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Zoran “Moka” Slavnić, a legendary Serbian basketball player, spoke about the differences between the Croatian and our basketball.
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The former Serbia coach, who was a member of Šibenik during his rich playing career, along with Crvena zvezda and Partizan, analyzed where Croatia went wrong.
In an extensive interview with Vecernji list, he compared the two countries, but also why he continues to suffer for Yugoslavia.
“It’s a shame that Aca Petrovic, as a coach, ate his narcissism, because it would be ideal and you could succeed with this generation.Slavnić began.
On one occasion he declared that the Croatian national team does not have “players and children of dogs”.
“Yes, I did say it once. When I joined the national team, I didn’t understand what was meant by son of a bitch. And that’s not an insult, but someone is believed to be a scoundrel. We have that sporting insolence, that audacity, it adorns us more than you Croats. You are mostly polite, nice and easy going. Unlike the basketball players from Zagreb, who were decent as girls, Skansi and Tvrdić were a bit more daring, so after my arrival as coach in Split, my first task was to pamper the players of that time a bit.‘”.
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He agreed with the famous Dino Rađa that the problem in Croatia is also in sports workers.
“You are a master at destroying basketball. I can’t believe a Split can’t recover. So what do your sports workers do? Is salt water so brainwashed that you no longer understand anything?“.
Slavnić went one step further by analyzing certain Croatian athletes and their attitude towards Serbia.
“As an athlete, I traveled all over the world and now I prefer simple trips around Serbia. We were also in Croatia, of which I have very good memories, which does not mean that I think well of everyone. I don’t like nationalists, I had no contact with them. I am a nostalgic Yugoslav and I will die like this, and if a Croatian is not allowed to say that, that is your problem. It has fulfilled its wish for secession and it is not necessary to have a Serb-Yugoslavia complex, and I see that everything that was good at that time is being erased from them. We don’t have to love each other, but there is no need to hate each other. We must not be poisoned by politics, and some of its athletes during the war were quick to say something against the Serbs to get on the ass of the political establishment.“, He concluded.
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