Milan and several others banned from National Team

[december]

www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1046548.html
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I am currently lost for words. Pictures and articles of the players' late night adventures after the slovakia game have been all about the czech media for several days now, including those calling for the players' ban, but I didn't believe it would actually happen.
I don't know what to say. As far as I know (having read the czech media) there was never any proof that the girls in the players' company were really prostitutes, some of them even called the tabloids to deny these accusations. And I really don't get all the fuss about the players going out after a match. The game was over, no other game in the near future, so why shouldn't they go out and have a few drinks together? The didn't go on rampage, they didn't get into fights, the only problem is, that they were fotographed in company of girls in short skirts. C'mon, folks, what's the deal?
So now the coach is sacked (Hurray!), the whole staff as well (also hurray), and 6 players banned. No hurray at all.

Baros, Sverkos, Fenin, or in other words, the only good strikers the CzechRep currently has, are banned. Ujfalusi banned and ended his national career therefore, Jankulovski followed, because he was falsly accused of having been at the bar, too; so the defence is lacking two key players, ....

If there was any chance of qualifying for the World Cup, it is gone now. There isn't even a team.

[maryg]

ooh my god. I'm so disappointed about milan's behavior if these newspapers prove that these girls are prostitues. It's pity for mili. he begun to play well for the czech national team. They won't qualify:'(. I keep supporting Mili at galatasaray where he score a lot of goal this season. Czech newspapers are rubbish

[december]

I'm quite sure that they weren't prostitutes. One of them definitely called the tabloid and said, that she is not a prostitute. So I assume, that the others are neither, since they all appear as a group on the photos. Plus: Martin Fenin said that one of them is a friend of his and that she is definitely no prostitute. The tabloids just love to make up such stories. They didn't talk to the girls, they weren't inside the bar, they just took photos from a distance and assumed the whole prostitute story because of the short skirts. Prague is having quite warm temperatures and loads of girls there wear short skirts. The tabloids like their scandals and a headline "football players talk with girls" doesn't sell as well as "football players party with prostitutes".
The fact, that Jankulovski was at first reported to have been involved, too, shows clearly that the tabloids were very ill informed.

And besides all that, it isn't anyone's business, what the guys do in their free time. As far as I am concerned, they may party with prostitutes, if they want, as long as it doesn't affect the game. Which isn't the case here. Morally it is debatable, of course, especially concerning those with wives and girlfriends, but it is their private issue, which they'd have to solve at home. Without the public. And without the "useful" reactions of the czech football association.

Concerning the team, I really hope that a new coach will have the banned players back in the team and will be able to persuade Ujfalusi and Jankulovski to make a comeback. Those players are needed.

The Football Associations clearly overreacted. They even fired the medical staff. It just doesn't make any sense.

[mcanbaz006]

it's just a fool act. 6 important players are banned. then who can expect qualifying to world cup now..

[ernestbaros]

I feel horrible reading those news today, I try to calm down and say to myself that its not true and that they will appeal and get a chance to go back into the team, the team really needs thos players.
I hope thos whole thing ends up well for the players and of course for all of us, the supporters of the team.

[Papillon]

f... czech federaition. we wlill see can they find someone like Baros...

[december]

Newspaper MFDnes made a list of possible strikers for the national team. That list reads like a really good joke, if it wasn't so d**n serious.

[checocadista]

I don´t think there were prostitutes, it´s just bullnuts that press try to sell.

[december]

The whole thing just doesn't make sense. The Czech Football Association said, that they chose such a severe punishment, because it wasn't the first time the players were having such a party. True, it wasn't. In 2007 after the qualification match against Germany some of them were celebrating Ujfalusis birthday in the hotel, but except for Ujfalusi the banned players weren't involved. Sverkos and Fenin weren't even part of the team back then, if I remember correctly, so it wasn't their second after match party, but their first. No need to ban them.