Coach Marcel Lička deserves more attention! He’s making waves in Eastern European countries

Marcel Lička is a native of Ostrava, where he also grew up playing football. His active playing career was really rich. Just from the list of all his playing engagements, it can be concluded that he had to get to know a lot of coaches and coaching styles. His coaching career started 6 years after the end of his playing career and Marcel Licka is still rocking the bench!

Marcel Licka started his coaching journey as an assistant coach in Radomiak, Poland, where he spent one year. After that he went to Belarus, where he was also supposed to be an assistant and mainly to gain experience.

But when the coach was dismissed at Dynamo Brest and the relatively young and unsharpened Licka took the helm, big things started to happen.

From a temporary engagement, Licka earned the position of head coach and in the 2018/2019 season won the championship title and the Belarusian Super Cup with Brest. Brest have never won the league before.

If you are interested in more statistics, the Ostrava native did the following in Belarus. He played 48 games, scored 35 wins, 8 draws and only 5 losses. That’s an average of 2.35 points per game. And the score? 103::37!

Marcel Licka in Orenburg

In August 2020, Marcel Licka headed even further east, specifically to Orenburg, Russia. It is a city of half a million people, located only 150 km from the border with Kazakhstan. The distance from Moscow is almost 1500 km.

However, the Ostrava native doesn’t care too much about the location and is 100% dedicated to football, because what he managed to do in Belarus was obviously no accident.

Orenburg play in the second highest Russian competition and Licka finished second with them last season, which was a promotion place. However, due to inadequate infrastructure, Nizhny Novgorod were promoted at his expense.

This season, things are quite similar and the 44-year-old coach is even in first place with Orenburg and is on his way to promotion again.

He has coached 66 games in Russia so far. He has won 43 of them, drawn 11 and lost 12. That’s an average of 2.12 points per game.

This coach deserves much more attention in the Czech Republic! As far as the formation is concerned, he usually uses the 4-2-3-1 formation, but he is not afraid to use the diamond formation 4-4-2 or the more attacking 4-3-3.

Sources: Transfermarkt, Bielsista