657 matches. Such a portion was trained by the experienced coach Martin Pulpit, who eleven years ago saved Baník from Ostrava in the league. He has now been out of work for a year, the last one in Třinec did not go well for him.
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So he exchanged the football team for children. He teaches physical education in Vrané nad Vltavou, and leads individual training sessions in Prague. Going into seclusion? More like a breath before the next season. “I would like to jump back into the coaching circle again. It just has to make sense,” emphasized the fifty-seven-year-old expert, who calls himself a football addict.
Coaches, how does teaching young people fulfill you?
“It fulfills me enough. Teaching is my second hobby. I think a lot about physical culture, because the physical fitness of young people today is not what it should be. I have constant discussions about it with Dr. Jansta, my former professor at the Faculty of Law.”
And what did you come up with? Is the biggest problem with how much time the next generation spends on mobile?
“Of course, this is one of the aspects that does not allow young people to do sports to the fullest. But my knowledge is that everything starts in the family. If parents prevent their children from spending all their time on mobile phones, then they can more easily get them to at least they moved a little. It’s not that everyone has to be a professional athlete. However, children should spend some of their time moving.”
To put it in a big exaggeration, do the students listen to you more than the players?
“I think I have something to give them, that I can teach them something. Of course, some classes are more disciplined, some less, but that’s part of it. My main task is to motivate the children to start enjoying sports. So that they really they didn’t just spend all their time on a tablet or phone.”
What about football, do you miss it?
“Of course, yes. You know very well that I am a football addict in this and always will be. I would like to jump back into the coaching carousel again. I still have the strength to further expand my 657 coaching matches, but it has to make sense. In other words , it must be different from my last seasons, where I already started to miss that sense 121 Elite of the talented Nikolas Dobias. We got him from the division to the basic lineup of Admira and it’s not a coincidence. He’s a guy that I really like because you can see a huge desire to improve in him. I think that some others do the mistake is that they avoid individual training sessions, that they think that those in clubs are enough. The really great players like Cristiano Ronaldo or Pavel Nedvěd also prepared individually.”
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Dobiás is still only 21 years old. Do you think he should already be in the top competition?
“Each player’s development has its own specifics and rules, and Nikolas still has a long way to go. I advise him not to rush anywhere, to go up step by step. Now he has won his way into the starting line-up in Admira, but as a striker he must score even more goals. Just me I’m not a supporter of hasty steps. Look at stopper Robin Hranáč. It’s nice that he got from Pilsen to Hoffenheim in a short time, but it helped if he doesn’t play there at all? My opinion is that in his case, everyone should have been more patient. He still had time for such a transfer.”
You mentioned that it didn’t work out on your last few stints. Surely you were mainly referring to Třinec…
“It annoyed me a lot there, it made no sense at all. Sports director Franta Šturma promised me long-term cooperation, but in the end we both had to quit. I believed that his position was solid, that we would try to systematically build something in Třinec, but the reality was different. I shouldn’t have been persuaded to do it.”
And have you dealt with any other offers since then?
“Something yes, but it wasn’t anything meaningful. It would just be training for the sake of training, and that’s nothing for me. I have to be 100% involved in my work. But I miss football, I can’t be without it. That’s why I keep watching him closely , I analyze my matches and adjust my training plans, because this sport develops dynamically and you have to constantly react to it, which I have never had a problem with. I always try to educate myself. Adding new and new elements to the training process.”
