Czechs in crisis but legend Nedved wants smarts against Ireland

Former Ballon D’Or winner Nedvěd is the general manager of an organisation that just sacked Ivan Hasek

Pavel Nedved   (Photo by Yasser Bakhsh/Getty Images)

Czechia legend Pavel Nedved has urged the current generation to confront the playoff against Ireland with their ‘heads rather than body’.

Former Ballon D’Or winner Nedvěd is the general manager of an organisation enduring something of a crisis after sacking Ivan Hasek last month for losing to Faroe Islands and stripping Tomáš Souček of the captaincy this week.