EURO U-19 | SERBIA IN SLOVAKIA, JOVIĆ’S YOUTH, AMONG THE EIGHT BEST TEAMS IN EUROPE, LOOKING FOR A PATH TO THE WORLD CUP IN INDONESIA

Serbia national U-19 team achieved a great success by qualifying for the European U-19 Championship in Slovakia (18th June – 1st July), where they will do their utmost competing with Israel, England and Austria, trying to win a place in the semifinals and direct qualification to the FIFA U-20 World Cup, to be staged in Indonesia in May 2023. The team selected by the head-coach Aleksandar Jović will play the first match on 19th June (17:30) with Israel, then with England three days later, and the match with Austria is to be played on 25th June.

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Players for Serbia will be: goalkeepers: Ognjen Lukić (Radnički, Kragujevac), Marko Ćopić (Crvena zvezda), Matija Gočmanac (Teleoptik), defenders: Stefan Leković (Grafičar), Mihajlo Ilić (Partizan), Andrej Đurić (Crvena zvezda), Bojan Kovačević (Čukarički), Uroš Lazić (Grafičar), Nemanja Krsmanović (TSC), midfielders: Vladimir Miletić (Vojvodina), Nikola Petković (Čukarički), Nikola Stanković (Crvena zvezda), Nikola Knežević (Grafičar), Đorđe Gordić (Mladost, Lučani), Igor Miladonović (Čukarički), Dario Grgić (Čukarički), attackers: Nemanja Motika (Crvena zvezda), Ognjen Ajdar (Čukarički), Marko Lazetić (Milan, Italy), Petar Ratkov (TSC), Nikola Jojić (Mladost, Lučani).

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Official delegation and technical staff members, besides head-coach Aleksandar Jović: director of youth teams Nikola Lazetić, youth teams coordinator Igor Matić, coaches Mihajlo Trajković, Gordan Petrić, Viborg Koceić (goalkeepers’ coach), Stefan Filipović (analysis), Marko Kuridža (fitness coach), team doctor Miloš Zlatković, physios Vladimir Antonović and Darko NIkolić, team secretary Pavle Simić, kit-man Nikola Vučinić and media team Mirko Vrbica and Đorđe Filipović.