Tomáš Rosický retires: how good has he been?
Tomáš Rosický has reliable he is unresolved adult his boots during a age of 37, a former Arsenal and Dortmund midfielder carrying suffered one too many injuries after returning to his initial club, Sparta Praha, in 2016. “It got harder and harder to ready for games,” he pronounced during a press discussion hold during Sparta’s training base. “My mind always wanted to play though my physique refused, and recently my mind started to feel a same way, so we knew a preference was coming.” UEFA.com celebrates one of a greatest – and unluckiest – midfielders of his age.
What they say
“He had all a football qualities to play a diversion we adore to play here, and we would contend Tomáš Rosický was a ideal actor for Arsenal. we personally, like we all do here, adore a player. We adore a male as well, and his attitude, and his well-developed category and qualities … for me it was a payoff to conduct him.”
Arsène Wenger, Arsenal manager
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Tomáš Rosický today, with his initial Sparta shirt
“He is one of a best-ever Czech players, and we have had so many good players. He is right among them. Every time we see him playing, we see what a shining actor he is.”
Petr ÄŒech, Arsenal and Czech Republic goalkeeper
“Within a week of fasten Arsenal, examination Tomáš sight and carrying him play alongside me, we knew he was one of a many underrated players.”
Mikel Arteta, former Arsenal team-mate
“My statue was always Tomáš Rosický. He was phenomenal. He had such a good eye for an opening and knew where his team-mates were, and he was so quick. we copied all about him – right down to his sweatbands. He was so detrimental he had bad injuries during Arsenal because, otherwise, he would be one of a world’s best players.”
Marco Reus, Dortmund forward
Final tally
International: 103 appearances, 21 goals
UEFA bar competition: 96 appearances, 11 goals
Domestic competition: 410 appearances, 54 goals
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Rosický during Sparta in 1999
Claims to fame
Sparta Praha
• Young actor of a year in a Czech Republic in 1999, Rosický won titles in his initial dual seasons with Sparta, withdrawal for Dortmund in Jan 2001 after carrying scored twice in a 2000/01 UEFA Champions League organisation theatre – including a idea during Highbury opposite destiny employers Arsenal.
• Rejoined Sparta during a age of 35 in summer 2016, scoring his ninth – and final – Czech joining idea for a bar in Sep 2017, in a 2-0 win opposite Karviná.
• Made his 96th and final UEFA bar foe entrance in a 1-0 home detriment to Crvena zvezda in UEFA Europa League subordinate in Aug 2017. Only 5 Czechs have played some-more European games: Petr Čech (127), Pavel Nedvěd (119), Tomáš Hübschmann (113), Marek Suchý (98) and Libor Sionko (97).
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Rosický won a Bundesliga pretension during Dortmund
Borussia Dortmund
• Signed for DM25m (450m Czech crowns), Rosický became a Bundesliga’s many costly unfamiliar signing – during roughly €9m – and a many costly Czech actor ever. Bayern München were also apparently meddlesome in a 20-year-old.
• Won a Bundesliga and reached a 2002 UEFA Cup final in his initial full deteriorate with a bar (losing a latter diversion 3-2 to Feyenoord in Rotterdam). Was a losing German League Cup finalist a following season.
• Was Czech actor of a year for 2001 and 2002.
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Rosický with a FA Cup in 2014
Arsenal
• Was courted by Atlético Madrid before relocating to Arsenal in summer 2006. Was named Czech Player of a Year for a third and final time in 2006.
• Never won a joining pretension with a Gunners, though reached dual League Cup finals (in 2007 and 2011) and won a FA Cup in 2014. Arsenal won a FA Cup again in 2015, though Rosický was taken for a final.
• Made his 83rd and final entrance in a UEFA Champions League (including qualifying) opposite Monaco in Feb 2015. Petr ÄŒech (111) is a usually Czech who has done some-more appearances in Europe’s tip bar competition.
• Injuries ensured that he usually done some-more than 20 Premier League appearances in one of his 10 seasons during Arsenal (his first), and did not make a singular entrance in 2008/09 and 2015/16. He nonetheless became a fan favourite during a club.
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Tomáš Rosický during UEFA EURO 2016
Czech Republic
• Is a youngest (19 during UEFA EURO 2000) and oldest (35 during UEFA EURO 2016) actor to have represented a Czech Republic during a UEFA European Championship.
• Played during 4 EUROs in sum as good as a 2006 FIFA World Cup. Took over from Pavel Nedvěd as national-team captain in 2006.
• A 2-2 pull opposite Croatia during UEFA EURO 2006 was his final general game. He is a third many capped Czech Republic actor after ÄŒech (124) and Karel Poborský (118). “I am blissful we managed to play over 100 games for my country,” he pronounced today. “I always favourite entrance home to play. It is tough to find one impulse we favourite most, though there is one regret: we consider we should have won UEFA EURO 2004 in Portugal.”
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Rosický in training with a Gunners
What we competence not know
• His father and brother, both named Jiřà Rosický, were also on a books during Sparta. His mom Eva was a tip list tennis player.
• He was nicknamed ‘The Little Mozart’ during his time during Dortmund for his ability to harmonise play.
• During his prolonged durations on a sidelines, Rosický polished his skills as a guitar player, and assimilated renouned Czech stone rope Tři sestry (Three Sisters) on theatre to denote his skills in 2010.
Rosický vocalization to UEFA.com in 2014
What he says
“My career was all beautiful, notwithstanding of all my damage problems. we gifted some of a fanciful moments that football creates, and also some vicious ones. we never played for income and fame. we have always been a child who desired a game. It brought me achievement a lot of joy.”
 “What recommendation would we give to immature players? It is value it. It might demeanour elementary though it is not for everyone. You have to scapegoat a lot and put in a lot of effort, and not everybody is peaceful to do that, though we should go for it. Football is a pleasing diversion that will open a lot of doors; we will accommodate a lot of illusory people, we will see whole a world. It is really value it. Go for it.”
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Rosický confirming his retirement today
“Sparta were my team. They still are my group in a Czech Republic. It was a many critical step in my career. When we was 17, they gave me a initial event to play in a league, when we was 18 we played in a Champions League and when we was 19 we was in a inhabitant team.”
“That [Borussia Dortmund] had to compensate so most for me is not my problem. As for a pressure, there is always vigour in a Bundesliga. we try to cope with it. Of course, I’m vehement when we come on to a pitch. That tragedy is always there, and a fans in a Westfalenstadion are unique.”
“I always wanted to come [to Arsenal] since we always favourite a form of football that Arsenal and Arsène Wenger wanted to play. When we was in Dortmund we was looking during it that we would like to play for Arsenal since of a truth of a club.”
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