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Did you know? ⚽ Sheffield F.C., founded in 1857, is the world’s oldest football club, officially recognized by FIFA! 🏆⚽

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Goodbye Sheffield FC!

Very sadly, today is officially my last day at The World’s First. I would like to say big thank you to everyone who I had a chance to meet: Everyone at Sheffield FC- our Chairman Rich Tims, Dominic Field, Bob Dyson and everybody else that is helping The Club as much as they could. Big thanks also goes to our German friends Robert, Florian and others. Not to mention our partners, mostly Hummel and Thornbridge. Hummel is a new addition to our team with great potential in the future. As you could read earlier, I was staying at one of Thornbridge’s pub, The Greystones. They really have one of the best ales that I could ever taste. I also want to thank to all our fans in Sheffield, rest of UK and globally. Without you, The Club could never reach the importance we have today.

  In addition to meeting many very friendly and helpful people, my stay with Sheffield FC was a great learning experience and I am thankful to The Club for giving me the opportunity to learn how an important club in the history of football works. And being a part of such respectable and noble club was a great honor.

  Thank you and I hope I will have a chance to be part of this great club again sometimes.

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Only Few Days Before the Derby

Saturday is getting closer and closer. From training with the first team I know that our players are looking forward to this event as much as every other staff is. I had the pleasure to communicate and reserve tickets to around 50 Nürnberg fans that will be coming from friendly match of their team against Leeds. It will be exciting to see these men and women, fans of Bundesliga team, come to home of football and enjoy the atmosphere of two oldest football clubs in the world play. It is great to see that our World’s First Derby can spark such interest among people from all nations.

In the meanwhile, I bought a top hat and a bowtie for this special event. Combined with everything else that I already have, I am sure I will be one of the most authentic looking people there. So come to Home of Football on Sunday, dress up in Ladies and Gentlemen style and enjoy a full day of fun.

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World's First Derby

I want to apologize for not updating my blog for a few days, but I hope you will accept my reason: I became an uncle. I went home for a few days to see my little nephew Teo while I am relatively close to Slovakia. As you know, I study in United States and I won’t go home until Christmas so I don’t have too many opportunities to see him.

Anyway, back to football business. As I am sure you know by now, the main event for me here at Sheffield FC is the World’s First Derby. For me, it is a great way how to gain a hands-on experience with organizing a relatively massive event given our resources. We are hoping to attract 750-1000 fans that afternoon, much more than at our other games. On top of that, we are working with dozens of media representatives and many other parties involved- food, music, etc. But all this hard work now will be worth it when we will see mass of people enjoying our event, watching football and listening to music, associated with tasty food and great pint. In the meanwhile, we will be trying to attract as many people as possible using posters and flyers. We will even be spreading word in Sheffield streets dressed in 1857 attire soon.

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Posters and flyers for The World's First Derby

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Training with the First Team

I finally had a chance to take some pictures during the training. Two trainings in, I have to admit this is one of the more intense preseasons I’ve experienced. My body is really sore and my legs are really heavy. Combined with me biking everywhere, I am really getting into shape. I will be leaving Sheffield for a few days for family reasons and then The Club plays a few friendlies so I will be training with the team until the next Thursday. By then my body should fully regenerate so I can get sore all over again J   Hopefully by the time I will have a preseason with the team I play for, I will be in a good enough shape that I will not feel like this again. But I feel quite privileged that I have this opportunity and being able to connect with The Club on so many levels. With the World’s First Derby coming closer and closer, everybody at SFC, from Chairman Rich all the way to players, are getting excited to have a great day full of football, music and fun. I hope I will see you all there!