Finish your career at home – such a motto is coined by the management of the Ústí club, which appeals to the natives to come and support the team fighting in the second league for bare survival. One of the experienced players who started playing football on the Elbe is the 33-year-old captain Vít Beneš from Olomouc.
You are a native of Ústí nad Labem. Didn’t you get the lasso to go home?
Officially nothing yet, no one has contacted me. I’m in Sigma, I’m happy, we’ll see what happens in the future, anything can happen in football.
However, you still have a relationship with the Ústí region. I’m not wrong?
I have a family there, parents, brothers, grandmothers, a bite of friends. I certainly did not forget about Ústí. I started at the Ravel club, had a playground in the Klíše district, not far from the sports basketball hall and ice rink.
Unfortunately, the training center no longer exists. But the football field is still there, artificial grass was built, the plan was for the area to serve the youth of the armature, who plays in the second league. The time for sports is difficult, money is hard to come by.
When Ústí played the first league in 2010/2011, didn’t the club attract you back?
At that time I played for Jablonec, he played regularly, we fought for European cups. And it’s been many years. If I look at the Ústí list now, I don’t know almost anyone anymore. They’re younger boys than me, I was in armature at fifteen.
The team is now led by the Jarolím brothers, goalkeeper Jaromír Blažek. Wouldn’t it be worth playing under the guidance of such personalities?
It’s a fantastic trio, it’s great for Ústí nad Labem players that such guys train them. It is a great experience for them and they can only benefit from it.
Do you believe that Ústí can rise again in football and re-enter the highest competition?
Why not, I just wish I could play against him. Or for them.
