“I have a plan. But I will announce it when the time is right,” Havelková said in a press release from Sport Invest.
Markéta Nausch Sluková also wants to fight her way to the Paris Olympics after her maternity break. The two-time European Championship medalist and participant in the London and Rio de Janeiro games played until last year with Barbora Hermann and will also be looking for a new partner.
Helena HavelkováPhoto: Jana Mensatorova / Nedori
Havelkova played the last match in the hall on Saturday in the Italian league for Perugia, where she spent the last two years. “Six-volleyball has already given me everything,” said the 188-inch-tall smuggler, who four times ran the home poll for the best volleyball player of the year.
“I do not regret the only day I spent on the field. I have loved volleyball since I was a child and I have always done my best to be the best player in my position, “looks back. The sportsman has looked back on me. “On the day when I can play, because everything can be gone in one second. I also learned a lot of languages, got to know new countries and tried different types of volleyball,” he calculates.
After her beginnings in Liberec, the Liberec offspring worked in Slavia, then foreign stations arrived in five countries. In Italy she played for Sassuolo, Busto Arsizio, Monza and Perugia, in Russia she defended the colors of Krasnodar and Dinama Moskva, as well as engagements in Eczacıbası Istanbul, Turkey, Polish Police Police and Shanghai in China.
After returning from Russia, the elite Czech volleyball player Helena Havelková played for Bartoccini Fortinfissi Perugia in the highest Italian league.Photo: Bartoccini Fortinfissi Perugia
“I have had a really beautiful career. He gave me something every year and helped me where I am now. But my favorite memory is 2012, when I played in Arsizio – we lost only two matches in the whole season, I was the captain, I got my first triple and we had sold out for each match. After the matches, we took a long time with the girls and signed for the fans. What more could you want in volleyball, “recalls Havelková, who celebrated titles in Italy, Russia, Poland and Turkey, won the CEV Cup, has a silver medal from the Champions League and won the title of the best volleyball player in the Czech Republic several times.
“It was a really rich and victorious career. I traveled the world, at the club level I won everything I could. I’m incredibly grateful for that, “says Havelková.” But I feel that six-volleyball has already given me everything he could. so strong that even though I will miss volleyball terribly, it is worth it, “she said about the planned fight for a five-lap start.
“I want to continue to represent my country, but from home – to come under the Czech flag, to fight for the Czech colors, that is a very strong motive for me. I also want to continue to develop my story. This challenge attracts me a lot,” said Havelková. start working on the transition to sand.
“As a six-volleyball player, I moved myself to my top. Physically, technically and mentally. Now a completely new sports world will open up for me. Right after the season, I want to start training and catch up with the differences that exist between six volleyball and beach volleyball. I would also like to be a role model for the younger generation that everything goes and everything is possible. Help to break maybe a taboo that solves more players, whether to play beach volleyball or six volleyball. That’s why I want to share my Olympic story for inspiration as much as possible. I’m really looking forward to it, “she smiled.
The chairman of the volleyball association, Marek Pakosta, praised her as the most successful Czech volleyball player of the last decade. “She achieved top results both in the European Cups and in the foreign leagues in which she worked. I appreciate the fact that even when she already had a name and a career abroad, she always took an active approach to the national team. I probably won’t be far from the truth. when I say that in the Czech Republic, due to the fact that she played abroad, her achievements are underestimated, “says Marek Pakosta, chairman of the Czech Volleyball Association.
“I applaud Helena for her six-volleyball volleyball and wish her well into the next phase of her career,” added Pakosta, a participant in the premiere Olympic beach volleyball tournament in Atlanta in 1996.
