At major tournaments, Serbian football players are a walking example of the importance of "participating". More than that is completely impossible with a coach who was a great player and then became a coaching fraud
After 270 minutes of football in the worst group on European Championship, Serbia goes home last, with one goal conceded and, if we're being kind, two or three half-chances that were the result of the incident.
Serbia probably showed the worst football at the European Championship, counting even the tortured Albania.
Selector Dragan Stojković Pixi is proud of the "boys". After the game with Denmark in which he surprised everyone, Pixie talked about the even game.
After the match against Slovenia, he said that the Serbian team had more accurate passes and more possession of the ball. After the match against England, he said the same thing.
It borders on unbelievable that a man who was a player of world fame on the bench seems like a football illiterate.
What was the idea behind the bunker he set up against Denmark to then play with three attackers at once? In Pixie's cosmos, it seems that it cannot be "opened" too soon. And I guess we will give a goal towards the end somehow, so we gave it to Slovenia.
He seems to be a slave to that great game in Portugal, when he led the team to the last world championship. And that match was an incident, the highlight of this generation, which once again brought only disappointment to the fans. Serbia participates in major tournaments, but cannot beat anyone there.
We are used to it
That's where we come to the second - brighter? - a way of looking at things. Serbia simply does not have the material that would guarantee it something better. It is a national team that is a mere European average and it is already a big deal when it goes to the tournament.
Only, in a country that loves football and football so much, where everyone is a coach, and Rade Bogdanović's famous jokes are the pinnacle of analysis, those trips to the tournament no longer satisfy anyone.
The Croats were also eliminated, but before that they were on the world stage twice. Why don't we sometimes make it to the quarterfinals?
Secondly, aren't there national teams that achieve more with less playing material? Those who, at least on the field, act as if they know what they want, like Slovenia or Austria... They are not football superpowers either.
We, on the other hand, are not passing the group stage of the competition in this millennium either by mistake or by a combination of circumstances. This is the fifth tournament in a row.
Classic populist
There was no way with Pixie this time. He also lost the aura of a motivator, he fought what the team had been playing so far, wandered in changing the line-up more than any other coach, kept the captain on the bench, and he behaved like an offended bride.
Pixie sells himself as a man of the people, a classic populist. He plays with the same two forwards first so he can tell how we played offensively. Then, when they criticize him, he does the opposite. Then he ordered an assault so that he could later tell the journalists that we perished gloriously.
It was a painful 270 minutes of football without good action, without a baptized cross, but above all without an idea. It happens that a team without a coach doesn't even have an idea.
The Pixies are now planning appearances in the Nations League. He does not plan to resign.
Considering the state of Serbian football and the schemes that govern it, it is not excluded that we will still see an ignoramus on the bench, how he loses his bearings every time, then faints to wake up before the press conference where he will already come up with some reason that he is proud of " guys" and myself.
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