“Already at the time he left for politics, we had preliminarily agreed that if he wanted to return, we would count on him at the union and we would like to welcome him. He was in various federal positions for almost ten years and went through all levels of the hockey movement. From the recruitment activities of the youngest hockey players to the national team, “said Zdeněk Zikmund, spokesman for Czech hockey, Sport.cz.
Now there is a dusting of cooperation with Hnilička. After less than three years. It was the association that today offered the forty-eight-year-old Olympic champion from Nagano and the three-time world champion the opportunity to return.
Milan Hnilička ends up at the head of the National Sports Agency
“And we are glad that he accepted our offer. Last week, we signed a memorandum on organizing the World Cup in 2024 with the Moravian-Silesian Region, so we are moving the preparation for the championship to the next phase, which of course puts new demands on the secretariat. Milan’s job is Deputy Secretary General Martin Urban, “explains Urban.
David Pastrňák receives congratulations from the then head of the National Sports Agency, Milan Hnilička, for winning the Athlete of the Year 2020 poll.
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However, this will be far from the only content of Hniliček’s work. “He will focus on the areas with which he has the greatest experience in the past – the development of hockey, sports diplomacy; that is, contacts with the International Hockey Federation and national federations; Of course, we are also counting on him during the preparation of the World Cup 2024 in Prague and Ostrava – again in the area of sports diplomacy, “Zikmund said, adding that the native of Litoměřice will also cooperate with the national team.
In the past, the neovlivni.cz server wrote that Hniliček’s end at the head of the NSA was largely due to the fact that someone sent Prime Minister Babiš documents according to which the former excellent goalkeeper “got involved” in suspicious financial transactions. ” The agency, which some time ago was dealing with a business contract for a client, but Milan Hnilička, who met one of the originally monitored people, allegedly accidentally “got involved” in the contract. And the random actor soon became one of the subjects, “wrote the server novlivni.cz.
Milan Hnilička ends up at the head of the National Sports Agency
However, this did not play any role in the association when deciding on Hniliček’s comeback. “It simply came to our notice then. We are dealing with sports, not politics or similar speculations, which may have appeared in the media, “concluded Zikmund.
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