Friendly Roster Chosen

Sam Beckwith from PragueTV reports on the upcoming friendly and which players have been called up.

Czech national team coach Karel Bruckner has included Liberec defender Tomas Zapotocny, Arminia Bielefeld midfielder David Kobylik and Hertha Berlin forward Vaclav Sverkos in a 28-man squad that will play two friendlies against Turkey. By mutual consent, Bruckner hasn’t named Pavel Nedved in his squad. Both games will played on Wednesday, March 1st, in Izmir, giving everyone in the squad a good chance of participation - Bruckner even told reporters that some players could play 45 minutes in each of the two games.

CZECH SQUAD TO FACE TURKEY
GOALKEEPERS
Petr Cech (Chelsea, England; 38 caps/0 goals)
Jaromir Blazek (Sparta Praha; 10/0)
Antonin Kinsky (Saturn, Russia; 5/0)

DEFENDERS
Rene Bolf (Auxerre, France; 34/0)
Tomas Hubschman (Shakhtar Donetsk, Ukraine; 20/0)
Marek Jankulovski (AC Milan, Italy; 44/7)
Martin Jiranek (Spartak Moscow, Russia; 20/0)
Pavel Mares (Zenit St. Petersburg, Russia; 8/0)
Zdenek Pospech (Sparta Praha; 2/0)
David Rozehnal (Paris SG, France; 18/0)
Tomas Ujfalusi (Fiorentina, Italy; 43/2)
Tomas Zapotocny (Slovan Liberec; 0/0)

MIDFIELDERS
David Jarolim (Hamburg, Germany; 1/0)
Jiri Jarosik (Birmingham, England; 23/0)
David Kobylik (Bielefeld, Germany; 0/0)
Radoslav Kovac (Spartak Moscow, Russia; 5/0)
Karel Poborsky (Ceske Budejovice; 111/7)
Jan Polak (Nurnberg, Germany; 14/5)
Jaroslav Plasil (Monaco, France; 10/1)
Tomas Rosicky (Dortmund, Germany; 52/15)
Rudolf Skacel (Hearts, Scotland; 3/1)
Stepan Vachousek (Austria Wien, Austria; 22/2)

FORWARDS
Milan Baros (Aston Villa, England; 45/26)
Marek Heinz (Galatasaray, Turkey; 25/5)
Tomas Jun (Besiktas, Turkey; 9/2)
Vaclav Sverkos (Hertha Berlin, Germany; 0/0)
Vladimir Smicer (Bordeaux, France; 81/27)
Jiri Stajner (Hannover, Germany; 17/2)