The Banik Ostrava Herald
Squad1 Mar 2027
Michal Kohút in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Banik Ostrava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words at Banik Ostrava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jiří Boula is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market1 Mar 2027
One of our own: Patrik Holes joins the Banik Ostrava first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Patrik Holes is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market1 Mar 2027
Pavel Vydra steps up from the Banik Ostrava academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pavel Vydra 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.
Market1 Mar 2027
David Sima steps up from the Banik Ostrava academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. David Sima 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.
Market1 Mar 2027
Banik Ostrava promote Michal Provod from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Michal Provod 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Lawal Muritala wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Banik Ostrava know it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Michal Frydrych is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Michal Frydrych has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
No hiding place for Maksym Diachuk
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maksym Diachuk, and the manager let it.
In brief
- The dugout Michal Kohút gets picked when it counts
- The dugout A door opens for Vojtěch Vorel
- The dugout Viktor Budinský asks for a word with the manager