Petr ÄŒech on his time during Chelsea and finishing in character with Arsenal
On a life of a goalkeeper …
A goalkeeper is like an particular competition within a common sport. You can have a large impact on games. we suffer creation large saves; some people suffer scoring goals, we have a same compensation when we make a large save.
You see all in front of we as well, and it kind of gives we a conductor’s rod in your hand: we can pierce people around and we see things happening, and afterwards in a finish we are a final male during a back.
On fasten Chelsea …
I sealed in Jan [2004] and stayed in France until a finish of a season. That was unequivocally important, since it meant we had 6 months to prepare. we didn’t wish to go loyal in and find myself bettering to a new [style of] football, a new team, a new league. we had 6 months to watch each Chelsea game.
I had a large task. Carlo Cudicini had been voted actor of a season, and we consider ‘Wow, I’ll have tough competition’. At a same time, when José Mourinho arrived everybody had a uninformed start. we did all we could so that he would select me for a initial game, that he did.
On winning 13 vital trophies with Chelsea …
Like a dream come true. You feel like, ‘OK, this is all we wanted to do, and now we have a event to do it during a large team, in a best joining in a world’. You’re fighting for titles, something that we saw as a child on TV. You wish that one day we will be a partial of these teams, and afterwards unexpected it’s happening.
I enjoyed a environment, when we are pushed to a limit, and it’s unequivocally adult to we how good we do. Then it’s a compensation of carrying won a initial title, a second title, and as we contend in Czech, ‘He who cooking a lot wants to eat more.’
On relocating to Arsenal in 2015 …
I wanted to stay in a Premier League, we wanted to play and we felt we was still during a tip of my game. we came to a bar that had never won a Champions League, that had never won a Europa League. we thought, ‘You know, that’s because they wish me here and this is what I’m going to try to do’.
One of a reasons we came to Arsenal was to try and win a European prize for a club. My dream was to come here and for it to finish a same approach it did with Chelsea.
On confronting Chelsea in Baku …
As shortly as a quarter-final and a semi-final pull was made, we could see we were on conflicting sides of a draw. Then we was thinking, ‘OK, it’s coming; it’s coming!’ It’s predestine and hopefully a dream will come loyal in a finish with a trophy. That will be a ideal ending.
I’m unapproachable of a turn of my opening over 15 years in a Premier League, and 20 years as a veteran player. I’ve set a unequivocally high customary in all I’ve finished and I’ve kept it going until a final day.