General director and vice president of football Slovan Bratislava Ivan Kmotrík Jr. complained before the start of the season that fans were not buying season tickets for the domestic league.
If he hoped that this would change after this winter training, he is deeply mistaken. Slovan certainly did not win new fans in the relatively pro-Western Bratislava with his latest move.
The Slavists are currently training in Doha, Qatar, where they announced three preparatory meetings, but only two were announced through official club channels – against the local teams SC Al-Rayyan and SC Al-Wakrah. They kept the name of the third opponent a secret for a long time and they knew why. The assistant coach Ľuboš Benkovský “divulged” that it would be the Russian Dinamo Moscow in a post on Instagram on Monday.
He later edited his post and no longer talked about three preparatory meetings, but only about two. He simply deleted the mention of Dinamo.
Already on Monday, Jaroslav Tvrdík, the long-term active chairman of the board of directors of Slavia Prague, reacted to this on the X social network. He declared that if Slovan plays against Dinamo, Slavia will cancel the upcoming warm-up match with Slovan on February 4. In other words, it is undoubtedly more attractive in terms of football and spectators.
“While SK Slovan is preparing for the match against Dinamo Moscow, further Russian attacks have hit civilian and football infrastructure. We call on #Slavs to
This article is exclusive content for Denník N subscribers.
Are you a subscriber? Log in