Maybe he tried sage to exorcise evil spirits. But Spartan goalkeeper Jakub Kovář (35) was not helped even by a living talisman from Russia, the mother of his two-month-old daughter, Valerija Safonovová (32).
Kovář’s Russian partner, Valerija, was suffering right in the audience, where she was cheering on the Prague team together with her friend. In vain. For the second time, her lover is hurt by the turn of the opponent from a 3-0 lead to the matches. He already experienced a similar situation two years ago.
“This year’s Swiss league final will eat at me for the rest of my life,” the goalkeeper remembered the year 2022, when the Zurich trophy was taken by his brother Jan’s (34) Zug. And now he has to regret losing the second of the three longest matches in the extra league. Love is a powerful sorceress, but she doesn’t know how to deal with the underdog Kovař…