of the poll, but in the spring he was ranked 24th by journalists. He finished seventh overall. The opposite was Tomáš Holeš from Prague’s Slavia, who replaced the King in the basic line-up at the European Championships. In the autumn he took 28th place, but in the spring he placed fourth. He finished ninth in the overall standings.
Holeš also became the “Jumper of the Year”, as he did not get a point in the poll a year ago. At the same time, he is the highest-ranked player of the championship Slavia. Three places ahead of Holeš, the Spartan forward Adam Hložek finished in sixth position as the best player in the Czech league.
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Soccer player Tomáš Souček took over the Golden Ball from the editor of the daily Právo, Karel Felt.
Jan Handrejch, Right
Souček collected the most first places in the survey – 67, of which 44 in the autumn. Twelve journalists ranked Schick in the highest position, after the first three places Coufal and Vaclík took, and after one, Hložek and Darida, who as the captain of the national team ended their national team career after EURO.
The winner of the survey had another great season. He was one of the supporters of West Ham, which he helped to sixth place in the Premier League and advance to the European League, as the first Czech footballer to score 10 goals in one year of the Premier League and thanks to that he was among the eight stars to compete for the best player of the season. in the Premier League.
With the national team, Souček won Group B of the League of Nations in the autumn, in the beginning of the world qualification in March he flashed a hat-trick and at the last European Championship he helped the Czech team to advance to the quarterfinals.
The Golden Ball is announced by the Club of Sports Journalists of the Czech Republic. Football journalists vote in two rounds after autumn and spring, and the overall winner comes after adding up both rounds. At least one point scored this year.
| Golden Ball of the Czech Republic for the 2020/21 season: | ||
| 1. Tomáš Souček | West Ham | 1213 |
| 2. Vladimir Coufal | Slavia/West Ham | 802 |
| 3. Patrik Schick | Leverkusen | 740 |
| 4. Tomáš Vaclík | FC Sevilla | 435 |
| 5. Vladimir Darida | Hertha Berlin | 332 |
| 6. Adam Hložek | Sparta | 332 |
| 7. Alex King | Spartak Moskva | 286 |
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8. Jakub Jankto |
Sampdoria Genoa | 281 |
| 9. Tomáš Holeš | Slavia | 242 |
| 10. Tomas Pekhart | Legia Warsaw | 195 |
| 11. Ondřej Kolář | Slavia | 194 |
| Next order: 12. Lukáš Juliš (Sparta) 175, 13. Antonín Barák (Verona) 174, 14. Lukáš Provod 161, 15. Ondřej Kúdela (both Slavia) 120, 16. Jiří Pavlenka (Bremen) 94, 17. Lukáš Masopust (Slavia) 71, 18. Tomáš Kalas (Bristol) 59, 19. David Zima (Slavia) 52, 20. Václav Černý (Twente Enschede) 48, 21. Bořek Dočkal, 22. Ondřej Čelůstka (both Sparta) both 37, 23. Petr Ševčík (Slavia) 34, 24. Theodor Gebre Selassie (Bremen) 33, 25. Jan Bořil (Slavia) 32, 26. Pavel Kadeřábek (Hoffenheim) 31, 27. Filip Novák (Fenerbahce Istanbul), 28. Michal Sadílek (PSV Eindhoven / Liberec), 29. Zdeněk Ondrášek (Dallas / Plzeň) all 14, 30. Tomáš Petrášek (Częstochowa) 13, 31. Jan Kuchta (Slavia) 12, 32. Filip Nguyen (Liberec) 11, 33. Matěj Vydra (Burnley) 9 , 34. Jaroslav Zelený (Jablonec) 7, 35. Aleš Čermák (Plzeň), 36. Jakub Pešek (Liberec) both 6, 37. Ladislav Krejčí ml. (Sparta) 5, 38. Michael Rabušic (Liberec), Roman Hubník (Olomouc) and David Pavelka (Kasimpasa / Sparta), 41. Adam Karabec (Sparta) all 4, 42. Martin Jedlička (Dunajská Streda) and Jan Laštůvka (Ostrava) ) both 3, 44. Jakub Brabec (Plzeň), 45. Tomáš Poznar (Zlín) both 2, 46. Michal Kadlec (Slovácko), Ondřej Lingr (Slavia), Aleš Matějů (Brescia) and Lukáš Kalvach (Plzeň) all 1 point | ||
| (In case of equality of points, a higher number of better positions decides) | ||
| Order of the spring part: |
| 1. Souček 475, 2. Schick 413, 3. Coufal 320, 4. Holeš 230, 5. Vaclík 199, 6. Provod 154, 7. Hložek 146, 8. Barák 116, 9. Kolář 99, 10. Kúdela 84, 11. Darida 67. |
| Order of the autumn part: |
| 1. Souček 738, 2. Coufal 482, 3. Schick 327, 4. Král 280, 5. Darida 265, 6. Jankto 242, 7. Vaclík 236, 8. Hložek 186, 9. Juliš 175, 10. Pekhart 128, 11. Wheeler 95. |
| Winners by number of triumphs: |
| 12 – Petr Cech |
| 6 – Pavel Nedvěd |
| 2 – Tomas Soucek |
| 1 – Jiří Němec, Patrik Berger, Tomáš Rosický, David Lafata, Tomáš Vaclík. |
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