The Viktoria Žižkov Chronicle
Squad19 Jul 2027
The knee: David Černý out for 77 days
77 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Viktoria Žižkov lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market19 Jul 2027
Miroslav Routek hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Viktoria Žižkov can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Viktoria Žižkov baulk at the price for Matěj Chaluš
Banik Ostrava wanted more than $1.2M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Viktoria Žižkov
Tomáš Vaclík and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Viktoria Žižkov
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Viktoria Žižkov training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miroslav Routek 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.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Viktoria Žižkov rebuffed over Ladislav Krobot
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Pardubice have kept their man, and Viktoria Žižkov go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market19 Jul 2027
Viktoria Žižkov promote Daniel Schick from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Schick 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
One of our own: Patrik Krejci joins the Viktoria Žižkov first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Patrik Krejci is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Ales Masopust steps up from the Viktoria Žižkov academy
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Miroslav Routek
- Boardroom Viktoria Žižkov board go back on their word