THE NATIONAL TEAM GATHERED | PRESS CONFERENCE - HEAD COACH DRAGAN STOJKOVIĆ BEFORE THE MATCHES AGAINST BULGARIA AND JORDAN

The Serbian national team gathered in Stara Pazova and began preparations for the upcoming two matches, the International Friendly in Vienna against Jordan, and a qualifying match in Razgrad against Bulgaria.

The Head Coach of our National Team, Dragan Stojkovic answered at the official press conference at the Sports Center of the FA of Serbia, to questions from journalists and immediately at the beginning sent words of congratulations to Novak Đoković, officially, from yesterday the greatest Tennis Player of all time:

“Nole has once again written the history of tennis.” Everything he does makes us proud, as of yesterday he is officially the best tennis player of all time. It was beautiful to watch him in the final of Roland Garros, to cheer for him and to look forward to his 23rd Grand Slam Title in his career. He deserved all that with his work, quality, technical skills, tactics, and psychological preparation.

People like him and Jokić move the boundaries in sports. Nothing is by accident. Nikola works miracles in America in the strongest league in the World. The ease with which he solves matches is magnificent. I congratulate both from the bottom of my heart and may they continue to break records,” said Stojković, and then he turned to the challenges that await his team in the June match dates:

“The focus is on the match against Bulgaria, which is extremely important on the way to the final tournament of the European Championship.” You know we have a lot of injury problems. A large number of players could not be on our list for legitimate reasons. Mitrović has been struggling with foot pain for six months, which prevented him from being at his level at the World Cup. We talked and he will probably have to undergo surgery. Jovic was injured in the last seconds of the first half of the match against West Ham, he suffered a broken nose and a surgery was today. We can’t even count on Vlahović, with whom I also had talks these days and hoped that he could recover for Bulgaria.

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Unfortunately, Dušan suffers from constant pain in his groin, it is better to skip this term and finally recover from the injury. We have Joveljić and Đorđe Jovanović at our disposal, so we are covered at the forward position. Every player who wears the shirt of Serbia is obliged to give his maximum, to put himself at the service of the team and to contribute to the achievement of the desired result,” said Stojković.