Czech FA chief gets place on UEFA executive committee

The president of the Football Association of the Czech Republic, Petr Fousek, has been elected to the executive committee of European soccer’s governing body, UEFA. He was voted into the four-year position at a UEFA congress in Lisbon on Wednesday.

Between 1996 and 2002, then Czech FA chief František Chvalovský was a member of the UEFA executive committee.

The highest-ranking Czech soccer official in modern history was former national FA chief Václav Jíra, who served as UEFA vice-president from 1978 to 1992.