President Vucic receives European champions: "If they bring gold from Paris, each will get 200,000"

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President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic today received Serbia's men's national team in 3x3 basketball.

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The Serbian champions won the gold medal at the European Championship held in Jerusalem, and the president pointed out that he is really proud of them.

"These people have become accustomed to bringing a medal bak from every competition, and they are mostly gold pones. And they are unhappy when they don't win gold. This is now an Olympic sport, and we hope for gold from Paris," he said.

The president thanked the coaching staff and everyone who worked with our athletes.

"Majstorovic, Vasin, Barac, Kojic, everyone who brings us these magnificent medals. I only watched the semifinal against Latvia, unfortunately I couldn't watch the final against Lithuania, but I will watch the recording, I heard it was a difficult game," said Vucic.

He spoke with 3x3 basketballers before making these remarks, and revealed that the prize for each will be 200,000 euros if they win gold at the Olympics.

"I want to thank them for their enormous effort and work, we will do what is up to us, and it is up to them to show us that with their work, ambition and love for sport and Serbia once again and make us happy," the president said

Vucic added that a slip can hardly happen with 3x3 basketballers.

"I'm sort of training to become that kind of coach. The score was 21-18, but believe me, the winner was not in doubt for a single second. They kept it under control all the time, you saw their complete supremacy over the opponent," he said.

The president then thanked the golden athletes and wished them much success.

"I know you have a lot of meetings, and I also have some not-so-nice things awaiting for me in Brussels," said Vucic.

(Telegraf.rs)