Liverpool goalkeeper Vitezslav Jaros has joined Stockport County on loan for the 2022/23 campaign.
Jaros spent last season on loan in Ireland with St Patrick’s Athletic before spending some time at Notts County, and now will have his first taste of Football League action with the newly-promoted side.
He is not the only talented young Liverpool player out on loan at the moment, with Adam Lewis and Billy Koumetio away for the 2022/23 season as well.
The Czech youth international joined Liverpool in 2017 from Sparta Prague.
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He began his time at the Academy with the U18s under the tutelage of Steven Gerrard and, in his second season, helped the Reds win the FA Youth Cup as part of the squad that defeated Manchester City on penalties in the final.
The stopper then stepped up to U23 level and appeared for the first team in a pre-season friendly against Tranmere Rovers in July 2019.
He then earned his first loan move to St Pat’s, in which he impressed so often that he won the clubs’ Player of the Year and helped them lift the FAI Cup.
"We were one of several options [Jaros] had, so to have him choose us is a big positive," Stockport boss Dave Challinor said.
"He's a goalkeeper with a big future ahead of him and is very highly regarded at Liverpool and comes with real positive references.”
The side returned to the football league after over a decade away, with Challinor’s side blitzing the National League last campaign.
They spent 106 years in the EFL, being relegated for the first time in 2011 and even falling to the sixth tier of English football in recent years.
Local businessman Mark Stott bought the club in January 2020.
He freed it of debt and returned them to the football league, with a new training ground also to boot.
Jaros is likely to gain key experience with the minnows and is one of many a Liverpool keeper to drop down the football pyramid - with Marcelo Pitaluga joining Macclesfield FC, and Jakub Ojrzyński having a recent loan spell at Caernarfon Town.
Topics: Liverpool, Czech Republic, League Two
Chris Stonadge