The former head coach of the Serbian national basketball team, Svetislav Pe\u0161i\u0107, spoke in an interview with Nedeljnik about the events at the European Championship in Riga. Serbia finished the competition with a loss to Finland in the EuroBasket Round of 16, and Pe\u0161i\u0107 also talked about “non-basketball issues.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Specifically, he was asked if he called the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107, regarding the fans who were sent to Riga by the authorities. This information was publicly announced by the trophy-winning Partizan coach Du\u0161ko Vujo\u0161evi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2013 What Du\u0161ko Vujo\u0161evi\u0107 said on television is completely untrue. They sent me from the federation to see what appeared in the media. A month has already passed since the European Championship, but again the European Championship is a topic. And he says he is a little surprised by the result \u2013 which is okay, everyone is surprised, he has the right to be too \u2013 but he didn’t criticize baselessly from the basketball side like some others. However, he said there were some other things, that he received information second-hand that I called Vu\u010di\u0107 \u2013 Pe\u0161i\u0107 said and added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2013 OK, Dule is not to blame, he probably heard it somewhere, but no one thought to ask me first-hand if I called Vu\u010di\u0107. And whether the players wanted to leave, whether there was any insulting, whether there was an attack on Guduri\u0107’s brother and similar things. That was not a topic for me at all, of course I didn’t call Vu\u010di\u0107\u2026 So, you have no contact?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2013 We have contact during receptions and official events. I remember the last accidental encounter in a restaurant, that was when our biggest clubs did not want to give players for the national team, meaning the qualifications were still being played. I remember, because we talked about it. So, that is my contact with the President of the country, unless it is something official. So, I did not call him, nor did he call me. And were there problems with those fans?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2013 No one caused us any problems. I perceived them, those who allegedly came on some special plane \u2013 maybe they did come, I really don’t know that \u2013 as some of those fans who visited us at the hotel. We did not feel anything in the sense that someone insulted us. Or I was completely focused on what was happening on the court \u2013 Pe\u0161i\u0107 concluded for Nedeljnik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Problems with the Virus Pe\u0161i\u0107 also explained what kind of problems our team encountered during the competition in Riga. Everything started great, and then the downfall of our team began with Bogdanovi\u0107’s injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n