Nestrašila awaits the premiere Czech final. Sparta? It’s a bomb! he says

“I have to say, I’m really looking forward to it. Even when Hradec Králové was eliminated and we went to Mladá Boleslav in the semifinals, and not to Sparta, so I thought it would be great if it came out in the finals. In the end, it worked out, which is a bomb, “rejoices the pupil of Prague’s Slavia Nestrašil. The opening duel of the expected battle will take place on Monday from 5 pm in Třinec.

You have before you the premier extra-league finals in your career, moreover against Sparta. What do you expect from him?

That there will be a great atmosphere in both arenas and, as always, it will be difficult even matches.

Is it not sad that only five thousand people can fit in the stands in Třinec, while seventeen can fit in the O2 Arena in Prague?

She’s not sorry. On the contrary, I think that sometimes the little winter can have an even better atmosphere. There will be more people in Prague, but when our hall comes full, we know that these people are really fans of Třinec.

In the basic part, you always won over Sparta. What to watch out for in the final duel?

It’s a very good offensive team, for me there is the best extra-league player Filip Chlapík, who has a lot of points, is handy in advance. Unfortunately, they lost David Tomášek. But every line has a good one – I don’t mean a pair – because it’s always complemented by someone else who does a lot of black work. They have handy backs for that. It’s a very good team.

Will your excellent defense apply to them as well?

We will hope that our style will apply to them. But I think it will be even harder. It was a tough match with Vítkovice and Boleslav, they fought incredibly. And Sparta is a little further in quality. It is possible that the chances we have allowed our opponents so far, which did not end in a goal, could be punished by Sparta.

What will the Slavic be like for you? Is there still any rivalry in you?

Probably not. I’ve been away for a long time, plus I was born in Holešovice, about three minutes from the Spartan hall. When we were little, Dad took us to Sparta. For the battles against Vsetín. Sparta is a concept in the extra league, we want to beat it in every match.

Why didn’t you settle in the Holešovice hall as a boy?

Dad will be here on Monday, I’ll tell you where he’s sitting, so you can ask him. (laughter) I really have no idea if Slavia had better youth at the time or what. I don’t know what was behind that decision.

And will the younger brother Spartan be here? In what jersey?

It won’t. He is fifteen years old, so his older brother doesn’t care about him at all. I think he’ll be happy to take time off. Since I was fourteen years away, and he’s fifteen, so even though we try to be in the contract, the age difference is huge. I try to help him in his hockey growth from time to time, but we are in other stages of life. He is a teenager, so he does not care about his older brother’s opinion. In any case, in my opinion, the whole family will support Třinec.

He will probably come there, but he will be forbidden to wear a jersey other than a steel one.

Your brother sent you Spartan baby clothes for your son. Have you got rid of him yet?

It’s in the barracks, but buried a lot downstairs.

Do you feel about the coach who announced that he was leaving, that it would affect him? Is he nostalgic?

You’ve probably interviewed him before … He doesn’t care if he’s leaving tomorrow or in a month. He just wants to be better, best, win every day, so some nostalgia is out of the question for him. We come to training, we go to work, we improve. When we go home, we know that the same day we will have the same thing.

In the basic part, there were shootings with Sparta. Are you expecting wilderness again, or will it be more like in the quarterfinals and semifinals?

There may be a match that shoots, but I don’t think the results will be similar to the basic part. In fact, matches from the basic part do not count at all, it is again 0: 0. Sparta had a crisis, injured players, we can’t count on it to be the same. Now it’s the playoffs, whether more or fewer goals are scored in a match, it doesn’t matter.