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    LONDON, England -- Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech hopes to resume full training in mid-January as he continues to recover from surgery on his fractured skull. "I feel better, improving every day. I can start training a little bit in the gym and the swimming pool so it makes me feel a lot better," Cech said on Tuesday in an interview with Chelsea TV published by the club's Web site. "It has been a great week the last week because I could start working, I could even start to play tennis... I hope this way I can make it back earlier than expected. "It is looking like that, about the middle of January I will be able to start training in the goal." The 24-year-old Czech international had two metal plates inserted into his head following a challenge from Reading's Stephen Hunt on October 14. Cech told the Web site: "Of course I am tired when I do the training session because my body is still a little bit tired. "But it has improved massively because I can work twice a day and at the end of the day, I am tired but I am tired because of the work, not just because of the walking." He added: "The brain is working very well and I haven't lost anything I had so for the moment it is looking very well. "There is still time to go with the skull fracture because it has not healed and I have to be patient with that, but hopefully that will go quickly as well." |
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Cech hopes to return to training in mid-January after his awful injury at Reading.
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