is he really gone, i am hearing contrasting news.....
The match next week will be marked by the absence of captain and European Player of the Year in 2003, Pavel Nedved, injured during the fateful match with Greece.
Karel Poborsky will instead captain the team in his 100th appearance.
Brueckner insisted 31-year-old Nedved would be back in the squad for the Czechs' World Cup 2006 qualifier against the Netherlands in Amsterdam on September 8 if he was fit.
But he declined to be drawn on reports Nedved was considering quitting the national squad to concentrate on his career with Juventus.
"I see things more positively than the media do, I am an optimist, I think that we won't be short of him," he said.
i got this on a pavel fan site:
http://pavelnedvedcz.jfast.net/en/news_achieve/news/index.php?id=348&date=2004/08/12
hmmm.. well nedved hasn't officially retired as yet and if poborsly stays then he might also turn around and stay??????