Because he was too tall, the talented striker played as a goalkeeper for 12 years, drawing positions to achieve a legendary career
If you like football, you should have more or less a few players who are particularly liked. Or to admire their skills, or to admire their experience, in short, when their favorite players gallop on the field, the fans should be very happy in their hearts. When it comes to players that everyone likes, they will generally say legendary players such as C Ronaldo Messi or Big Luo Xiaoluo.
And this time to talk about the player is also quite famous, this is the legendary striker of the table - Jan Kohler. Perhaps compared to those top stars, Jan Kohler may be slightly less famous. But his height of 2 meters 02 and a weight of more than 100 kilograms must be impressive. He is probably the best player in Czech history and as a former footballer, his superb header skills are always impressive.
As a good player, Jan Kohler himself was born into a player family, and his father was a football coach, which also gave him the opportunity to spend time with football from an early age. Since the age of 7, he has been practicing under the guidance of his father and has developed a very solid foundation in football. Interestingly, due to his tall stature, even his father was unable to see his future accurately and let him play as a goalkeeper in his own team. At the beginning everyone around him was expecting him to be a good goalkeeper in the future.
But for Jan Kohler, the experience was a bit painful, as he wasn't the best player to play as a goalkeeper, but because of a lot of goalkeeper training, he delayed other aspects of growth. Although his own height is indeed very suitable for being a goalkeeper, his goalkeeper talent is really not high. He has been playing in the position of goalkeeper for 12 years, which can be said to be a waste or a waste of time, if he had played as a striker or other position at the beginning, I believe he would have achieved more dazzling achievements than he is now.
Jan Kohler's career as a goalkeeper has been tepid, and although he has basically not made any major mistakes, he has not been able to play results, and there are few amazing highlights. And his own talent in the front line, in this position of goalkeeper and there is no chance to show it, if it is not a strong football dream all the time, maybe he is likely to give up.
Finally, 12 years later, the opportunity came to play when he was 19 years old. In an occasional match, the team's striker was accidentally injured before playing, and there was no suitable substitute in the team. So Jan Kohler, who was supposed to play as goalkeeper. At this moment, everyone thought that this game was going to be suffered, but they did not expect that Jan Kohler, who was grinding his gun, actually played quite beautifully. His father was also very embarrassed, and let his son play as a goalkeeper for 12 years before he found that his son was a talented striker. Since then, his forward position has also been fixed, and he soon played in his hometown team Lotta, leading the team to win the second division.
Maybe Jan Kohler will complain a little about why God should give himself such a tall man, the big man let him play for more than ten years, and even after the goalkeeper became a striker, because of the height problem, he did not have many opportunities to play in the team. But his difference really made the coach aware.
In general, players as tall as he play as a striker tend to prefer to score goals with a header, but Jan Koehler is different, and his contribution to the team is almost all-round. He is always able to have an advantage in the scramble, and both offensive and defensive are of great help to the team. His headers can be attacked and passed to opponents, posing a huge threat. At the same time, he himself is also very good at shooting vigorously, and the dribbling is not bad at all. Jan Koehler's biggest strength is that he has almost no weaknesses, and it is precisely because of this that even after the age of 30, his performance on the pitch is still remarkable, and he is a well-deserved veteran.
12 years of experience as a goalkeeper, whether it has brought good or bad to Jan Kohler. The position of goalkeeper for many years has allowed him to exercise a strong overall view, allowing him to take into account the team's defense in addition to attacking, which many players cannot do. In 2004 he led the Czech national team to the quarter-finals of the European Championships, adding a glorious stroke to his career.