“All this covid, he deprived me of national team starts,” Jaroš recalls that he last defended the gate of the Czech youth team at the age of 18 in May 2016 at the Slovakia Cup in Banská Bystrica, Zvolen and other Slovak cities.
“But then came the coronavirus pandemic, and we didn’t play at 19. One match after another has been canceled, “he explains the long wait for the next national team start.
Twenty-one during training in Andorra.Photo: FACR
Even at the age of twenty-one, he had to wait for him, because his peer Matěj Kovář, who coincidentally also worked on the Islands, was given priority. He caught all seven of the previous twenty-one qualifying duels in order to make room for his one-year-younger partner Jaroš in Andorra until now.
In a duel with an outsider of the group, but on a treacherous artificial surface, where all the national teams of Andorra play their matches.
“The last time I caught an artist was when I was a guest in Ireland,” recalls Jaroš at the St. Patrick Athletic Club, with which he won the Irish Cup and helped him finish second in the league.
“In the goal, one has to watch out for another, often unexpected bounce of the ball. And during passes, again, the fact that the balloon does not slip so much on the artist and sometimes even stalls when it does not rain or the surface of the field is not wet. But you can get used to it quickly, “it doesn’t irritate him that he will make his premiere at the gate of the twenty-first.
He doesn’t even bother that he probably won’t be in permanence and won’t catch much. The young men in Andorra’s jerseys and in home games usually defend hard and wait for the opportunity to counterattack. That is, if they are offered.
Goalkeeper Vítězslav Jaroš
“I’m used to that, too,” Jaros explains, saying that many Notts County matches where he currently hosts have a similar course. what kind of match they are for me, “he describes how it goes in the English fifth league.
“I went on hosting to catch as many matches as possible. I’ve been in Nottingham for a month and a half, and I’ve caught twelve games in that time, so I’m very happy, “he said, praising him in Notts County and helping him return to the Czech Lion Gate.
Winning over Andorra this evening at the Estadio Nacional is, of course, an obligation for them, the fulfillment of which in the June home duel will offer them the opportunity to fight for the English for first place in the group and thus direct promotion to the small EURO next year in Romania and Georgia.
“We are all looking forward to the June match with the English. And I believe that we will be prepared so that we can manage it and get to the final tournament, “Jaroš, who left for England five years ago from Prague’s Slavia, does not hide it.
