The Dukla Prague Gazette
Match12 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Dukla Prague
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Michal Černák was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Door shut on Joel Roca
Dukla Prague asked and Olympiacos said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market14 Sep 2026
Vladimir Sykora steps up from the Dukla Prague academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Vladimir Sykora has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market14 Sep 2026
Vladimir Coufal steps up from the Dukla Prague academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Vladimir Coufal has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market14 Sep 2026
Dukla Prague promote Pavel Sykora from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pavel Sykora has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Michal Provod joins the Dukla Prague first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Michal Provod is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match12 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Dukla Prague against Teplice
0‑1 to Teplice, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Dario Kreiker falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout No hiding place for Tidjane Traoré
- Squad Boubou Diallo has had enough of the bench