Football Has Agreed: It Needs Change. What Else Can Be Concluded From David Trunda's Election Triumph?
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Football is led by a hockey player. David Trunda has a strong mandate, but a strong personality is missing.
It's good that Czech football is getting an impulse and will stop stagnating. But it's still hard to judge whether sports manager David Trunda is the right boss for the Strahov kingdom. He definitely didn't win the election on Thursday, when two hundred delegates from across the country voted at the general meeting.
David Trunda has become the new head of Czech football. Just two months ago, such news would have been a minor shock, but events behind the scenes have been quietly leading to such an outcome in recent days. The owner of the first-league team Mladá Boleslav proclaimed that he wanted to help amateur football mainly, while the current FAČR chairman Petr Fousek was given a lesson by the delegates.
Prague - David Trunda has become the new chairman of the Football Association of the Czech Republic. The 49-year-old owner of the Mladá Boleslav first-league club defeated Rudolf Blažek and Petr Fousek, who did not defend his position and is leaving office after four years, in the elections at today's general meeting in Prague. Trunda narrowly missed out on winning the mandate in the first round, but formally confirmed his victory in the second.…
Trunda narrowly missed out on the mandate in the first round, but formally confirmed his victory in the second. Tomáš Pešír for Bohemia and former representative Zdeněk Grygera for Moravia were elected vice-chairmen of the association. Trund was two votes short of being elected in the first round, he did not have the required absolute majority in the Moravian chamber. However, he was the only one to advance, as he defeated the remaining two cand…

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