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Eagles new boy is glad to be
back
by Brian Owen
EASTBOURNE new boy Matej Zagar today revealed how he fell back in love with British speedway.
The Slovenian national team captain star formally signed for 2010 during a flying visit to Sussex.
He hopes to complete his first full season in the Elite League since helping Reading Bulldogs to
within one race of the title back in 2006.
Zagar parted company with Reading in the final weeks of 2007 after a dispute with the club.
He did not race in this country in 2008 and only returned at the end of May last year as a
temporary stand-in for injured Troy Batchelor at Swindon.
Such was his form, Swindon kept him on for the rest of the year and he again suffered frustration
at the last hurdle after helping his side to the play-off final.
Now Zagar is on board as No. 1 for Eastbourne and said: “It’s a new adventure which probably
I’m going to enjoy.
Everybody knows I had a bad experience with Reading and it didn’t end up like everyone wanted.
I finished in the middle of 2007 for financial issues. Until those got sorted I didn’t want to ride
here.
That’s why I didn’t plan to get back in England. I had bad memories.
But, you know, everything got sorted last year.
I didn’t plan to come to England at all last year. It was a good thing I made that last-minute
decision to send one bike from Slovenia and actually get signed with Swindon.
It ended up as a contract through the whole season.
I had a really good year. I enjoyed it and that showed up on the track.
If everything goes okay and people treat you like they say and they don’t change their minds and
do silly things, they get things back in return.”
Zagar admits he is more used to riding big tracks than tight and tricky Arlington but that holds
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Matej Zagar, Simon Gustafsson, Joonas Kylmakorpi, Lukas Dryml, Cameron Woodward and Rikky Kling.
It is expected that remaining rider for 2010 will be the elusive Russian Denis Gizatullin.
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