The new selector of the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ivica Obrvan, was promoted on Monday.
Thank you to the people from the Board of RSBiH for their trust and I am honored to take over the national team of BiH. Personally, I think that if you have the opportunity to take over the national team, and you are a foreign citizen, that is a great honor. There has been contact in recent months and we have made an agreement with the aim of raising the level of games, to try to qualify for the Euro. The situation is complex, and in sports it is necessary to work on the next matches. I believe in this team, I can promise work and order. I expect to give my contribution to BiH, a strong match awaits us on Sunday and I hope for the best, Obrvan pointed out, sport1.ba reports.
I also watched a lot of those games, not just in these qualifiers. We have very little time left to prepare. We need to talk about the game plan, the responsibilities in the game, divide the roles between all the players. We have problems with the response of the best players. Marko Panic is absent due to his wife’s pregnancy. I’m sorry he’s not there because he’s playing a great season. We have a problem with Ivan Karačić, because Israel has closed its borders, so we will wait. I believe that we will successfully prepare for the Austrian national team. They played the World Cup weaker than the Euro before. They have a similar backbone team now. I’ve analyzed them well so far, but we still have time. They have several returnees to the national team, such as Janko Božović. We know the national team, all in all we will be ready, added Obrvan.
About rejuvenating the band…
I got the impression that I was brought in as a person who needed to make an incision, a purge. Those who know me know that I am not so strict. Some rules and norms of behavior must be respected. There will be changes in the game structure, but at this point, these three games have to bring out this cycle. From the summer we have to think about rejuvenation. In my opinion, it will go one natural way. Handball, as it has been played so far, I would not like to comment, I will try to impose my vision of handball. For a vision, if you want to implement it, you must have the right staff.
He will work in Zagreb at the same time…
It was a web of circumstances. There are a very large number of coaches, who perform two more functions. We agreed, we gave our word, and after three days they called me from Zagreb and asked for help, more precisely to be the coach of Zagreb. I talked to them and said that if the condition is that I am not the coach of BiH, then I cannot accept, because I gave people my word. In three days, the dual function dropped out, it does not disturb any work processes at this moment and it is not a unique case, but it is a practice and I do not see any problems about it.
