Ante Guberac claims everything was agreed with the teenager: Luka Žavbi knew he would be replaced, Koper is counting on him very seriously
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Public criticism and much more harsh criticism of Milan Pavlin on the one hand, and the repulsion of attacks by Koper on the other. All this followed Saturday’s match in Rogaška Slatina, where Safet Hadžić, the coach of Koper, called a 17-year-old player to the bench after less than a minute of play. Luka Žavbi was “sacrificed” due to the rules of the Football Association of Slovenia, so Koper started the match with a player who can play for the national team under 21, but after only 45 seconds they decided to go for 21-year-old Croatian player Gabriel Groznica.
Now Ante Guberac has also spoken out, saying that the swap was agreed in advance, with all the players, including the young man. The first man of Koper also stressed that Luka Žavbi has a bright future at Bonifika and that the coastal club is counting on him.
“What consequences! The boy knows what it’s all about, we’ve agreed on everything. Relationships within our club are well established. And the boy also knows that we are counting on him. Like many others. Young people are very important to us, we work with them. After all, the fact that Luka has been training with the first team for several months and that he has already made his debut in the national team competition and played in both cup competitions so far this season shows that Luka is in our plans. But the public did not attach importance to this, nobody was interested,“, said Ante Guberac for EkipaSN, who at the same time brilliantly rejected the accusations of some that Koper has been neglecting young footballers for a long time anyway.
Guberac replies to Pavlin between the lines
“I don’t know why others are so concerned about us. We know how to look after ourselves. We are definitely working hard to develop talented players, we are paying a lot of attention to this and maybe in the near future we will get to the point where there will be three players on the pitch who will meet the U21 rule. No, we are not neglecting young people, as some people accuse us of. Not by chance,“, stressed Ante Guberac, who also responded to Miran Pavlin, the NZS National Team Director, between the lines.
“I really don’t know why there is such a fuss about it, why is everyone making such a big deal about this swap? Finally, we have created a problem for ourselves. It’s our club thing. I think we have much more important things to talk about. The ones that made people lose confidence in Slovenian football, and many started to question the regularity of the championship,“, the alpha and omega of the club from the port city concluded his interview for the Slovenian sports daily.
This text was automatically translated using AI.
Author: editorial Football Planet