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Tue 07 January 2025, 12:00|Tottenham Hotspur
Antonin Kinsky has revealed that former Spurs goalkeeper and his goalkeeping coach at Slavia Prague Radek Cerny encouraged him to make the move to north London.
An arrival from Slavia Prague on Sunday, our new number 31 was coached by our former man Radek Cerny during his four years with the Czech side and Antonin – known as Toni – has told us Radek said ‘go for it’ when he spoke to him about the offer from the Club.
Former goalkeeper Cerny spent three years with us, joining us initially on an 18-month loan in January 2005 from Slavia, but that was soon extended until 2008. In that time he made 28 appearances for us as he battled with Paul Robinson for the number one spot and was part of our side that lifted the League Cup in 2008.
He then became QPR, spending years at Loftus Road before returning to Slavia, where he is now goalkeeping coach and is the person who has overseen Toni for the last four years in the Czech capital.
“I didn’t have a lot of time to communicate about the (Spurs) change with others because we had a break in the Czech championship, so the manager was probably on holiday at the time and I didn’t need to interrupt him, but today I spoke. to him,” Antonin said, explaining the background to his verbal exchange with Radek.
“He told me things about the spurs. He also told me to stop by.
“He’s a great guy. He was my goalkeeper coach in Slavia for four years when I wasn’t on loan. A great guy. A great coach and his opinion (on the move) was also an important thing for me.”