First, movement and activation under the guidance of fitness trainers, followed by division into smaller groups and a short passage with passes and finishing in a small goal. “Excellent, Indrit, excellent,” was the praise for the Albanian Tuci, for example.
And then hooray for the game part of Thursday’s unit. Goalkeepers Jakub Surovčík and Filip Nalezinek, along with Matěj Ryneš, Filip Panák, Asger Sörensen and Adam Karabec, welcomed the journalists closer. They were joined by youngsters from the B-team, Jakub Uhrinčať, Roman Mokrovics, Vojtěch Hranoš and Radek Šiler, as well as some fighters who returned from loan.
“Nice Dáňo, great work,” Strahov often said. The all-rounder Kryštof Daněk, who spent last season in Pardubice, had several brilliant moments in this exercise. And together with Václav Sejko or David Pavelka, he belonged to the minority who chose sleeveless clothing in warm weather instead of classic T-shirts.
But back to football. From our point of view, Aska took the front group under his wing. Development coach Michal Vávra supplemented him violently, but the Danish novice in the implementation team had the main say. He focused on the position during the press and the correct execution of the attack. When needed, he stepped into the middle during a break and vividly demonstrated how he would imagine it.
The group on the other side of the pitch, where most of the smaller staff was, was led by Lars Friis with another new assistant, Tim Sparv, who moved to the A-team from the second division reserve. By the way, under the guidance of Luboš Loučka, she toiled on the adjacent lawn. “There are enough of us, even though many players are with the national team. Everyone has a chance, we see new blood, the training sessions are intense. Only good for us,” says Panák.
Sparta’s coaching staff underwent a number of changes due to the departure of head coach Brian Priske to Feyenoord. “Almost everyone knows each other, so everything is fine. We had a short meeting where we discussed what, how it will work, who has what powers,” Panák recounts. “I took Lars as the head coach from the beginning, he and Brian did everything together. Nothing changes for us and I believe that we will be even better,” adds midfielder Lukáš Sadílek.
The end of Thursday morning was provided by the game 8 on 8 already for classic goals. The coaches slightly mixed up the groups, but the journalists remained primarily “young blood”. One of the newcomers was, for example, Tomáš Wiesner, who didn’t like it when he rushed into the counterattack and Askou blew the whistle at that moment. He uttered a few unkind words, exhaled and prepared to continue.
But Askou and the next section were stopped at the moment when Wiesner had the ball on his boots. “A bit of feeling, damn it, isn’t it?” he was angry and waved his hands. But all is well. In a few seconds he was already joking and concentrating on the instructions. Friis ran from one small field to another. When he and Askou launched both at once, it was a decent display of vigorous gestures and commands.
Photo: Michal Kamaryt, CTK
From the left, head coach Lars Friis and his assistant Jens Askou at Sparta’s open practice.
And any standout moments? For example, the 19-year-old forward Šiler, who shone in the B team with ten goals in the spring, performed a great action. So first he had to knock himself out of Patrik Vydra’s slide, but then he appeared alone in front of Surovčík and finished with a cold-blooded lob.
Who knows, maybe even the comet of the last few months will get a place in the elite team. Sparta will play the first duel of the preparation on Saturday 29 June against Swedish AIK. He will leave for training in Germany on Sunday, July 7.
2024-06-20 14:14:55
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