Maribor’s dissatisfaction after the match against Rogaška: Šimundža and Iličić outraged by the condition of the pitch in Rogaška Slatina
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Mixture of grass and sand? Something like that. But that evergreen football cliché says: playing conditions are always the same for both teams. However, regardless of everything, in the Maribor camp, they complained publicly about the state of the pitch in Rogaška Slatina after the match.
“Was that a game? For me, it wasn’t a game. It was ball pounding. Well, at least no one got injured. This is not an advertisement for Slovenian football,” emphasized the dissatisfied Maribor coach Ante Šimundža for Sportklub. He continued after the match – which ended in a 0:0 draw – “Anyone who watched the game and knows a bit about football saw how it went. We can’t talk about a game. It was 90 minutes of ball pounding, securing a point. It’s proof of our character. Despite that, we were on a pitch that is not suitable for the first Slovenian league, and in certain segments of the game, we were better and had better opportunities. We won’t say they had better conditions than us. I’m saying the pitch is unsuitable for the first Slovenian league; we are in 2024.”
Josip Iličić: “I’m missing half a knee”
Even the Maribor star Josip Iličić was similarly critical to Šimundža: “I don’t even know if we played football. I don’t know if you can call it that. I don’t know what to say about these conditions. It wasn’t football. It was pounding. It’s like playing with kids. It’s not normal for me, at 36, to have to think about whether I’ll get injured or not. As you can see, I’m missing half a knee because I fell once. If we want football to progress in Slovenia, we’ll have to do a lot to ensure that players have the necessary conditions for progress.”
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