With the Rapperswil team, he found himself in a special “vacuum” – they avoided rescue mayors, but promotion to the playoffs of the Swiss league remained distant. And so the club season for Roman Červenka ended at the beginning of March. He wasn’t lazy, he went on the ice, only last week he jumped to the sea with his family. And while she subsequently stayed in Switzerland due to her son’s school duties, he is now a “straw widower” at home in Prague and has been training the national team before the World Cup from day one.
“Of course, I didn’t want the team season to be so short, but on the other hand, it can be used, because you can rest and better prepare for the national team. There is no need to talk about motivation,” says the forward. “It is necessary to train, to regenerate. I want to be prepared, so I have to take care of myself. And if you want to do it properly, it’s almost a full day’s work.”
He is not a rhetorician from whom you would hear big statements, so it certainly does not fall out of his mouth that at his age the championship in Prague could be a nice end to a representative career dominated by gold from the World Championship. “End? I don’t have him in my head. I’m going day by day, every day I’m going to try to do something to move somewhere. And then he possibly timed it for the championship. I’m fighting for him, just like everyone,” he says without emotion.
He is a greaser in the national team, so he knows very well that six weeks is a very long time when a lot can happen regarding the nomination. A certain advantage may be that other considered players from European competitions who have already dropped out of the playoffs should soon join the training. The core will be together for several weeks.
“It can be an advantage. The crew and the cabin somehow form, the more time you spend together, the more you build something there. Whether it’s chemistry on the ice or in the locker room. There can be something good in everything bad, and now that the seasons are over for us, we can take advantage of that,” he says.
Photo: Vlastimil Vacek, Sport.cz
Roman Červenka during the national team training camp in Říčany.
He himself already experienced the World Championship in Prague’s O2 Arena in 2015. He knows what an exceptional situation it is for a player. “It’s special and different. There is pressure, but on the other hand, the preparation and everything around it is the same.”
Two preparatory duels against Germany await him next week in Karlovy Vary. Austria and Slovakia follow. “I haven’t played for a while so I’ll welcome getting into it. They are tough opponents and it’s always a kind of test where you get feedback on what you need to work on.”
Nomination of the national team for the 1st preparatory camp before the WC
Lukáš Klimeš (Vítkovice)
Dominik Frodl (Karlovy Vary)
Filip Pyrochta (Mladá Boleslav)
Libor Zábranský (Ässät Pori/Fin.)
Andrej Šustr (Cologne/Germany)
Roman Červenka (Rapperswil-Jona Lakers/Switzerland)
Jiří Černoch (Karlovy Vary)
Ondřej Beránek (Karlovy Vary)
Jakub Rychlovský (Liberec)
Michael Špaček (Ambrì-Piotta/Switzerland)
Jakub Flek (Brno – will join on Thursday)
2024-04-04 12:26:00
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