Television personality Dejan Anđus described his television colleague Edin Avdić as a "liar" who wanted to join the "blockaders" alluding that Vučić is not loved by the people. Avdić has not been on the air since the beginning of February
Television entertainer and government propagandist Dejan Andjus in a live broadcast, he pronounced his "sentence" on his colleague from Arena Sport TV, Edin Avdić.
He described Avdic as a "disguised partisan" and a "liar" who "spread hatred towards the current president of the republic wrapped in the form of a basketball commentary" from the Arena.
"He thought that the government in Serbia was shaken, so he tried quietly to join the blockaders," said Anđus, "with a story about the authentic love of the fans and the people for Željko Obradović, with the allusion that the people don't like someone else like that."
According to Andjus, it is "known" that the people love President Aleksandar Vučić because they have been voting for him for a long time and will continue to do so. He continued with the story about how "all the stars" hate Željko Obradović and so on.
Avdic, one of the most respected basketball commentators in the region, has not commented on games on television since the beginning of February, where he has been working for many years.
He spoke about it only once, briefly, saying that the situation was "delicate" and that he received a lot of support from all sides. "When there is complete information, then I will also say something," Avdić said a month ago in the podcast "Udvajanje".
In the saga surrounding the departure of coach Željko Obradović from Partizan, Avdić clearly sided with the coach, criticizing the club's management. He also appeared on the show of journalist-partisan Vladan Tegeltija and asked questions to the president of the basketball club, Ostoja Mijailović.
The words to which Anđus now alludes were also spoken in the "Doubling" podcast. "Željko Obradović was the personification of Partizan and no matter how hard it might be for someone to accept or someone, I don't even know, was so out of his mind that he couldn't understand it, that's just the way it is!"
"Some people enjoy that reputation, that popularity, people love them so much, and you hear some illiterate people talking like, I don't even know, 'personality cult', this-that... Željko didn't pay those people to love him, they naturally love him. And you know, I understand that maybe it's others' fault that they don't enjoy that kind of love," Avdić said then.
As "Vreme" has learned, the future of Edin Avdić at Arena Sport - now monopolists of all broadcasts - has not yet been fully clarified. The television owned by the Serbian state Telekom did not advertise either.
It is clear that Avdić spoke more outside of that television than can normally be heard on that television, although he himself avoids commenting on politics.
Arena Sport is notorious for turning down the sound from Partizan's stands when insulting President Aleksandar Vučić is heard. Their commentators therefore do not sit in the hall, but commentate from the studio.
Željko Obradović was caught in the teeth of the regime's media even when, at the very beginning, he supported the student protests. As "Vreme" wrote, he left Partizan due to a set of circumstances in which political pressure also plays a role.
Dejan Anđus, bizarre TV guru who became famous for his laconic comments on politics and sports and by presenting himself as an insider, has publicly adored President Aleksandar Vučić in recent years.
This adoration came about after Anđus was filmed and then arrested in 2017 for allegedly extorting 30.000 euros from a businessman. He was acquitted three years later.
During that period, he "changed his mind" and went from being a critic of the Vučić brothers to becoming their biggest fan. That bought him a place on the air on what is now the only sports television in Serbia. And carte blanche to say whatever he wants.
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