After the interruption of the cup final in Novi Sad because of the fans, Zvezda’s withdrawal of the team from the field and the interruption of the match in Leskovac, in a short time we have a third situation that does not go well with the good image of handball in Serbia.
After the defeat against Obilić on Sunday (27:29), the second in a short time, this time in the playoffs for survival, the coach of Vranjanac Đorđe Teodorović after the match, he accused the Knights of “not behaving chivalrously”:
– There is one thing that worries me. I have to say, I’m an athlete. It’s my fault that the Knights aren’t knights in all matches – he said Teodorovic in the post-match conference after admitting his team played a desperate first half in which they conceded 21 goals and eight in the second, adding:
– That is their legitimate right. The match they played in Ubu burns me. I know what their quality is. When they play at full strength, we practically have very little chance, and I know that we have a quality team. Absolutely all teams from the lower house have very little chance against them. People choose matches in which they will play at full strength. It hurts me, but I hope that as a league we will eradicate it soon and that we will have teams that burn in all matches. I congratulate Obilić on his victory and wish him luck in the continuation of the competition – he said Teodorovicwho is also the head coach of the junior national team of Serbia.
The coach of Vranje had a similar remark after the duel with Zvezda, when he wondered how the red and whites had previously lost in Kać.
After three rounds of play-outs, his team is still second to last with the same number of points (9) as the last Proleter and with two less than Ub. At the end of the season, two teams are eliminated directly, the third plays a play-off with the runner-up from the Super B League.
PAVLOVIĆ: WE DID NOT TAKE A DINAR FROM ANYONE
Obilić, who has twice as many points as the people from Vranje, in that sense, four rounds before the end of the play-out, took care of his worries about survival. Coach Obilić Marko Pavlovic he did not remain obliged to the direct roll call of his colleague Teodorović.
– You are not in my shoes, so you don’t know who is hurt and who is not. The important thing – I choose the team and I am responsible for it. I can proudly say that we are Knights from head to toe, because we did not take a single dinar from any club that asked us for points, offered money directly or indirectly, called through this or that. – he interrupted Pavlovic:
– We play fair, because of the people who struggle to pay us. They are small, but we get them regularly. We proudly go out on the field, we fight. We are not Barcelona, but since the spring we have won six out of seven games with direct competitors. So we have proven who we are and what we are.
Coach Obilić’s words continued like an avalanche:
– We have no one to justify ourselves to, we hold our faces high. My right to eat, I choose what I want and how I want it. I didn’t introduce Sladić in this game in the second half because his back hurt. If we take two points at Banjica, and he is disabled, it doesn’t cross my mind. I knew that backroom stories would start, I told them on Thursday: “As you know and know how, come, lose, but everyone plays.” We took two much-needed points to end speculation about survival, so let the rest see between themselves who will beat whom.
And for the end Palović said:
– Dogs are barking, caravans are passing by, all the best to you. There is one golden catchphrase – Get in and out of your mouth. Watch your yard, win your matches. You have enough quality to beat both Ub and Proleter – he was clear Pavlovic.
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