March 26 (Bloomberg) -- The Czech national team was fined by the country's soccer association for holding a party at the team's hotel on March 24 after losing to Germany 2-1 earlier in the evening in Prague.

The association fined the team 1 million koruna ($47,500) because the party to celebrate defender Tomas Ujfalusi's birthday ``did not correspond to the proper behavior of a member of the Czech Republic's national team,'' Vaclav Tichy, an association spokesman, said in a phone interview today.

Six prostitutes entered a room on the team's fourth floor at about 5 a.m. where Arsenal playmaker Tomas Rosicky, Nurnburg's Jan Polak, third-string goalkeeper Marek Cech, Spartak Moscow defender Martin Jiranek and AC Fiorentina's Ujfalusi were drinking amid loud music, the tabloid Sip said, publishing pictures taken at the hotel.

Before the arrival of the girls, Ujfalusi, who turned 29 on the day of the game, was identified giving 41,000 koruna to the hotel receptionist, who later took the girls to the room, Sip said.

Rosicky denied the report to news agency iDnes.

`There were no women there, we didn't even drink too much,'' Rosicky told iDnes. ``If we had, we wouldn't have been able to train.''

The Czech Republic's defeat leaves the team tied in second place with Ireland behind Germany in their qualifying group. The Czechs host Cyprus in two days' time, while Ireland faces fourth-place Slovakia.

The top two advance to the 2008 European Championship finals in Austria and Switzerland.

To contact the reporter on this story: Yon Pulkrabek in Prague ypulkrabek@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: March 26, 2007 10:16 EDT