Where did the shooter come from?
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We deal with it at home with my father (coach Zbuzan in the CFL) and my brother (Martin, now working in Vlašim), because we watch football from morning to evening. We laugh about it and analyze it. It occurs to us that experience can play a role. I’ve been in the league for a while now, I’ve won. First, I needed to gain experience where I believed. I came from Dukla like a bek, I believed there and I was put in this position only by coach Jarolím, who gave me confidence. I think if he hadn’t put me there, God knows where I’d be today. Coach Hoftych moved me higher. The attacking player has to score goals, so I try to shoot them. But I didn’t do anything special, I didn’t change anything, I’m still doing my job the way I set it up. This is how it turned out naturally.
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Do you feel that the position on the wing suits you more than on the edge of the defense?
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I am learning new things in this position, which I want and in a way I need. I perceive different spaces on the midfielder, different players, I have to work completely differently. I enjoy football, I’m happy with every touch and moment on the field. I don’t have a problem playing beka or the wing, I’ve dealt with it a lot before. I was also upset when I felt I wasn’t winning and the coaches pushed me to the wing. Now that has changed, I’m more experienced, I don’t care what I play. I know exactly what to expect.
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Do you admit that the team relies more on you now?
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No. I always go humble day after day. Every night I realize where I started and where I would be if I didn’t go to Boleslav. But I definitely don’t think I should pull anything. I’m rather glad that I repaid the goals of the team and the whole club.
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Coach Jozef Weber tested you on the wing in Boleslav. Didn’t you feel like this post yet? Have you talked about it?
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I am that when there is a problem, I need to say it right away and know what I am up to. I came to Boleslav as a defender. Coach Weber replaced me from the defender after the first half in Budějovice, the match did not work for us overall. But out of nowhere, I wasn’t a defender for him, which I didn’t understand. Then I went to the wing and I knew it was wrong not to play there. I didn’t succeed, so of course I didn’t play. I went to the assistants and told them I would like to play beka. They told me not to have height, experience, defense. But I felt what was inside me. You have to trust yourself on the pitch and I didn’t trust my midfielder at the beginning. I knew it was bad. I also went to coach Weber, who explained to me why he didn’t want to put me on back. Then he replaced me there for 15 minutes at Bohemka, we lost 0: 3. I had a few centers ahead, but then we got the fourth goal after center to my side. The first time I analyzed the video, I said that I wanted to play the defender, but the goal went over me because I did not cover the back post.
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That must have been a difficult situation for you, wasn’t it?
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The end of the autumn part was approaching, I felt that I needed a change and to go somewhere. However, coach Weber was dismissed and Mr. Jarolím came, who also put me first as a midfielder in the match in Liberec, which I did not succeed. It was the penultimate match of autumn, I didn’t play the last match, and I thought I would probably never play in the league again. I had a very difficult time in football life, but I had to deal with it. I told my assistant Boris Kočí that I felt like a defender and that I would like to be tested there. But the preparation came and it was circulating after Boleslav that coach Jarolím would want to replace ninety percent of the team. I was at the last wheel of the car at the time, so you can probably imagine how I felt. I thought I didn’t stand a chance and I was done. However, we started training, coach Jarolím put me on the right defender and I started to blossom slowly. I thought every day that now was the chance and I had to show up. Then Radim Řezník came, but before the general he got a covid, I got a chance and he didn’t let her go. I was grateful to be able to play Beka.
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And under the current coach Pavel Hoftych, you moved to the wing.
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But when he came, I almost tore the contract. He saw me more on the wing, but the first thing he told me was that I couldn’t defend myself. That’s a welcome, I thought. I was depressed. I had clues that I threw the one we’re scoring because I can’t defend. I wondered what was going on. In Slovácko, I scored a goal from the position of midfielder, but I could have penalized. A week later there was a video and from five minutes I was negatively evaluated three and a half minutes ago. You defend badly here, you move badly here, you can be penalized. I was leaving training and I thought I wouldn’t keep pardoning on my head. Then I scored against Karviná, I was excited, we won, but it still creaked. It all culminated in a funny scene.
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David Douděra from Mladá Boleslav shoots in the match against Olomouc.Photo: FK Mladá Boleslav
We played a model match and coach Hoftych replaced me at half-time and told me to go jogging. I thought it was over, but I knew I couldn’t untie myself from the position of a 23-year-old dude, drop them, and leave. I knew I couldn’t do this, I had respect for the club, but I really had it in me. I didn’t tell anyone, but I thought I’d quit. I thought I was writing off that I didn’t like the coach. We played the mentioned model match, which was whistled by assistant Marek Kulič. I scolded him terribly because he didn’t whistle at me. I already had it all in me and I couldn’t do it mentally. I scolded him to go somewhere, that he was whistling against me. At the same time, I consider Marek Kulič to be an excellent football player, with Matěják (Marek Matějovský) I respect him most here in Boleslav. I knew I was exaggerating, I have respect for experienced players. Immediately after training, I went to apologize to him and explained that I could not stand it emotionally. I would agree if he fired me. When we were talking, I told him I felt like I was writing off. That I go to the gym with the younger ones, I take turns at the half-time in a model match that I don’t know what’s going on. He told me, ‘What are you talking about, Dude, it’s not like that at all, Coach Hoftych just wanted you to rest.’ I had almost tears in my eyes, I understood that was not the case.
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Did you talk to coach Hoftych?
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Yes, I went to him saying that I had to talk, because I needed to know what I was up to. I told him I felt like shooting, because I can’t defend, goals are actually useless, and if he doesn’t want me. He looked at me and told me what I was crazy about, and he explained everything to him from his point of view. He made it clear to me beautifully, he told me that he saw me more on the wing, that I reminded him of Malínský. Before, I perceived everything badly. As I walked out of the cab, I almost knocked. I almost tore the contract, in fact everything was different. I was glad to talk to him, I knew what I was up to, I got calm. I’ve been happy ever since, I think that’s how it started. I didn’t play two matches due to cards and illness, but then it started, I started scoring goals.
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One of the league’s discoveries should be in the search for top clubs. Excerpt from the show Přímák.Video: Sport.cz
Thanks to them, it can be assumed that you will be interested in you in the summer. Are you solving it?
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I have never dealt with the future. The girlfriend had a problem with that at the beginning of the relationship. When she asked where we were going in a fortnight, I told her I didn’t know it was Monday, so let her enjoy Monday. The whole family is living what it is now, we didn’t plan what would happen in a month or a year. I continue to do that, the path I have lived so far has led me somewhere. I don’t want to change it. I can’t answer the future. Yeah Al that sounds pretty crap to me, Looks like BT aint for me either. I will solve everything after the season, I am satisfied in Boleslav. If nothing comes out, I’ll be happy to continue. Why go somewhere when you are satisfied? But of course every player wants to move higher, this also applies to me. But if I had to go somewhere, I would need security again and know that it makes sense to me. That I’m not going there as the twenty-fifth player, but to fight for the place. Definitely not because of the money. I create the path myself, not that the manager tells me, ‘They’ll give you five hundred thousand over there, go.’ This does not exist. I need to know why I’m going there, that there will be a good environment for me. That’s how we think about it at home with my dad and brother.
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And internally, do you feel for a possible move to one team from the top three? When I listen to you live in football, you definitely watch how they are in Slavia, Sparta and Pilsen.
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I just didn’t think about it yet, I didn’t want to deal with it. I don’t put it in my head because I know that the player can get lost very quickly. If you look at Sparta, for example, who is there, you will quickly forget where you are and you will close your mouth very quickly. I’m careful in this regard. Of course, I watch everything, it just stopped me when Mr. Rajnoch talked on your show Přímák that our family is Slavic. I would like to put this in perspective. Yes, my brother is a Slavist, but Dad was never a Slavist, even though he trained there. He has always been a Spartan. And I will keep a neutral position.
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How do you feel at home that your brother is a Slavist and Dad a Spartan?
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Even Matěják (Marek Matějovský) asked me about it. But we have never been a fan of tackling Sparta against Slavia. We’ve always been kind of open. My brother went on the path of Slavia, my father trained there for a while. On the other hand, if you are a coach and the offer comes only from Slavia and not from Sparta, then why not use it? We are reasonable in this regard, we do not take it by betraying someone.
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