PRAGUE, April 25 (Reuters) - Czech Republic coach Jozef
Chovanec will continue testing second-choice players in
Wednesday's friendly against Israel to help decide on the
remaining places in his squad for Euro 2000.
The match at Prague Letna stadium will be the last home
appearance for the Czechs, who were runners-up in Euro 96,
before the championship.
Chovanec has called up 22 and while he gave no names for the
starting line-up, he said on Tuesday: 'Those who have not had
many opportunities so far should appear in the starting line-up
this time. I want everyone to get a fair chance to show what
they've got.'
The Czechs suffered a blow last week when first choice
defender, Jan Suchoparek from Tennis Borussia Berlin, seriously
injured his knee. He is highly doubtful for Euro 2000.
Chovanec then called up experienced Sparta Prague sweeper
Jiri Novotny. The coach said the other possible for the job
could be Petra Drnovice's Miroslav Kadlec, the team's defensive
pillar in Euro 96, who could make an international comeback.
Israel coach Richard Moeller Nielsen, meanwhile, has
replaced injured striker Kfir Udi with Maccabi Haifa's Yaniv
Katan.
That is the only significant change to the side which
hammered Russia 4-1 in February, but only drew 1-1 with Georgia
in March.
Probable teams:
Czech Republic: Pavel Srnicek; Petr Gabriel, Karel Rada,
Tomas Repka; Miroslav Baranek, Pavel Horvath, Pavel Nedved, Jiri
Nemec, Ivo Ulich; Jan Koller, Pavel Kuka
Israel: Rafi Cohen; Adoram Keisi, Amir Shelah, Arik Benado,
Ofer Talkar; Walid Badir, Avi Tikva, Idan Tal, Eyal Berkovic;
Haim Revivo, Yaniv Katan.
Referee: Zbigniew Marczyk (Poland)