Ivica Tucak, the Croatian water polo coach known for his direct speech, in a recent appearance on the Lood podcast openly commented on social injustices and distorted values in the sport.
He was especially surprised huge earnings of football players against other professions and world crises.
He compared the salaries of footballers to the work of doctors, emphasizing the absurdity.
I’m sitting with, I can say my friend, the doctor Stipe Jadrijević. What does that man do in life, what does he go through. He saves people, extracts livers, transplants. And then there is this one here billions of euros because he kicks the ballthat laughter, said Tucak, reports Index.
“What started happening?”
Tucak criticized the global disparity in times of wars and poverty.
How will all this end, this madness we live in, this disproportion. Here wars, here shit, murders… Here he plays football and earns a hundred billion. A kind of Viniciuswith all due respect to the boyfriend, the guy… earns that kind of money.
So where did this come from, don’t bother me! What started happening? Come on, a million, two, five… or ten of something. I am an athlete myself and I know what it takes to be successful. But this one earns a billion, a people are dying of hunger here. The humor of the times we live in, Tucak added.
He criticized social networks and the superficiality of modern life.
I keep stressing that, in the time of these kind of social networks, this madness, the announcement, I would call a gypsy. Today, everyone has a need to post something on social networks. You know, if you traveled somewhere, visited something, had a good time. If you didn’t post, it’s like you weren’t there. It is so pitiful, wretched, awful to me.
An example is Luka Modrić
Tucak warned against the wrong priorities of parents, using Luka Modrić as an example of rare success.
We will mention our celebrated Luka Modrić. Everyone would like to be Luka Modric. But not everyone can be Luka Modrić, that’s clear. It is not the children’s problem. It is clear that the child has his own dreams and wants to be Luka Modrić.
That is the message that Luka Modrić is sending through his life. Success, how to do what he did from a small environment. But not everyone can be Modrić and then today you have parents who sacrifice both education and those basic, fundamental values. In the end, one of them is a million Lukas, and the other 999,999,999 ended up somewhere, not all of them of course, on the wrong path, said Ivica Tucak.
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