If the president really invited Jokić to play in Paris, then he should not announce it as part of his marketing, says Duško Vujošević for "Vreme". He adds that everyone, including Jokic, is an intermediary for Vučić to stay in power
President Aleksandar Vučić recently boasted that he personally called Nikola Jokić so that he would was on the team for the Olympic Games.
"If the president really called him, which I think is a mistake, then he should not announce it as part of his marketing," says the famous coach Duško Vujošević in a big interview for "Vreme".
"The players are different, very talented and less talented, smart and less smart, but they are a difficult people because they all have a lot of vanity. It is already undermining the team spirit in the national team when you announce that you called Jokic. Maybe now everyone is expecting that presidential invitation," adds Vujošević.
He says that players deserve certain privileges when they sacrifice rest and recovery by playing for the national team, but that this should also apply to players who are not members of the Serbian Progressive Party.
"But it seems to me that Vučić did it in order to take credit for Jokić's playing as well." To him, all of us, including Jokić in this situation, are intermediate means," adds Vujošević.
First button fastened incorrectly
"Yes, Vučić is very hard-working, dedicated, he has perfected the technology of coming and staying in power, all the tricks of a spin dictator, he is smart, but he is a great evil for Serbia." And his intelligence is of the kind like when you fasten the first button on a shirt incorrectly, and then all the buttons go wrong," says the former coach of Partizan.
We also talked with Vujošević about how he became unwelcome at Partizan matches, why he didn't keep quiet and why he supports Željko Obradović's way of fighting, as well as what real successes he acknowledges to Vučić's government.
A big interview with Dusko Vujošević is the cover topic of the next issue of "Vremena", which will hit newsstands on Thursday (June 13).
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