'I won the Champions League but playing ice hockey is more fun with different pressure'

dailystar.co.uk:

Champions League winner Petr Cech has remarkably admitted that ice hockey is "more fun" than turning out for a European match under the lights.The ex-Chelsea and Arsenal keeper, 40, is one of the greatest shot-stoppers of the Premier League era, banking every trophy there is to win in English football before hanging up his boots in 2019.

But seemingly not satisfied with the abundance of silverware already on his mantlepiece, Cech immediately turned to a second sporting passion.He signed as a goaltender for National Ice Hockey League Division 2 outfit Guildford Phoenix in October 2019, just four and a half months after retiring from football, and was named man of the match on debut having saved two penalties in a shoot-out victory.READ MORE: Sir Alex Ferguson fumed at 'stupidest question ever heard' after Barcelona beat Man Utd"It's a completely different level of pressure.

This [ice hockey] is more fun than when you play a Champions League game," he told the Daily Mail. "I still have that feeling in myself because I want to perform.

I want to win. I hate losing. It's the same feeling I had when I played football."You still get that feeling when you're walking through the corridor, to the ice, surrounded by all these people.