Football association boss seeks fast deal with Slavia Prague manager

The newly-installed chairman of the Czech and Moravian Football Association, Ivan Hašek, said on Monday that he would immediately launch talks with Slavia Prague about recruiting manager Karel Jarolím as manager of the national team. Hašek said he would like the manager of the league champions to take up the post full-time but added that this would be difficult to achieve. Jarolím has in the past expressed interest in juggling both club and national jobs. Slavia Prague later said it was willing to talk about Jarolím becoming part-time national manager.

The contract with current manager František Straka expires at the end of June. Straka was bought in by previous football association bosses after Petr Rada was sacked in April following a string of poor results which have endangered Czech qualification for the next World Cup.