The Vlašim Chronicle
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Matěj Radosta would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Matěj Radosta is living that version at Vlašim, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from František Kotek
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Ondřej Pavlík
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Vlašim have done the hard part with Sparta Prague, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Jakub Martinec turns down Vlašim
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Sparta Prague keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Market10 Aug 2026
Dominik Soukeník comes home
The shirt still fits. Dominik Soukeník is back at Vlašim, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Vlašim
Bojan Đorđić was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jakub Barac 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Matej Vydra steps up from the Vlašim academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Matej 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Patrik Cerny steps up from the Vlašim academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrik Cerny 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.
In brief
- Market Vlašim promote Jiri Masopust from within
- Player ratings Bojan Đorđić beats them one at a time
- The dugout Adam Barak on the point