The coach of the Slovak football team Vladimir Vays dismissed forward Miroslav Stoch from the team thus punishing Stoch for drunken driving, according to lenta.ru.
Vays noted that Stoch is a very good player, but his deed cannot be left without attention. 21-old forward will miss a friendly with Austria, which is due on August 10, however withholding if the forward will miss other games as well.
Stoch’s participation in a September 6 match with Armenian team for the qualifying stage of the Europe Championship 2012 is open to question.
Stoch was detained on August 7 in Slovakia. Police stopped yellow Ferrari, driven by a football player, and tested him for alcohol, the content of which in the blood stood at 1,17 ppm. As cas.sk Slovak online edition reports, Stoch was driving a card after having five small tins of beer.