Serbia: Dragan Stojkovic, Spanish executioner in Italy’90
Likely lineups:
Spain: Stripe; Mingueza, Laporte, Vivian, Cucurella; Subimendi, Aleix Garcia; Fabian, Pedri, Brian Zaragoza; and Mora.
Serbia: Rajkovic; Nedeljkovic, Erakovic, Milenkovic, Pavlovich, Birmantsevich; Nemanja Maksimovic, Grujic, Zjelar, Samardzic; and Mitrovic.
Judge: Daniel Stefanski (PAUL)
Stadium: New Arcangel (Cordoba)
Hour: 20.45.
Spain team receives Serbia in the match of the fourth day of the tournament UEFA Nations LeagueThe match is scheduled for this Tuesday at 20:45. Spain arrive at Nuevo Arcángel de Cordoba as group leaders after a draw and two wins midway through the group stage.
A draw was achieved on the first day with the same opponent, only in Belgrade. Serbia It seems to be a difficult and strong opponent, and has traditionally been so. Spain has achieved 10 wins and eight draws with five defeats 26 goals for – 19 against.
One of those five defeats came in the round of 16. Italy, 1990 World Cup.. This was Quinta del Buitre’s last chance to prove themselves with the Spanish team and the group stage was not entirely brilliant, but they secured a place in the round of 16. Yugoslavia played, and in one of their last appearances as a single team, Plavi eliminated La Roja.
Famous Spanish fans played on this team, such as Faruk Hadzibegic (Real Betis) or Pedrag Spasic (Real Madrid), stars such as Darko Panchev or Dejan Savisevich, rivals in Milan, but in the match against Spain he showed his light, scoring a double. Dragan Stojkovic. He is the one who now takes the reins of the Serbia national team from the bench.
Stojkovic gave Yugoslavia the lead but then equalized Julio Salinas almost at the end of the 90 full-time minutes, the then midfielder reappeared to pick up a direct foul. With the number “10” on his back, the midfielder played in the center of the field and had excellent shooting from set-pieces, as well as accuracy in passing and attacking, as La Roja unfortunately saw.
He won in Red Star of Belgradewhere he, despite his position, became the top scorer in his first season and was voted the best footballer of the year in Yugoslavia. This made him take the international leap and become Olympic Marseille which in Europe tried to repeat Sacchi’s Milan.
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In his first year in France, Stojkovic was part of the team that won Ligue 1 and qualified for Ligue 1. European Cup Finalwhere the goddess of fortune wanted to test him by playing against his former team. Red Star won on penalties, and the main hero, despite himself, was the Serb, because He refused to participate in the fateful round. “If I, like a Yugoslav, kick him out, the Marseillais will kill me on the field. And if I kick him out, I won’t be able to return to my country,” he told the media.
The following year he was transferred to Hellas Veronaand returned to Marseille in the 1992–93 season just in time to see the French rematch in the final of the now famous tournament. Champions Leaguealthough he was only part of the squad after falling out of favor. To top it all off, Olympic was demoted in 1994 due to financial problems amid scandals with the then president, Bernard Tapie.
He retired in Nagoya Japanese, where he became a star. In front of the benches he walked through the offices, being the president of his country’s federation and the president of the Federation Red Star. He started as a coach in Nagoya, where he left such good memories as a player, and after traveling around Asia he finally became Serbia coach in 2021 to date.
Dragan Stojkovic: “We have the same number of victims as in Spain”
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Serbia returned to the fight for reaching the quarterfinals of the tournament League of Nations after last Saturday’s 2-0 win over Switzerland. Frame Alexander Mitrovichwho was absent on the previous call.
The Balkan team is a team rocky and with lots of targetswhere, along with Mirovich, in addition to the resource of the former Madrid player, Sasa Lukic and Lazar Samardzic stand out as the most talented players. Luka Jovic.
Stojkovic has Andria MaksimovichSerbia’s new sensation, making his debut in his last match against Switzerland when he was just 17 years old. and given the new fashion of betting on youth full of impudence, Andrie Maksimovica very classy attacking midfielder for Red Star, hoping to get some minutes at Nuevo Arcangel in the second half.
The Balkans don’t seem to miss the Juventus striker Dusan Vlahovicwho in September refused to participate in the competition for personal reasons, and this time was excluded by the decision of the coach.
At a press conference Stojkovic stated: “I don’t expect a match like the one in Belgrade. There we played well defensively, we played very tactically and Spain are a team that can dominate you with the ball, there are opportunities to take advantage.” moments that can be dangerous on the topic “We want to be a team that doesn’t give up, I want it to show responsibility and desire.”
Moreover, he repeated that when they say that There are “many victims” in Spainthey are in the same boat. “We won’t be able to count on Vlahovic or Milinkovic-Savic. We all face the problem of the calendar, but Spain is a team with a lot of players. I don’t think they’ll have any difficulty finding a replacement,” he said. .