Pavel Verbíř

"I remember it very fondly because playing Dortmund here... At that time it was a European or world team. Full of well-known good players and our balance with them was such that everyone predicted we would get a lot of goals. But in the end we played two even games with them and lost 1-0 and 1-0, so I think we went out with our heads held high. The games in the European Cups is why a player wants to play those games. Of course our first league is good too, but the European cups have a much bigger following, there are better stadiums. You also look around the world, stadiums like in Kaiserslautern, in Rotterdam or at Celtic Glasgow, in Dortmund. That's something amazing. You fill a lot of experiences and you still remember it to this day."

"In the past, both the material security and the training area... We used to have natural grass and the substitute pitch was cinder. Few people remember that nowadays. Nowadays we have a grass surface with artificial grass, which serves us even in winter when the grass is frozen and you can't train on it. With clubs now investing in artificial grass, it has gone up tremendously from that point of view. That's kind of the biggest change because before you had to play on cinder because you couldn't play on grass. So the conditions have improved every year and nowadays the players have conditions such that in the winter time, when there is maybe a metre of snow here, they fly to Turkey or Cyprus where the conditions are excellent in terms of preparation and training. And here you can't actually train because there is nowhere to train."