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Martin Frýdek (footballer, Born 1992)
Martin Frýdek (born 24 March 1992) is a Czech footballer who plays as a defender for Super League Greece club Aris. Club career On 9 January 2013, Frýdek moved from Sparta Prague to Slovan Liberec with David Pavelka, with midfielder Lukáš Vácha going in the opposite direction for 15 million CZK. Frýdek was part of Slovan Liberec squad for 2013–14 UEFA Europa League group stage matches. Frýdek returned to Sparta Prague in July 2015 as part of a swap transfer with Jan Sýkora. In March 2016 Frýdek scored the opening goal in the round of 16 first leg of the Europa League match against Lazio, which ended in a 1–1 draw, describing it as "the most beautiful goal I've ever scored". In a May 2016 league game against FK Teplice he suffered a severe concussion after a fight with Martin Fillo. International career In October 2015, Frýdek received his first call-up to the Czech senior squad for a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying against the Netherlands. He debuted on 24 March 2016 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hradec Králové
Hradec Králové (; ) is a city of the Czech Republic. It has about 94,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Hradec Králové Region. The historic centre of Hradec Králové is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument reservations, urban monument reservation, the wider centre is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument zones, urban monument zone. Administrative division Hradec Králové consists of 21 municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Březhrad (899) *Hradec Králové (14,782) *Kukleny (2,617) *Malšova Lhota (869) *Malšovice (2,557) *Moravské Předměstí (4,966) *Nový Hradec Králové (22,458) *Piletice (186) *Plácky (1,108) *Plačice (737) *Plotiště nad Labem (2,087) *Pouchov (2,007) *Pražské Předměstí (13,045) *Roudnička (873) *Rusek (411) *Slatina (742) *Slezské Předměstí (8,948) *Svinary (1,064) *Svobodné Dvory (2,632) *Třebeš (7,225) *Věkoše (2,436) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Pavelka
David Pavelka (born 18 May 1991) is a Czech former professional footballer who last played as a midfielder for Sparta Prague B and the Czech Republic national team. Club career First spell at Sparta Pavelka started his career with Sparta Prague, from where he joined 1. FC Slovácko on loan in 2011. Two days after his loan was announced, he scored his first Slovácko goal in a 1–1 draw with Sigma Olomouc. Liberec At the start of 2013 Pavelka transferred from Sparta Prague to Slovan Liberec, as part of a deal involving Lukáš Vácha moving in the opposite direction. After the 2014–15 Czech Cup final finished without a winner on 27 May 2015, Pavelka took Liberec's first penalty in the shoot-out and converted his spot-kick as his club defeated Jablonec 3–1 to win the trophy. Playing abroad On 19 January 2016, Pavelka moved abroad for the first time, joining Süper Lig football club Kasımpaşa in a transfer worth a reported $1.65 million. He signed a contract until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exhibition Game
An exhibition game (also known as a friendly, scrimmage, demonstration, training match, pre-season game, warmup match, or preparation match, depending at least in part on the sport) is a sporting event whose prize money and impact on the player's or the team's rankings is either zero or otherwise greatly reduced. Exhibition games often serve as "warm-up matches", particularly in many team sports where these games help coaches and managers select and condition players, before the competitive matches of a league season or tournament. If the players usually play in different teams in other leagues, exhibition games offer an opportunity for the players to learn to work with each other. The games can be held between separate teams or between parts of the same team. An exhibition game may also be used to settle a challenge, to provide professional entertainment, to promote the sport, to commemorate an anniversary or a famous player, or to raise money for charities. Several sports le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Sport
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC BBC Television, television, BBC Radio, radio and BBC Online, online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as ''Match of the Day'', ''Test Match Special'', ''Ski Sunday'' and ''Today at Wimbledon''. Results, analysis and coverage is also added to the #BBC Sport Online, BBC Sport website and through the BBC Red Button interactive television service. History The BBC has broadcast sport for several decades under individual programme names and coverage titles. ''Grandstand (TV programme), Grandstand'' was one of the more notable sport programmes, broadcasting sport for almost 50 years. The BBC first began to brand sport coverage as 'BBC Sport' in 1988 for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, by introducing the programme with a short animation of a globe circumnavigated by four c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherlands National Football Team
The Netherlands national football team ( or simply ''Het Nederlands elftal'') has represented the Netherlands in international men's football matches since 1905. The men's national team is controlled by the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB), the governing body for football in the Netherlands, which is a part of UEFA, under the jurisdiction of FIFA. Most of the Netherlands home matches are played at the Johan Cruyff Arena, De Kuip, Philips Stadion and De Grolsch Veste. The team is colloquially referred to as ''Het Nederlands Elftal'' (The Dutch Eleven) or ''Oranje'', after the House of Orange-Nassau and their distinctive orange jerseys. Informally the team, like the country itself, is referred to as ''Holland''. Additionally, their fan club is known as ''Het Oranje Legioen'' (The Orange Legion). The Netherlands has competed in eleven FIFA World Cups, appearing in the final three times (in 1974, 1978 and 2010), finishing as runners-up on all three occasions. They have al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UEFA Euro 2016 Qualifying
The UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying tournament was a football competition that was played from September 2014 to November 2015 to determine the 23 UEFA member men's national teams joining the automatically qualified host team France in the UEFA Euro 2016 final tournament. A total of 53 national teams participated in this qualifying process, with Gibraltar taking part for the first time. The draw took place at the Palais des Congrès Acropolis, Nice, on 23 February 2014. Qualified teams Format All UEFA member associations were eligible to compete in the qualifying competition, with the host team France qualifying directly to the finals tournament. The other 53 teams were drawn into eight groups of six teams (Groups A–H) and one group of five teams (Group I). The group winners, runners-up, and the best third-placed team (with the results against the sixth-placed team discarded) directly qualified to the finals. The eight remaining third-placed teams contested two-legged play-of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Fillo
Martin Fillo (born 7 February 1986) is a Czech professional Association football, footballer who plays as a right winger. Fillo is a former Czech Republic national football team, Czech Republic international and has played domestic football in the Czech Republic, Norway, England and Germany. He played Czech top-flight football for FC Viktoria Plzeň, Viktoria Plzeň, FK Mladá Boleslav, Mladá Boleslav, 1. FK Příbram, FK Teplice, FC Baník Ostrava and FC Trinity Zlín. Playing career Viktoria Plzeň After beginning his youth career with TJ Košutka Plzeň and SK Plzeň 1894, Fillo joined the youth system at FC Viktoria Plzeň, Viktoria Plzeň in 1996. He began his senior career with Czech 2. Liga, 2. Liga club and helped it to promotion to the Czech First League, First League during the 2004–05 Czech 2. Liga, 2004–05 season. In his first full season in the top flight, he made 29 appearances and scored five goals, as Plzeň narrowly avoided relegation. He played 15 match ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FK Teplice
FK Teplice is a Czech professional football club based in the city of Teplice. The club competes in Czech First League, the top tier of Czech football. The club was founded after World War II in 1945. The club advanced to the Czechoslovak First League in just three years after being founded and played mostly in the First and Second Czechoslovak divisions. After the Velvet Revolution and comeback of rich sponsor, Glaverbel ( spun out of glassworks Sklo Union in 1991), the club played in the Second Division until returning to the top flight in the 1996–97 Czech First League. Teplice were runners up in the 1998–99 Czech First League and went on to play in the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League, although they lost their first match against Borussia Dortmund. The club subsequently won the Czech Cup in 2003 and went on to beat Kaiserslautern and Feyenoord en route to the third round of the 2003–04 UEFA Cup before losing over two legs against Celtic. History Recent history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mafra (company)
Mafra is a Czech media group that publishes printed and internet media, headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. From 2013 to 2023, it was a subsidiary of Agrofert holding conglomerate owned by trust of Andrej Babiš, the former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic. Mafra owns newspapers '' Mladá fronta Dnes'' and '' Lidové noviny''. In September 2023, Agrofert sold the group to the Czech billionaire investor Karel Pražák (Kaprain Group). History Founded in 1992 in Prague, Mafra was acquired in 1994 by the German group Rheinisch-Bergische Druckerei- und Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH (RBDV) (the publisher of the '' Rheinische Post''), which bought Mafra from French press group Socpresse. In 2013, Mafra was acquired by Czech holding group Agrofert, which is owned by Andrej Babiš. Mafra publishes the daily newspaper '' Mladá fronta Dnes'', which – with 224,000 circulation as of March 2011 – is the second largest newspaper in the Czech Republic, after tabloid '' Blesk'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mladá Fronta Dnes
''Mladá fronta Dnes'' (), also known as ''MF Dnes'' or simply ''Dnes'', is a daily newspaper based in the Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south .... As of 2016, it is the second-largest Czech newspaper, after the tabloid '' Blesk''. History and profile ''Mladá fronta Dnes'' is owned by Mafra a.s., a subsidiary of the Agrofert group, a company owned by the former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. Mafra was previously the Czech subsidiary of the German group Rheinisch-Bergische Druckerei - und Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH, the publisher of the '' Rheinische Post'' that bought it from French press group Socpresse in 1994. The newspaper is published in Berliner format. It consists of four sections, one of which contains regional content. Its orientation c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Sýkora
Jan Sýkora (born 29 December 1993) is a Czech former professional footballer who last played as a midfielder for Czech First League club Sigma Olomouc. Club career Sýkora began his professional career at Sparta Prague, but failed to make a league appearance for their first team. He also spent time on loan at Zbrojovka Brno before transferring to Slovan Liberec in 2015. On 15 September 2016, Sýkora scored the fastest ever goal of UEFA Europa League, finding the net after just 10.69 seconds in Liberec's group stage match against Qarabağ FK. In total, he made 34 league appearances for Liberec, scoring one goal. Slavia Prague and loan to Slovan Liberec After a long battle for his signature between Slavia Prague and Viktoria Plzeň, the two frontrunners for the league title at the time, Sýkora signed for the former in January 2017. On 22 November 2018, Sýkora signed a new contract with Slavia until 2022. In February 2019, he returned to Slovan Liberec on loan until the end of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
