He was affected by what happened to his player…
Former coach of Čukarički Dusan Kerkez currently serves as the head of the professional staff Boteva from Plovdiv and in the derby of the Bulgarian championship, his team played a draw with By Lokomotiv – 2:2
However, what followed after the match attracts a lot of attention, namely the Serbian coach’s conference. He pointed out that his footballers and their families are not enough protected, as if they were Serbs and Bulgarian peasants.
– When we played a match with Panathinaikos, the girlfriend of one of my players was walking her dog and someone from the restaurant threw a tomato at her. It is a shame that this happened in Plovdiv. Why? Because he made a mistake during the game. I refuse to accept that. I am aware that the person was probably very drunk, but some of the people criticizing would have to know what was going on. Maybe someone else will shoot with a harder object. It can happen to anyone, my wife. Real Botev fans wouldn’t do that, maybe he was a fan of another team, I don’t know. I still can’t believe that something like that can happen in Plovdiv – Kerkez began his presentation.
He is ready, as he says, to leave because of such events.
– I will always stand by my players, so if I have to leave because of that, I will leave today. Such things must not happen, to target their wives because of something that happened at the match is unacceptable.
Then came the angry words that echoed in Serbia as well.
– This can only happen in the Balkans, in Bulgaria and Serbia. Only in our countries. We are peasants, all of us! Both Serbs and Bulgarians! Do we want to go to Europe? How should we go to Europe?
He shifted his focus from fans to other things that bother him.
– Only in Bulgaria and Serbia do we postpone every game. Everyone plays for three days, why are we postponing the games? Now everyone will ask us why we didn’t postpone, and if we had won they would have told us ‘well done’. We have to learn to play this way. Maybe we will postpone it for two or three weeks, when the moment is right, the players will be very tired. However, we were not tired now. We only played poorly at the beginning, in the second half we played at a good level. My staff is to blame for that. Again, what happened to my player, his girlfriend, is a shame for Plovdiv – said the former coach of Čukarički.
Source: hotsport.rs
