Ščasný: I was surprised that he didn’t catch Nita in Sparta. Why did he take Pardubice?
It rarely happens that a substitute among football goalkeepers, or a straight-up written-off teammate, attracts such attention by moving to another club. Nevertheless, Florin Nito managed to leave Sparta. At Letná, he did not catch a competitive match for more than a year and found himself “illegal”. Only now, five months before the expiry of the lucrative contract, he suddenly appeared in Pardubice and already made his debut for the last team in the league table in Liberec (1:1). “He is an excellent goalkeeper and a good boy,” says former Spartan coach and sports director Zdeněk Ščasný, who is Nita himself, in a special video interview. “I was surprised he didn’t catch at all the last year.”
Nita arrived in Sparta in January 218 and became immediately0. Afterwards, he sometimes lost his position, but returned between the three posts – before coach Pavel Vrba finally sent him away. The last league match the Romanian representative caught was at the end of November 2021, he was in the 0:4 debacle in Slovakia. “I tried to talk to him, but unfortunately it didn’t work,” Nita said to Vrbo’s address. “Maybe he didn’t like my face…” he dug. Be that as it may, he’s been in trouble ever since.
It may seem strange that Nita has remained in Sparta until now, if we ignore financial reasons, and suddenly left for the last six months of the contract in the last Pardubice. However, Ščasný offers a logical explanation – in addition to the connection to the local coach Radoslav Kováč, who knows the Romanian from the time when he worked in Sparta on the staff of coach Andrea Stramaccioni. Everything has to do with Nita’s future and pragmatic calculation.
A player with an estimated basic salary of 800,000 crowns appeared in the east of Bohemia, which would probably fit the entire rest of the squad. However, Sparta is to share 90 percent of the salary. The question is how the current goalkeepers Jakub Markovič and Viktor Budinský, on whom the burden of responsibility for staying in the league, rested. “It’s difficult for our goalkeepers, I admit. But we can’t play for salvation. The fight for survival will be psycho,” emphasized Kováč after the draw in Liberec, where Nita only conceded once. “He will help Pardubice and their young defense. And Kovy will explain it to them once or twice,” says Ščasný.