Fucking LOVED him when he played for Chelsea, what a keeper
doesn’t matter where, doesn’t matter for who, the man just loves stopping shots
Gigachad
Gigacech
The actual helmet he wore for those wondering.
Chelsea and Arsenal badge on each side.
Proper tinpot that
Look like Dark Helmet.
Probably shouts “Keep firing, Assholes” during shooting practice.
Cech always wanted to play ice hockey, but his parents couldn’t afford the kit costs.
Goalkeeper kit in ice hockey will set you back a tidy sum if you want to personally own it, and you obviously have to buy larger sizes as you grow
I remember seeing an interview with Zdeno Chara and Marian Hossa (Slovak hockey stars) where they described growing up during the pre-post communist schism/independence. Basically during communism when they were children, despite the relative lack of wealth the government still subsidized sport for political reasons. So even though they grew up poor they (and their peers) always had access to ice time, gear paid for, coaching, you name it. Then in the mid-90s when Slovakia and Czech Republic split both countries were super poor for a while (like Poland at the time) so an entire generation of young players that came after them didn’t have shit or could afford it anymore.
In the late 1990s-mid 2000s Slovakia was a legitimate top 6 country in the world in hockey. Then they dipped to like, 10th where countries like Germany were starting to pass them. It’s now reversed a bit and Slovakia has a really good young generation, but the ~1985-2000 generation were basically the “lost” generation there.
So after babbling for a bit, I’m guessing Petr Cech may have went through something similar in the 1990s when he was growing up in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic.
Oh yea, that makes sense. I remember they used to have great players like Peter Boundra, Zigmund Palffy, Satan…and then followed by Chara, Hossa, and Gaborik.
This is a canon event. This is a mythical version of Peter Cech.
oooooooh fun, I watch the Giants play whenever they play in my area, I’ll be able to point to the keeper/on the bench and go oh btw that’s Cech there
Nice
Goddamn legend.
I thought he already joined years ago
I saw him play last year against Streatham, I am not sure it’s translated that well to Ice Hockey I think he let in about 8 goals!
When they make fun of our MLS team names here. 😂
Your NFL team names are even worse lol
NFL team names are so bad. Hard for me to take that sport seriously if you got team names like Boston Hookers vs the Cum Guzzlers.
Cum Guzzlers
We call them Hotspurs around here
Northern Ireland actually has mythology based on giants (see Giant’s causeway) so it actually makes sense.
Oh fuck I live in Oxford and meant to go see a Stars game with Cech playing. Hope I haven’t missed the chance.
sheffield is a bit far, but coventry are in the same league, I live in northamptonshire and go there to watch the giants play. MK may get promoted potentially but dropped out of the league, but I went there too, so I’d like them to get promoted again just so I can watch giants play in more than one place
There isn’t promotion and relegation in the EIHL. It’s a franchise league.
What a legend for doing this. How good is ice hockey.
Man, I so want hockey to have more global love.
It kinda requires ice
