Indian Tremendous League’s Mumbai Metropolis FC named Czech Petr Kratky as the brand new head coach on Saturday.
The 42-year-old joins Mumbai Metropolis in his new position till the top of the 2024-25 season. Petr Kratky arrives in Mumbai from Melbourne Metropolis — a sister membership of the ISL Protect winners. Each Melbourne and Mumbai Metropolis are among the many 13 groups owned by the Metropolis Soccer Group (CFG).
The Islanders’s ISL conflict towards FC Goa on December 12 will probably be Kratky’s first sport in control of the membership, which at present stand fourth within the league desk.
A right-back in his taking part in days, Kratky spent 15 years donning the colors of a number of the greatest Czech golf equipment like Mlada Boleslav and Slovan Liberec. He hung his boots after a stint with Heidelberg United in Australia, reported PTI.
He then joined A-League facet Melbourne Metropolis as an academy coach, taking cost of the membership’s developmental squad within the NPL2, earlier than teaching them within the NPL Seniors.
Following Des Buckingham’s transfer from Melbourne to Mumbai in October 2021, Kratky was promoted to the position of assistant coach of Melbourne Metropolis’s first group. As assistant, the Czech-Australian coach served below Patrick Kisnorbo, Rado Vidosic and most just lately, below Aurelio Vidmar.
Throughout his seven-year stint at Melbourne Metropolis, Kratky coached and nurtured a number of younger gamers from his developmental squad, making a pathway for them into senior soccer, Mumbai Metropolis FC mentioned on their web site.
As an assistant coach, Kratky was instrumental in guiding Melbourne Metropolis to consecutive A-League Males’s Premiers titles in 2021-22 and 2022-23.
“I’m excited to embark on this new alternative at Mumbai Metropolis FC and to proceed working as a part of the Metropolis Soccer Group. One factor that I worth most inside CFG is that we’re aligned by the identical imaginative and prescient and philosophy which is centred round taking part in the Metropolis manner,” Kratky mentioned in a launch.
“Our philosophy has the overarching objective to succeed, and I am very excited to get began in Mumbai as I do know the membership has set sturdy foundations for long-term success. I hope to construct on every part Mumbai Metropolis has achieved in recent times and to uphold our proud legacy of successful while taking part in enticing soccer.”
