Premier League The Czech half has eight goals in the Premier and is key in the ‘hammers’
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West Ham is a rock. The team of David Moyes is settled in the Champions area and showing muscle with Michael Antonio, Diop, Rice … and a Tomas Soucek (Havlckuv Brod, Czech Republic, 1995) unstoppable. “He’s so good … People don’t realize how much he’s done. He runs, he’s strong, he hits the area, he’s in a good head … To be undoubtedly West Ham’s ‘Player of the Year’ and deserves, “said Rice, the second captain of some ‘hammers’ in which the Czech half is a hammer.
The former Slavia Prague comes out of heels in his area and reaches the goal in the rival without disheveled. A ‘box to box’ that has run, on average, 13 kilometers since it landed in the Premier League in January 2020 … thanks to a family secret. “My mother gave me this ability. She played handball when she was younger, but for the last 15 years she has been running half marathons and marathons. I think she won the Prague marathon her age. And sometimes when I was younger, I accompanied her to run to the forest “, assured in ‘Mirror’ a Soucek always united to the sport.
“My great inspiration was my family because my father also took me to my first training session. He was the coach, he played as a goalkeeper and my whole family was very sporty. They took me to Prague, 100 kilometers from my city, to be a footballer. It was tough. They are the best support I could have, “said a media outlet that, during the first confinement due to the coronavirus in the United Kingdom, put his shoes back on among the trees and the grass of Hackney Marshes, an area washed by the River Lea northeast of London: “I took a ball and some cones and did a normal training … individually. My wife sometimes gave me the ball and helped me. I enjoyed them with my daughter and her. It was incredible.”
The ‘lockdown’ did not cut the trajectory of a Soucek that became ‘great’ in the Czech Republic idolizing Pavel Nedved and Tomas Rosicky. Loans on the sidelines, he made his mark on Jindrich Trpisovsky’s surprising Slavia Prague as captain, scoring 40 goals in three and a half seasons and shining in the 2019-20 Champions League. “They had a very tough group with Borussia Dortmund, Inter and Barcelona. He scored two goals and got away with footballers like Messi. He also scored in the Europa League against Chelsea. He is a very complete medium and a scorer. It has been a wonderful signing for West Ham. A stroke of genius, “ex-hammer David Connolly declared on ‘talkSPORT’ about a Soucek that was bought for € 16 million last summer – a bargain.
His impact on the Premier was instant and total. “It was a brilliant purchase. We can’t hide it anymore. It brings us a lot. When you sign up, you always keep in mind that footballers will need time to adjust. Tomas had played the Champions League, he was an international and captain of Slavia, so he was mature despite being young. But his scoring ability, running, his attitude … they have been great and we hope he reaches more, for sure “, confessed a Moyes surrendered to Soucek.
In the current English League, the Czech ‘midfielder’ accumulates eight goals, none of them from penalties and all from within the area. Among the media, only Bruno Fernandes (15 points), Gndogan (11) and Barnes (nine) surpass him. Already last season, in the middle of the campaign after crystallizing his transfer to London, he signed three goals. Taking advantage of his arrival and his size (1.92 meters), mixed with Moyes’ slate, he is swelling: he has already celebrated three header goals. “I told my players to watch out for set pieces, which we knew were very strong. Moyes has found his new Fellaini in Soucek “, revealed Mourinho after West Ham’s surprising draw (3-3) at Tottenham’s home in which the media dominated the skies.
An opportunism of the 25-year-old midfielder with an audiovisual ‘trick’. “When I get home after a game I can’t sleep. The plays go through my head. What I did right, what wrong … and sometimes I see the encounters again. The first training session is the one I do in the field and the second the one I see on television, analyzing where I should improve, “Soucek said on CBS Sports. The cameras played a trick on him this campaign (he was sent off at Fulham- West Ham for a fortuitous blow to the face to Mitrovic which was later revoked) and they raised him to the altars also against Tottenham. “His reaction blocking the shot after receiving a header was magnificent,” said former player Trevor Sinclair. blocking a kick after ‘head splitting’, bloody, is all I want to see in a footballer, “proclaimed former Jamie O’Hara. Soucek is pure pundon.
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