Miran Pavlin reveals how he motivated national team players when their dreams were within reach: without a big competition, you only had half a career
Source of photo: Football Association of Slovenia (NZS)
We have had a working week in which we got what we have been longing for for almost a decade and a half.
Slovenia
will play in a major competition again for the first time since 2010, and for the first time in 24 years, will taste the taste of the European Championships. After the big triumph, Miran Pavlin, the national team director, also spoke to Večer and revealed how he motivated the players even more when their dreams were within reach.
“You all have great club careers. Okay. But if you don’t go to a big competition with your country, to the European Championships or the World Championships, you’ve only had… half a career. Now they have done … everything!“, Miran Pavlin told Večer what he said to the players in the light of the final Euro 2024 qualifiers in Germany.
Miran Pavlin, who played at the 2000 European Championship in
Netherlands
and Belgium, meanwhile, pointed out in an interview with Nogomania that the fact that Matjaz Kek ‘s charges started to play with heart for Slovenia also made the difference in the qualifiers.
“It is essential that in recent years we have regained our national consciousness. Four years ago, we didn’t have the pride to play for the Slovenian coat of arms, the jersey and the fans. We like to look across the border, at our neighbours, at what it’s like there. Our boys are now playing with pride for Slovenia. All of them, but I will single out Verbič and Stojanović just as an example. Their hearts are bigger than their bodies. They suffered, they had problems, but they gave a lot,” added Miran Pavlin, former assistant to Zlatko Zahović at Maribor.
This text was automatically translated using AI.
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