For Guildford Phoenix is the realisation of a childhood fantasy former Arsenal and Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech says his hockey debut.
Cech made a functionality as his match-winning penalty shootout rescue assisted his into a 3-2 success against Swindon Wildcats two.
The 37-year-old signed in the end of last year , last week after his retirement from football for Phoenix, who play 2.
It is sort of a childhood fantasy to come and play with one game, which has [now] happened, said Cech, whose penalty save as netminder preserved Phoenixs ideal start in the next match of the season.
Nobody could ever take this away from me, that is actually wonderful.
Cech hopes his surprise change of sport, where he will compete together with working as performance and technical advisor at Chelsea, may behave as motivation to think in accomplishing their objectives.
If you have a dream and you chase it and you do whatever to allow it to happen… I have done that in soccer and all of my dreams come true, he added.
I said,that may be the previous dream I was hoping to [tick off]. However, I worked hard for it.
I think it can behave as a tool for the young players to understand that in the event you pursue your dreams, then good things might happen.
Cech, that wore a custom made helmet that carried the colours of Chelsea and clubs Arsenal, admitted hed desired to become an ice hockey player as a young child, but his family were not able to afford the cost of the gear.
He disclosed Chelsea team-mates John Terry along with Didier Drogba had sent him good luck messages from the lead-up for his look.
The Czechs introduction was watched by to get a fixture that would get between 50 and 70 spectators more than 900 people at the Guildford Spectrum.

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