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He is currently the Sporting Director at Banik Ostrava in his homeland, the club where he began his career and made more than 200 appearances before joining West Ham in 1990.

Ostrava has been one of the most-affected towns, after the river Oder burst its banks following heavy downpours on Tuesday.

Slovakia also registered its first win, a 6-2 victory over Kazakhstan in Group B in Ostrava.

I wasn’t the first passenger in the dining car en route to the Czech Republic’s eastern city of Ostrava, which was how I hit my first snag.

Her previous title was in October, when she beat Swiatek for the first time in the Ostrava final.