I like the silence underwater. There's a man floating like he's flying. It's quiet
Juraj Matejka
Nickname: Juro
Job: florbalu coach
Place: Zamarovce
Date of Award: 3. 7. 2026
I like the silence underwater. There's a man floating like he's flying. It's quiet
Juraj played hockey first and then moved on to Floral. He played him until last year, but he quit because of the injury. The smallest children train this sport, the year 2017 and younger. This year they together received a Slovak master’s degree. The most important thing, according to the coach, is to make sure that the kids have fun, so that they enjoy chasing them with the Floral sticks behind the ball. The joy of the game is a recipe for a lifelong positive relationship to sport. After all, Floral is an amateur sport and there is no vision of astronomical earnings.
The coach says that the joy of young children motivates him more than the performance of the older ones, which is being crushed by puberty. It’s more difficult to teach them what’s on the right, which on the left and a lot of exercises must be easier to deal with, but the energy that comes back from them is charging you.
He considers it gratifying to stay in the club when grown children, Juniors, stay in the club due to team relationships even after studying in colleges outside Trenčín.
Juraj has an extremely interesting hobby – diving. Most often he treats him in Egypt, but he tried the Maldives. Under water, he admires small fish and sharks. They say if you know how to treat them, they’re not dangerous. He experienced diving in Senec or Green Water in Slovakia.
