The Head coach of the men’s national team of Serbia, Tony Gerona, announced the list of players he is counting on in the duels with France (5.1 Zrenjanin – 9.1 Crete) and Greece (13.1 Zrenjanin) within the qualifications for the European Championship in 2022 in Hungary and Slovakia. The previously planned action of the national team in October within the EHF week was postponed due to the bad epidemiological situation among the opponents, the national teams of Greece and Belgium, so the expectations of the head of the „Eagles“ professional staff are primarily focused on gathering on December 27 at the FSS center in Stara Pazova. newsletter. Without difficulties, however, it was not possible this time either.
Throughout this period, we regularly hold meetings of the professional staff, where we monitor the form of the players and discuss their qualities. The situation we live in has brought us challenges again that we have to deal with. Due to family reasons, we will be without Nemanja Zelenović, brothers Ilić and Marko Vujin at this gathering. We have an understanding for that. For that reason, we will create a wider group of players, to have various options, and we will see some young players like Dodić, Petrić, Popović who play well in Čurg. The idea is to complete after the New Year with the arrival of players from Veszprem (Cupara and Nenadic) who will participate in the F4 Champions League and select 18 players for the matches with France and Greece – says Gerona and adds:
– In agreement with the doctor, we are still thinking about how to enable the players to see their families during the holidays. We’ll see if that’s feasible. It is important to be together, this will be our first action and believe me, I can’t wait to work with the players in training. We talk for a long time, we watch videos, but the field is something else. I hope that we will have the first training on December 28.
FRANCE AND GREECE
France has similar problems. For these reasons, they formed a wider group of players, included some younger ones, there will be 23-24 of them. They have a lot of players in the F4 Champions League, so they will be completed later. When you play against France, it doesn’t matter who is on the field opposite you, because you know that it is a serious, super quality team. And there, this action will be the first job for the new coach Gilles. We watched their matches from the last European Championship, and we also know the players who play in the league there. They play hard in defense and run a lot. They are constant at top speed. The Greeks have been in the Camp for two weeks now, where they only need players who play abroad. A difficult match awaits us. They always play at 100%. I hope that we will conclude the January action with some points that will pave the way for us to EHF EURO 2022 – Tony Gerona is clear.
