Karol Mets, who was chosen as the best men’s footballer in Estonia for the first time this year, said he had a near-ideal club year in Germany and the best club year of his playing career, but things didn’t went as expected in the Estonian national team.
The 30-year-old Mets was chosen as Estonia’s best men’s footballer with great success. 76 people participated in the selection of the best player, of which 68 placed Metsa in first place in the voting. He exchanged last year’s runner-up for first place. What does this title mean for Metsa?
“It definitely means a lot to me! If you think only one will get it and this time I got picked, it’s a great recognition and a great honor,” said Mets, who attended the Football Gala held at Estonia Concert Hall live.
“In hindsight, the national team’s year as a whole could have been a little better because I expect the selectors to make their selection based on what they saw in the national team. I don’t know how many people watch my games in St. Paul. It’s a shame that the national team’s year wasn’t good enough. But in the big picture, I’m very happy and I’m very honored! It’s a privilege!” added the central defender.
Although Mets was the favorite for the Estonian player of the year award this year, according to the player himself, he didn’t think about it. “I’m not the kind of person who thinks about things like that. Awards and things like that. I don’t think about them, but when they come to me, I’m really grateful and happy.”
In the ten-ball system the score is nine
Mets initially joined Paul on loan from Zurich at the start of the year, but the German Premier League club acquired the Estonian’s player rights in the summer. S. Paul’s coach Fabian Hürzeler trusts Metsa completely. This is evidenced by the fact that the Mets have played 31 games in the German Premier League this calendar year from start to finish. He was only sidelined due to disqualification.
“I think it was a successful year in the big picture. Things went the way I wanted. I’m in the right role at the right time, I was chosen in the right place. I feel like I fit that role perfectly with my style of play. This is very important. Through this there is the opportunity to be yourself and, accordingly, good or bad depending on how you are at the moment. Adapting to the role is the key,” noted Mets with satisfaction.
It therefore seems that the central defender has found a club in his best period, where everything works, but things could have gone differently. “The saying that when one door closes another opens is absolutely true. The funny thing is that I actually didn’t want to leave Zurich. When I spoke to the coach and it became clear that for him I was number two, I I inevitably thought I had to close that door myself and start looking for something new. My goal was not to leave Zurich”, Mets described the situation a year ago.
He scored a nine in the ten-ball system for his club year. “The dream year would be if everything went perfectly. Somewhere, some things remain dilapidated and we have to work on them. Of course you can’t give ten, but if you look at the club and the whole, how we played, nine out of ten.”
S. Pauli is currently top of the German Premier League, being the only unbeaten team. “If you look at the big picture there is no reason to complain, but if you look at the last draws my heart hurts, let’s be honest. Yesterday we let ourselves be scored at the end and I have to shake my head. I have a bad feeling inside, but overall everything is fine,” Mets said self-critically.
Although in the December games St. Paul lost the lead twice, but according to Metsa the energy did not disappear from the team. “I feel like we have a lot of freshness and there’s a lot of emotion, but the last two games feel more like defeat. It’s not a good feeling. I don’t know if the winter break is coming for better or for worse.” time, but I think the energy in the team is good right now.”
In addition to a successful league season, St. Pauli reached the quarterfinals of the German Cup, where they were quite lucky with the draw, because they avoided the Major League clubs and will meet Fortuna Dusseldorf, who play in the first league. In the cup season so far, St. Paul has defeated Delmenhorst (amateur league), Schalke (first league) and Homburg (third strongest league).
How much do players talk to each other about success in cup series? It turns out that it isn’t at all. “We have not discussed winning the cup. We will take one opponent at a time and focus only on that. We are talking from the second round to take Bayern away,” laughed Mets, whose dream will not be realized. comes true because Bayern was eliminated from the cup series. “I would like someone very big. The expectations are high and we will see what comes, but let’s not think too much about the future.”
Collective collapse
While things are going well at their home club, the team’s year has been disappointing for Metsa, especially the fall games. “For some reason, we thought we were better than we actually are. Sweden brought us back down to earth. And it’s not easy going to Belgium after a very painful 0-5 home defeat both emotionally and physically The match against Sweden was a collective collapse. Things like that happen in sport. We all did something wrong together at that moment. Maybe we thought a little better of ourselves, maybe we were too brave and naive, all in the end it was 0-5,” Mets recalled the depressing September.
Even though they didn’t win in October, according to Metsa the team took a step forward. “When you get 0-10 on the pitch, you have to get out of it slowly. It definitely leaves its mark on the players, on the chemistry of the team and everything, but I see a step forward in that sense. It wasn’t “It was a huge step, but it was in the right direction. If we can talk about something positive, I’m glad that we didn’t go deeper into the hole, but tried to get out of it. It has to happen “step by step.”
2023-12-10 20:56:22
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