Experienced Jasmin Kurtić gives emotional speech at national team assembly: ‘Just thinking about it makes my voice shake a little’
Brdo pri Kranju is lively again. The football centre under the Gorenjski peaks is occupied by the best Slovenian football players. Not to rest there and have a nice time. Far from it. Something big is in the air – Slovenia could take an important step towards its first major competition in 13 years in October. Jasmin Kurtić, a veteran of the Slovenian national team, confessed to the gathered seventh force that this is something that drives him on, something that he still wants to achieve in his otherwise colourful, rich and very successful career.
Jasmin Kurtic: “I can’t tell you how long I’ve been waiting”
“I can’t tell you how long I’ve been waiting and how much I want to qualify for the big competition. This is the dream that every football player, young or old, should have. I will give everything I can to help us succeed, by sight or by foul. Sometimes you have to win the ugly way. We will do our utmost to make it happen. I will be the first, but I have a group of guys behind me who are husbands first and teammates second. We will all do our utmost to get there,” Jasmin Kurtić delivered a very emotional speech to the gathering of the selected team.
The Belokranjska native, who is now earning his living in Romania, is also very happy that Slovenia will host Finland on Saturday at a sold-out Stožice Arena. “This means that we are close to something that could be historic. Not only for me, not only for us, but also for our families, our children who watch us, our fans. It’s something that makes you proud, you and everyone around you. I’m proud to be back here with the boys. It has always been that way, and I can say that I am prouder and prouder. But we have to be careful, we have two particularly important matches ahead of us and everything depends on us. Everyone must be prepared for anything. Just thinking about it makes my voice tremble a little,” says Jasmin Kurtić, who is convinced that the real Slovenia will be a huge undertaking for anyone.
When we are right, everyone has a problem with us
“We have to be the right ones. Because when we are, everyone has a problem with us, no matter what qualities and other virtues adorn them,” says the 34-year-old Romanian midfielder Universitatea Craiova, who has played 85 games for the Slovenian national team so far.
This text was automatically translated using AI.
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