Today’s showcase: Schick in the Euro books, UEFA doesn’t respect health

The Czech national team made a wonderful start to the fight for the European throne, with striker Patrik Schick making history with a goal from a record distance of 45.5 metres. Scotland without black players can accept defeat with dignity. Danish footballer Christian Eriksen fought for his life, UEFA only thinks of the benefit. After Plavsic, Michael Krmencik may also become a Spartan pariah.

Schick has entered the textbooks

The 2-0 win against Scotland in the opening game of the European Championship is very encouraging for the charges of coach Jaroslav Šilhavy, but even if no other good results come, the Czech team has already made history.

The goal by striker Patrik Schick from a record distance of 45.5 metres has gone down in history, straight into the textbooks. He will write another page, Antonín Panenka’s long ball from the penalty shootout in the 1976 European Championship final or Karel Poborský’s lob from Euro 1996 are already in the books.

Czech chic players can enrich European football.

The Scottish Gentlemen’s Team

Ahead of the match with the home Scottish team in Glasgow, there were fears that the case of an alleged racial slur against stopper Ondrej Kudelka, who lost his participation in the tournament after a media lynching, would loom over the game more than the fair fight on the pitch.

Although the Scottish team (without a single dark-skinned player in the starting line-up), like Glasgow Rangers with Slavia, was two goals down on home soil, they did not resort to brutal play, intimidation or look for any sideways excuses for the setback. He presented himself as a set of true gentlemen who could appreciate the qualities of the opponent.

But maybe it was just that the treacherous and humanly immature English coach Steven Gerrard wasn’t sitting on the bench..

UEFA doesn’t look at health

It was a matter of life, minutes of terror. Danish footballer Christian Eriksen collapsed to the ground during a match against Finland, only brought back on the pitch – hopefully – by resuscitation. Teammates, fans, his girlfriend, the whole football world was reeling in fear.

Not so the UEFA management. It ordered the Danish players, who were literally in agony and had no thought of fighting for points, to come on.

Something like this would hardly have happened under the reign of footballer Michel Platini, a three-time Ballon d’Or winner. But Slovenian lawyer Aleksander Čeferin has a different set of footballing and, more importantly, human values.

Krmencik emulates Plavsic

The relations between Sparta and Slavia, which have been strained since time immemorial, were further strained by the case of Serbian legionary Srdjan Plavsic, who left Letna, where he did not renew his contract, and headed to Eden in a Susiovan jersey.

And now there is another clash. National striker Michael Krmenčík would also like to head to the championship team if he slips out of his lucrative but cramped contract from Belgian club FC Bruggy, although according to public logic he should follow coach Pavel Vrba and leave for the red colours.

Former Spartan teammates built a monument to Plavsic in the dressing room, where they called him Mr. What kind of label would Krmenčík get, even though he never played for Sparta?