Despite the great disappointment, will you continue to drive you the idea that you will ever play Serie and ever?
Clearly. I perceive that I will not have a lot of chances to have the Italian league. But I don’t give up that dream. Sure, they’re jumping for years, but the motivation is still there. Keeps me on a positive wave. I think – why couldn’t we advance in a year?
But the cadre of SPEZIE will undergo change. At least you lost the 19gole attacker PIA Espositita, which Inter withdrawn from hosting.
Pio has a huge quality, and he’s a great boy. The beginnings in Speebike were complex. When he came two years ago, he failed. He dropped the chances, people whistled at him. Now he scored nineteen goals. Of course we will miss. It will be very important for the leadership to bring good players. Then it is up to us to create a good bunch, a good team. Serie B is extremely challenging, beaten. There are strong clubs behind which are strong sponsors. Every year the competition is harder.
In the Czech Republic, however, the series B looks more or less through the fingers. Do you feel that you have come out of your eyes that few people know about you?
That’s exactly what it is. People in the Czech Republic do not take the second Italian league in the Czech Republic. If they were to choose between the second German League and the Seria B, they would clearly prefer the first. The second Bundesligs teams have nice stadiums that are full. Fifty thousand visitors are common. I would not see the difference between competitions qualitatively. There was a boy who had experience from the second Bundesliga. He didn’t succeed here. He said Serie B was harder. But to go back to the question – yes, I’m not in my eyes, I’m as tidy. But I am very happy in Spezia.
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Aleš Matějů still in the jersey of Pilsen
The return to the Czech league is probably not in the game.
I got one offer from the Czech club. I will not be specific. In this transfer period, however, I will certainly not return to the Czech league. I have a contract for two more seasons, maybe we will talk about its extension. At least I would like to follow the existing contract. Both sides are satisfied, there is no reason to change the jersey. In addition, the son starts going to kindergarten in Italy.
But if you have an interesting offer from the Czech league, would you consider it?
She would have to make sense to me. Not only financially, but also in terms of visions, the future. What I know for sure is that if I returned now, only to a club from the top of the table.
Slavia, Sparta, Pilsen, Baník – would that make sense?
I will answer differently. I have been in Italy for seven years, I know well that the Czech league is not so serious here. Even the boys from Serie B. Sometimes my teammates are poking me. When I recently told one of them that Slavia would play the Champions League, if he wouldn’t be attracted to this, he told me he wouldn’t go. He is home, enjoying life with all the positives offered by Italy. Of course I know the quality of the Czech league, although I have no personal experience for a few years. It is a challenging, very physical competition. I never want to close the door to it, but at the same time I don’t push anywhere.
Is Italy your other home?
Often people ask me if we stay with my family in Italy and career. But I have a home in the Czech Republic. I will be happy to go back to Italy, I have a lot of friends here. It’s my heart matter. But home is just home. Every time in the Czech Republic I think this is where I want to be.
Have you been abroad since 2017. How much did you affect you as a footballer?
I have changed me a lot. If I didn’t go into the world, I would have a worse career. I wouldn’t get to such a level. Abroad made me a real professional. Maybe I have come to it with age, but the engagement and life of abroad accelerated the transformation. I mature, ripened. I stood on my feet. I became a guy. Even outside football. I was also influenced by the well -known negative event. I know one hundred percent that I will never sit behind the wheel under the influence of alcohol.
At that time, you were very lucky that it was only the sheets.
I realize it well. I did total stupidity, bullshit. If I hurt someone, for example, my teammates I took, or someone in the parking lot where we flew … It would be a punishment for me for the rest of my life. It was also lucky that no one sat in the back of the car, he could not survive. Thank you fate that nothing happened to anyone.
Have you blamed you for a long time?
Of course I was very bad about it. But because nothing happened to anyone, I got out of it quite quickly. I realized that life could change in one second. I want to enjoy it, but at the same time not to do stupidity, not to expose myself or other danger. I never sit with alcohol again. The accident has punished me for the rest of my life, and if my experience of just one young person moves a little or forces to think, it would be great.
Are you not sorry that you have been waiting in vain for an invitation from the national team for three years?
We are at that Serie B. We have had a fantastic season behind us, we had the best defensive of all teams. In the Czech Republic, however, this competition does not take anyone. Before the meetings, I thought to myself that I might get into a wider nomination. Did not get. No one even contacted me. Which is okay, every coach has the right to take into the ribbon who he wants. I am absolutely cool and I work on. If the chance comes, I’ll be ready.
Do you consider the representation a closed chapter?
At all! I am open to represent, I will do my best to return to the hardboard. At least for one meeting.
