In those days Gottvald worked as a washing machine repairer and car seller only to become boss of Mototechna, a spare part company some time later.

After the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993, both Slovakia and the Czech Republic established their own leagues and Drnovice gained promotion to the First Division.

Finally Gottvald has made his dream of First Division football in his native village come true.

In the so-called "caramel affair" Drnovice players Rostislav Prokop and Milan Poštulka were suspended for two years, the club itself was fined with a ridiculous small amount of 50.000 Czech crowns.

As was revealed some time later, manager Jindřich Dejmal had given the players caramels that contained a forbidden substance.

In 1996 and 1998 they reached the Czech Cup Final but lost to Sparta Prague and FK Jablonec respectively.

In those years, Gottvald lost more and more of his influence and finally left the club after a controversy with the Chemapol CEO in 1998.

Only one year later Chemapol surprisingly went bankrupt and sold Drnovice for 15 Million Czech Crowns to Persport that belonged to former tennis player Tomáš Petera.

In a dubious transaction in March 2001 Gottvald sold the club to a widely unknown company called Corimex.

The club's financial problems became so immense that it was forced to sell nine players to Marila Příbram only some weeks before the end of the season.

After failing to find other partners who would help funding football in Drnovice, Sunstone sold all shares to Jan Gottvald and his son Robert for approximately 10 Million Czech crowns, a sum which never was confirmed.

The team achieved its third promotion in a row by winning the Vyškov county championship (Okresní přebor) in the 2009–10 season.