Zlatko Zahović is convinced he knows the reason why Maribor hasn’t been winning trophies lately: “This wouldn’t have happened if I were still at the club”
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Maribor will also end the year 2024 without winning any trophies. Last year, both trophies in Slovenia were won by Olimpija, this year the champion was Celje, and in the cup final, Gorica and Rogaška will play. Zlatko Zahović, the long-time sporting director of Maribor, emphasized in his own style that such a crisis wouldn’t have happened to the purple team if he were still at the club.
“Of course, it’s like this when I’m not at the club,” Zlatko Zahović emphasized in an interview with Mozzart Sport. The legendary Styrian added: “Since I left, they have won only one title. When I was at the club, Maribor won 8 in 14 years. Let me remind you: when we arrived, we didn’t even have money for laundry detergent.”
The question followed whether he might have had to help the club from Ljudski vrata with his own money. Zlatko Zahović replied: “Do you know that you are the first journalist to ask me this? No one asked me this in Slovenia for years. But I wouldn’t answer. But you know how it is: when you identify with the club, you give your all. Not just professionally and energetically, but also financially. Everyone knows the answer, but no one asked me the question. That’s the society we live in. That’s what we chose, and I accept it.“
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