As a teenager, guarding the sanctuary of the youth teams of Slavia Prague, he looked out for FC Janov in 2011. However, the almost two-meter-tall native of Opočno never captured Serie A, although he belonged to the team from the north of Italy for exactly ten years. After alternately traveling through the lower competitions on the Apennine Peninsula and sitting on the bench or the stands in Genoa, he was a guest at Livorno between 2018 and 2020, where he played 31 games in Serie B in two years. Before last season, his contract in Genoa expired and Zima left the position he moved the free agent to Venlo in the Netherlands.
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Last year he played in seventeen duels here, but in the spring he rather covered the back of the Dutchman van Crooij. After his departure, he got the opportunity to show off right at the beginning of this year’s second Dutch league, and he literally grabbed it by the scruff of the neck. Thanks to four saves, he kept a clean sheet in this year’s league premiere. Probably the most difficult situation was solved by Zima in the 30th minute, when his team was leading by a goal. After all, he literally stopped the finish from the edge of the small area on the goal line twice.
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Zima, who for the Czech twenty-one team as the number one between the sticks captured, for example, the not very successful European under-21 championship five years ago, but he is not the only native in the Venla squad. In the south of the Netherlands, he also joins 23-year-old Richard Sedláček, a midfielder who four years ago traded Sparta Prague for AZ Alkmaar and moved to Venlo in the middle of last season.
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SofaScore’s statistical rating is a response to the growing need to quantify player performances. What the average football fan sees during a telecast in statistics is only a fraction of the data collected during a match.
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There are approximately 1,500 different events in each match that can be reflected in the numbers of what happened on the pitch. Operators manually record data and collect information on aspects such as ball possession, passes, tackles, runs, runs, loop attempts, chances, shots and more.
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Michal Sadílek in Twente Enschede jersey.Photo: fctwente.nl
The goal is to derive useful information from these statistics that would adequately summarize the player’s performance.
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“Our team of data analysts worked hard for a year, analyzing hundreds of matches, identifying key performance indicators and assigning a value to each one. We approached football as a complex dynamic system in which everyone has a specific role. The end result is a sophisticated algorithm that generates player ratings on a scale of 10, depending on what they performed during their time on the pitch,” the company explains.
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