Czech team for Portugal

Coach Mgeladze faced many selection problems ahead of the Czechs' last game of the season against Portugal tomorrow in Říčany.

Many second- and back-row forwards are missing in the squad for various reasons. Buryánek and Leroch for work, Kučera, Obr, Mádry are injured. Němeček left for Australian season. Their space is filled-in by Bláha, Černý, and an american football convert Dlouhý.

Probable squad: Roman Šuster (Limoges, France), Jan Oswald (Tatra), Pavel Indrák (Havířov) - Robert Voves (Limoges, Francie), Jan Macháček (Slavia) - Ladislav Vondrášek (Esher, UK), Jan Žíla (Tatra), Josef Bláha (Říčany) - Pavel Syrový (Praga), Tomáš Krejčí (Dragon) - Michal Schlanger (Petrovice), Pavel Čamrda (Říčany), Jan Rohlík (Saint Nazaire, France), Roman Kodera (Říčany) - Tomáš Nevický (Říčany) Bench: Jiří Skall (Sparta), Pavel Hocke (Sparta), Jiří Černý (Tatra), Martin Dlouhý (Slavia), Vítězslav Dosedla (Dragon), Jaroslav Tomčík (Havířov), Michal Jirman (Slavia)

Jan Macháček