{"id":199382,"date":"2026-01-26T15:45:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=199382"},"modified":"2026-01-26T15:45:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:45:03","slug":"vucic-organized-a-reception-for-the-water-polo-players-serbias-best-player-dusan-mandic-did-not-appear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/vucic-organized-a-reception-for-the-water-polo-players-serbias-best-player-dusan-mandic-did-not-appear\/","title":{"rendered":"VU\u010cI\u0106 ORGANIZED A RECEPTION FOR THE WATER POLO PLAYERS: Serbia’s best player Du\u0161an Mandi\u0107 did not appear!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The best water polo player in Serbia, Du\u0161an Mandi\u0107, did not appear at the reception with the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reasons for Mandi\u0107’s failure to attend the reception are not known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Vu\u010di\u0107 received the players and coaching staff of the new champion of Europe, as well as the leaders of the Water Polo Association of Serbia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the players, Milo\u0161 \u0106uk was also not present, as he had to miss the final against Hungary due to a high temperature and a virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mandi\u0107 has won eight gold medals with the Serbian national team, including three Olympic, four European, and one world gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is known that at the reception after the Olympic Games in Paris, he did not want to shake hands with the Mayor of Belgrade, Aleksandar \u0160api\u0107, due to the poor treatment he received while playing at VK Novi Beograd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mandi\u0107 openly supported the student protests and was present at the large gathering in Belgrade on March 15, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source<\/strong>: Danas<\/a>; Photo<\/strong>: Pedja Milosavljevi\u0107 \/ STARSPORT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The best water polo player in Serbia, Du\u0161an Mandi\u0107, did not appear at the reception with the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107. The reasons for Mandi\u0107’s failure to attend the reception are not known. President Vu\u010di\u0107 received the players and coaching staff of the new champion of Europe, as well as the leaders of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":199383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8672,4023,91,113,2916],"class_list":["post-199382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","tag-aleksandar-vucic-6","tag-dusan-mandic","tag-sport","tag-srbija","tag-vaterpolo","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199394,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199382\/revisions\/199394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}