Zrinjski coach Igor Štimac commented on the situation in the WWin League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and on that occasion he called out the fans of Sarajevo, Velež and Željeznicar.
He pointed out that football is in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the level of what was the beginning of the Croatian league, where there are a lot of sheriffs, pressures, adulation and everything else. This is not the right way for a league to stabilize, improve and become an example of what it should be, an example of a sports fight and competition.
When asked about the quality of football, he said that it falls into the background.
It falls into the background. Because those guys are working hard, training, sweating and looking for their way to a brighter future subordinate to what one’s interests are, said the Croatian strategist for “My TV”.
Asked whose interests it was about, he said:
The interests of individual clubs at a particular moment, of a particular nation, because here we know that everything works according to some kind of key. There should be no place for that in sports.
He also spoke about the matches against Borac, Sarajevo and Željeznicar.
When we look at the quality of teams, players, he is quite good. There are also very good young players, those of middle age who are experienced, who can help the teams achieve a result.
I think that the success of Borc last year and Zrinjski from this year in the European competition is a clear indicator of the reflection of quality. These are relevant indicators. People will wonder why they are not here Sarajevo, Zeljo…
I would say they are the ones two clubs burdened by fan influence in what is the management of the club and that this weight, which is evidently carried by Hajduk and Dinamo, has much more difficult conditions for achieving concrete results. They put pressure on the players wearing the jersey.
His announcements attract attention, and he also spoke about the insults that are a consequence of that, reports Raport.
Maybe it was a bit awkward in Koševo. And at the Velež stadium. And that’s one of the reasons why I have no empathy for those clubs. These are the clubs that are hostages of their fans. Let’s call them fans. And which will not leave the scope of small clubs even though they were once big, concluded Štimac.
(www.jabuka.tv)
