Martin Reim will lead the Estonian national team against the Czech Republic.
Estonian football
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“I think it was about 10 o’clock in the evening when the president of our association, Aivar Pohlak, called me yesterday. I asked him to repeat what he was saying to me once again. At first it took me ten minutes to talk to my family, and in I was at a hotel one hour a night. It is an extreme situation, “Reim told a news conference in Lublin, where the match will take place in Estonia due to stricter coronavirus restrictions.
He has led the national team in the past. He was the first to join the Swiss team coach Thomas Häberlim, who also had to quarantine. “We have the first conversations behind us. In the morning, the whole implementation team talked to us, not just the head coach. We have to be creative and solve things immediately,” said Reim.
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“We agreed that I would make decisions during the match. We can’t analyze for a long time, we have to make quick decisions. But we have an idea of what the overall picture should have been like,” added Reim, who played 157 matches for the national team.
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Almost all the legionnaires were eliminated from the team and players from the domestic competition were subsequently called. “These are extreme conditions. But the players from the league know each other and now we just have to find the right chemistry. We had to concentrate completely on the one training we had,” Reim said.
“We have to be active tomorrow during the day, there will be some time left until the match. The pace at which the Czech Republic plays matches is high. It will probably be new for many members of the team,” the forty-nine-year-old coach added.
Captain Konstantin Vassiljev also believes that the Estonians will be a worthy opponent despite the problems. “It’s not easy for anyone. There are more questions than answers at the moment. We don’t know what it will look like. But we don’t take it as an excuse before the match. The team that goes to the court has to give up 100 percent. “I believe that we will show our maximum,” Vassiljev remarked.
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