The Slovak Football Association (SFZ) has fined national team head coach Vladimir Weiss 10,000 dollars for "inappropriate and unprofessional behavior" at a press conference after Slovakia lost an Euro 2012 qualifier to Russia 1-0 in Zilina last week.

"Weiss reacted inappropriately and unprofessionally to a legitimate question asked by a journalist from the futbalportal.sk website, and when leaving the press conference coarsely insulted the aforementioned journalist," SFZ president Jan Kovacik said in a written statement.

"As this incident represented a repeated failure in communication with the media, [SFZ] strongly cautions Vladimir Weiss that this is his last warning, and that such behaviour won't be tolerated in the future," said Kovacik.

The journalist asked Weiss whether he was considering resigning after the botched qualifier. Instead of responding, Weiss went into a sulk and called the journalist a 'f*cking bastard' before storming out of the press conference.

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