Tomáš Rosický

Rosický always struck me as a footballer's footballer, the kind of playmaker whose value never fully shows up in a stat line. Watching him at Dortmund and Arsenal, I admired how he bent the tempo of a match with a single touch, even as injuries kept stealing his best years. What I respect most is the refusal to fade out: captaining the Czech Republic for a decade, then returning to Sparta Prague as sports director. That move feels right to me, a thinker of the game now shaping it from above. Few players close their careers with such quiet, fitting grace.

Name (English)

Tomáš Rosický

Name (Japanese)

トマーシュ・ロシツキー

Reading

とまーしゅ・ろしつきー

Born

October 4, 1980 (age 45)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Monkey

Origin

Prague, Czech Republic

Height

180 cm

Occupation

association football player / sports executive

• Official sitehttps://tomas-rosicky.eu/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1%20Rosick%C3%BD
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B7%E3%83%84%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29162

Tags

• association football player
• sports executive

Last updated

2026-06-21

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