It was 20 years and we all wanted to do it so in March everything went in our hands because we had two shootouts and we changed the history again," kata Soucek.

Soucek menambahkan bahwa persaingan di Grup A sangat menarik karena mempertemukan tim-tim dari empat benua berbeda, yakni Meksiko, Korea Selatan, dan Afrika Selatan.

"We are all looking forward for the World Cup because the whole country has waited for so very long.

Now we are there, we just don't want to only enjoy that but we want to be successful there as well," tutur Soucek.

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Pemain berusia 31 tahun tersebut menegaskan bahwa target awal timnya saat ini adalah fokus melewati fase grup secara bertahap.

"The first goal that we did was to qualify and it was really nice to be part of that," kata Soucek.

Soucek juga melihat regulasi turnamen saat ini membuka peluang lebih besar bagi tim peringkat ketiga terbaik untuk lolos ke babak sistem gugur.

"The group is from all over the world because it's one Asian team, one African team, one North American team and one European team, so it's great to have this," ujar Soucek.

Ceko menargetkan minimal bisa memainkan lima pertandingan pada kompetisi kali ini untuk bisa menyamai pencapaian generasi emas mereka terdahulu.

"In this World Cup lots of teams from third position in their group go through so for me the only goal is to go through.

We have to go step by step but the dream has to be to go as far as we can," ucap Soucek.