Source: Liverpool_Echo
ROYAL BLUE: Everton FC’s new keeper Jan Mucha ready to rise to the challenge
IN Slovakian, Mucha means 'fly' - as in the insect. And Slovakia's number one goalkeeper intends to live up to the description when he signs for Everton from Legia Warsaw this summer.Jan Mucha is already making plans for his arrival on Merseyside, once Slovakia's World Cup commitments have ended.The 27-year-old has already targeted an area of Liverpool where he wants to live, is taking English lessons - and has even started collecting Beatles CDs!Mucha has taken advice from his international team-mate Martin Skrtel and is eagerly anticipating his switch to the Premier League.'I already have a good friend in Škrtel. We know each other from the national team and Martin showed me the city,' he explained. 'Thanks to him, I know where I want to live. He has a house near Fernando Torres and other Liverpool and Everton players, so my future neighbourhood is really interesting.'I have a private teacher in a language school in Warsaw, and I have even started collecting Beatles CDs.'Adding to the translation of his name even further, Mucha is also working towards his pilot's licence - 'I am in the middle of my course,' he confirmed.Mucha, the Legia Warszaw keeper, will join Everton on a three-year contract at the end of the season before heading to Rustenburg, Mangaung/Bloemfontein and Johannesburg for his country's World Cup debut. Whenever that journey ends - and with unpredictable Paraguay, minnows New Zealand and fading holders Italy in Slovakia's group he is hopeful of progress from the group stages - the final stop on Mucha's close-season itinerary will be Finch Farm.'I had many other offers but when I heard 'Everton', I felt 'this is it',' he added. 'I could have gone to Turkey - there were two big bids. If I'd gone, I would have been a millionaire because the money they offered was staggering. But I would never have forgiven myself if I had not tried England; if I'd rejected an offer from the Premier League.