Czech Republic coach Miroslav Koubek resigned on Tuesday after the team\u2019s early exit from the World Cup.<\/p>\n
The decision was mutual, Koubek and Czech Football Association head David Trunda said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe coach offered me his position at a personal meeting today and I decided to accept his offer after an open and fair debate,\u201d Trunda said.<\/p>\n
Koubek said he was responsible for the poor results at the World Cup, where the Czechs lost to South Korea and Mexico and drew with South Africa. The Czechs finished on the bottom of Group A with one point.<\/p>\n
Still, his announcement came as a surprise. After returning from the World Cup, Koubek originally said he was ready to continue as coach and Pavel Nedv\u011bd, the manager general of Czech teams, suggested Koubek remained the right person for the job.<\/p>\n
\u201cA media campaign against me based on some half-truths and fabrications also contributed to my decision,\u201d Koubek said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn such an atmosphere, my work for the Czech national team would no longer make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear who might replace him.<\/p>\n
The 74-year-old Koubek took over in December, signing a contract for two and a half years. He successfully qualified the Czechs for their first World Cup in 20 years. They earned European playoff wins against Ireland and Denmark.<\/p>\n
Koubek\u2019s resignation followed the international retirement of the team\u2019s major star, Patrik Schick, just hours after World Cup elimination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Czech Republic coach Miroslav Koubek resigned on Tuesday after the team\u2019s early exit from the World Cup. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-768485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}