Muscat: The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Oman Football Association (OFA), Salem bin Saeed bin Salem Al Wahaibi, has signed an agreement with Czech coach Jaroslav Šilhavý, who will lead the technical staff of the Oman national team until 2026.
The contract was signed at the federation’s headquarters.
Šilhavý previously coached some Czech clubs and the Czech national team and achieved many successes, most notably the Czech League champion in his second season with Slovan Liberec in the 2011/2012 season, after finishing runner-up in his first year, and the Czech League champion in the 2016/2017 season.
With Slavia Prague, and at the Czech national team level, he assumed the position of coach in 2018 and led his country to the quarter-finals of the European Championship 2020 and the European Championship of 2024.
His next task is the double Asian qualifiers the World Cup finals 2026 and the 2027 Asian Cup.
Šilhavý played for the Czechoslovakia U21 national team for eight years, some of these as an authorized over-age player.
In this time he made 18 appearances for his country.
Šilhavý represented Czechoslovakia four times as a player, making his debut against Finland on August 29, 1990.
His final appearance for the full national side was on March 27, 1991, when he played eight minutes of a match against Poland.
He also played one match, in 1992, for Czechoslovakia B.
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