Without four centimeters, the two-meter goalkeeper transferred to Genoa, Italy, in his teens, and a bright future was predicted for him. Despite the fact that he regularly featured in all youth categories of the national team, his development stalled. He never got a taste of the famous Serie A in Italy, although he was a part of Genoa’s A-team for several years. So he traveled on loan in lower competitions on the Apennine Peninsula, after which he disappeared to Venlo in the Netherlands in the summer of 2021 as a free agent. To be precise – the second division.
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When he joined Petrolul before the current season, it was still true that he had never won a top flight during his career. At the age of twenty-nine…
But Romania seems to be Winter’s promised land. In an interview for Sport.cz in October, he already praised his then new engagement. Also because he finally tasted the sweet role of the first league number one. “I don’t want to shout it. But every keeper likes to catch and show what he’s got. I appreciate it and hope that it will continue,” said the namesake of the national team stopper David.
It’s probably safe to say it’s ongoing. Zima was not missing between the posts in any of the twenty-three league matches, in which he kept ten clean sheets, one of them in the last duel with Otelula. Which puts him tied for first among all goalkeepers along with FCSB’s Stefano Tarnovanu.
But he defends the colors of the leader of the table and the favorite to win the title, while Zim’s Petrolul is only ninth. Thanks to the Czech goalkeeper, it has the second best defense in the competition (just after FCSB), but offensively? Undiluted, pure misery and the third worst offense in the league.
After all, as Zima himself admitted in the aforementioned October interview, this is not a short-term problem. “We know that we are not very successful in scoring goals,” he said at the time.
He personally, on the other hand, is exceedingly successful in preventing goals. After all, in the last match against Otelulu, Zima et al. for the clearly shorter end, the opponent won by a striking difference both in percentage of ball possession (65:35) and shots between the three posts (7:2). However, the almost two-meter tall man did not allow the opponent to score. Already the tenth time in the season.
2024-01-29 21:41:29
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