Interview with Vidi's keeper

Just like last January, we are training in Umag, Croatia, but this is your first training camp with Vidi. How familiar was this area for you, have you been here before?

I was here in 2010 with the U17 national team, then coached by Ferenc Bene. We played a pre-season game against the Croats - on the same pitch where we are training now and stayed in the same hotel as now. We lost 2-1 in that game, but since then I have not been to Croatia at all - during my years playing in Greek, we usually spent our summer holidays visiting relatives in Hungary rather than on the beach. It wasn't today, that's for sure, and it was mentioned that my goalkeeping partner Dala Martin was six years old at the time.

You've been through your first two training sessions at the Umag training ground, what are your impressions?

It's a special thing about training camps that you get more workload, and this is no different. Nobody knows any jokes when it comes to training, but we don't need the coaching staff to tell us that, we expect hard work from ourselves. The atmosphere between training sessions is a bit more informal, the atmosphere in the changing rooms is very good, which is also felt here in the training camp from the very first moment.

A few days ago you worked with the current goalkeeping trio, Dala Martin, the new signing Botond Kemenes and yourself. How well have you got to know each other?

Actually, after two days we had the feeling that we had been working together for a long time, but I wasn't surprised because I had the same feeling when I came to Vidi. Boti also sees how we work, we have a very good work ethic, we can work together effectively, but off the pitch it's like a group of friends, which makes it easy for anyone to fit in.

How is the work in the training camp different for the goalkeepers compared to the training sessions in Salto?

Because we spend the whole day together and have planned almost to the minute what we are going to do, our goalkeeper coach Ferenc Hegedüs can plan the workload even more complexly. In addition to this, it is also important to ensure that everyone gets a good rest between training sessions. We want to be at the level of speed and efficiency we expect when we get home and to be able to perform at least as well in goal as we did in the autumn season.

The team will have training matches on Friday, Saturday and Tuesday. How are you preparing for them?

The thing about friendly matches is that we concentrate much more on ourselves than in a season. In the league, we also adapt more to the opponent, whereas this is not the case here, the aim is to make our own tactics as effective as possible. With 20 summer and winter training sessions behind me, my experience is that you can't draw many conclusions from the results of training matches in the league. What's also different is that the load is higher in the summer, which makes the hands and feet more tired, which means you have to concentrate more mentally - in a match, automaticity comes more than in the summer.

The league season resumes in half a month. How much are you looking forward to the matches?

We're happy that after a couple of weeks of training the league is back, the preparation period is not the players' favourite. That said, we have to put in the necessary work now to get ourselves in the right shape for the start. Fortunately, we have three training matches in a week's time, so we can best prepare for the spring season.