Meet our chief coach

Milan Macura

Milan is the founder and developer of MM Bridge Academy

MM Bridge Academy, with its website milanbridge.com, was launched in 2019 and is constantly evolving. The goal of this project is to provide professional coaching to any player worldwide. 

Milan organizes Major International events

Milan is the on-site Manager of the European Winter Transnationals, which have taken place in Prague since 2025. This Championship is open to all players and maintains the highest world standards. 

Milan also organizes the Prague Youth Bridge Festival. It is in November and all U26 juniors are welcome to join this fantastic competition, which hosted 35 teams from 13 countries in 2025.

Milan is a professional coach

On behalf of the EBL, Milan is organizing EBL Youth Coach seminars. He has been a member of the EBL Youth Committee since 2013 and is involved with the development of teaching methods.

Milan is coaching the Czech national youth teams. Besides his roles as captain and coach, he likes working with steady partnerships to improve their bidding and defense agreements.

Milan is organizing bridge lessons for clubs, small groups, or individuals, both online and on-site. Ask him to come to your bridge club or arrange an online session for your group.

Milan is a Funbridge ambassador and streamer

He started streaming in 2019 and introduced a new way to entertain and teach. He has hundreds of tournaments recorded on YouTube and this website. You can find his tournaments on Funbridge, or you can challenge him on Intobridge in Daily celebrity challenges.

Milan is a world-class player

Milan is the World Youth Champion, European Champion, and multiple national Champion. He is playing for the Czech National Team, but more often in international teams. If you wish to hire him for a tournament as your partner or teammate, leave him a message.

Milan represented the bridge world at the 1st Olympic E-sport Games

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Milan is a sportsman

His favorite hobby besides bridge is golf. He started playing golf with his wife in 2021, and it has since become his passion. He won many trophies during his first years at Hostivar Golf Club in Prague. He reached the single handicap in 3 years, but his real goal is to become a scratch golfer.

Milan also played other sports on a national level: handball, squash, and crossminton. He likes beach volleyball, roundnet, badminton, but also pub sports like bowling, darts, and billiards.

Milan is the founder and developer of MM Bridge Academy

MM Bridge Academy, with its website milanbridge.com, was launched in 2019 and is constantly evolving. The goal of this project is to provide professional coaching to any player worldwide. 

Milan organizes Major International events

Milan is the on-site Manager of the European Winter Transnationals, which have taken place in Prague since 2025. This Championship is open to all players and maintains the highest world standards. 

Milan also organizes the Prague Youth Bridge Festival. It is in November and all U26 juniors are welcome to join this fantastic competition, which hosted 35 teams from 13 countries in 2025.

Milan is a professional coach

On behalf of the EBL, Milan is organizing EBL Youth Coach seminars. He has been a member of the EBL Youth Committee since 2013 and is involved with the development of teaching methods.

Milan is coaching the Czech national youth teams. Besides his roles as captain and coach, he likes working with steady partnerships to improve their bidding and defense agreements.

Milan is organizing bridge lessons for clubs, small groups, or individuals, both online and on-site. Ask him to come to your bridge club or arrange an online session for your group.

Milan is a Funbridge ambassador and streamer

He started streaming in 2019 and introduced a new way to entertain and teach. He has hundreds of tournaments recorded on YouTube and this website. You can find his tournaments on Funbridge, or you can challenge him on Intobridge in Daily celebrity challenges.

Milan is a world-class player

Milan is the World Youth Champion, European Champion, and multiple national Champion. He is playing for the Czech National Team, but more often in international teams. If you wish to hire him for a tournament as your partner or teammate, leave him a message.

Milan is a sportsman

His favorite hobby besides bridge is golf. He started playing golf with his wife in 2021, and it has since become his passion. He won many trophies during his first years at Hostivar Golf Club in Prague. He reached the single handicap in 3 years, but his real goal is to become a scratch golfer.

Milan also played other sports on a national level: handball, squash, and crossminton. He likes beach volleyball, roundnet, badminton, but also pub sports like bowling, darts, and billiards.

Milan Macura

Milan is a professional bridge player ...

Since 2010, Milan played tournaments all over the world at the top level. He played several Nationals with Michal Kopecky and Lars Artur Johanson. He is a silver medalist from the European Winter Games BAM 2016 and he has medals from various International tournaments.

You can hire Milan as a partner or a team member with his pro partner.

... and coach.

He has been involved in youth coaching since 2009. In 2020 he became the Chief coach of the Czech National Youth team and in 2022, he coached the U16 team that qualified for the World Youth Championships in 4th place. It was the best result at the European Youth Team Championship in Czech history. His goal is no smaller than winning the EC and WC.

Milan served in several administration roles

With WBF president Jan Kamras and Pavel Teňak

He is the General manager of the Czech Bridge Federation

Milan managed the Czech Bridge Federation as the president from January 2012 till December 2020. 

He took a break to establish the MM Bridge Academy and in 2025, he returned to work for the CBF as the General Manager.

He is a member of EBL committees

Milan has been a member of the EBL Youth Committee since 2013. He has organized sever coach seminars.

He is also member of the EBL Small Federation Committee since 2018.

Milan is a multiple National Champion and
World Youth Champion

Czech-Japan team at 1st World Youth Congress

Milan is a World Champion...

In 2009, he won the 1st Youth Congress with Michal Kopecky, Hiroaki Miura, and Noriaki Koike in a Czech-Japan team.

... and a European Champion

He won the European Small Federation Games in Košice in 2013 with Michal Kopecký, Eva Bahníková, and Josef Kurka.

He is multiple National Champion

Milan managed to win all Czech Major tournaments and Championships and he is at the top of the new Czech ranking since its beginning in 2018.

Milan is a University graduate and teacher

University team: Michal Kopecky, Jana Jankova, Ine Gielkens, Milan Macura, Pavla Hoderova

Milan has a Bachelor's
degree ...

... from informatics at the Czech Technical Univerity in Prague, graduated in 2007.

He also has a Master's degree ...

... in statistics at the University of Economics, graduated in 2011.

He is teaching bridge ... 

... at the Charles University and runs afterschool class at Gymnazium Elišky Krásnohorské in Prague.

He participated at University ... 

... Championships between 2003 and 2012. Since then, he is coaching the Czech university team.

Milan loves his family

Milan with Michaela and Amanda

Milan is married to Michaela "Mandy" Macurova

They got married in 2016 and live in Prague. They played a European Mixed Championships in Montecatini.

Besides Michaela's main job in financing, she works in MM Bridge Academy. She is also a bridge player and golfer. M+M won several Czech titles together. 

Milan and Mandy have a daughter – Amanda

Amanda was born in 2019, and she is an amazing girl. Always smiley and fun, with an appetite to compete and win. 
She is our inspiration and time will tell if she becomes a bridge and golf champion.

Milan loves golf and is a sportsman

Milan hits the driver over 250 meters.

Milan's favorite hobby besides bridge is golf

He started playing golf with his wife in 2021 and it became his passion ever since. He won many trophies during his first years at Hostivar Golf Club in Prague. He reached the single handicap in 3 years but his real goal is to become a scratch golfer.

Milan played several sports on national level

He started with handball from the age of 7 till 18 when he moved to Prague. Then he picked up squash and played in the 2nd national league. He played in the European and the World Championships in crossminton. He likes to play all kinds of sports, especially new ones, e.g., roundnet or padel, but he enjoys pub sports as well.