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The rulers are back! They were without matches for over 700 days, now they want to win the Czech league again

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The 28th year of the league will start on Saturday at 11 am (live on ČT Sport) with a match between Přerov Mammoths and Vysočina Gladiators, a day later they will compete in the last final of the Prague Lions with the Ostrava Steelers. The fifth participant in the competition is the Brno Alligators team.

“Already in February, we adopted proposals with nine dates for a possible start of the competition, until the last one was successfully applied. Not every team will combine the league with autumn competitions of other categories, others are not in perfect condition after the covid and asked to be included in the lower league, “explains the head of the Czech American Football Association Filip Hobza.

Each team will play six matches in the basic part, the best two will advance to the September Czech Bowl, which will probably take place on September 11 in Jihlava. Who will advance to it? The form of the teams is shrouded in question marks after a long break, but the favorites remain with the Lions with quarterback Shazzon Muphrey.

“We were without a match for about 700 days,” calculates coach Zach Harrod, the coach of the team that decided not to enter last uncertain season. “I think it was the right decision, we never had that much time to fix the holes in the defense and attack system, we worked hard,” he said.

In their absence, Vysočina Gladiators, which was strengthened by the players of the Prague Black Panthers team, who are standard in the Austrian league, were heading for success last year. “Our boys saw with their own eyes, for example, the example of Karel Augusta, how far they can go if they stay with football for another ten years,” said Gladiators coach Ondřej Paulus.

The final of the Czech Bowl 2019 between the Prague Lions in white and the Ostrava Steelers.

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The Black Panthers will not advance to the playoffs of the Austrian league, so strengthening the Jihlava team is not ruled out this year either. The new quarterback of Gladiators is the American Clarke Hazlett, who also has an engagement in Mexico in his game biography.

“It’s great how American football is growing around the world. I talked to two former players from Jihlava, talked to the coaches and did my own research on the Czech competition, “he describes his acquaintance with the new environment.

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