The former head coach of the national team of Russia Velimir Petkovic told Handballfast author Bojan Soc about the farewell with the players after the final match as a head of the team.
— We did a great job indeed and finally became a real team. I was touched when I saw at least eight players in tears after my last match as a head of the team.
It was in March in Chekhov, when we defeated the team of Belarus with a difference of nine balls (37:28 — Handballfast). After the final siren I gathered everyone in the locker room and said it was my last match as the head of the national team. And although I had already announced my departure before, when a two-meter guy with 120kg of muscles hugs you, you understand that you had left something good after you, managed to find a way to the soul of this man and had worked not in wain.
Indeed, guys were crying, this is how love is expressed, and these tears are a real reward for the input of effort. It means, that I wasn’t the one, brought by the Federation leadership, and I was the one, who became the part of that environment and who made a family from the team. Despite my age, it was hard to see their tears. I don’t even know how I managed to finish my speech, — Velimir Petkovic shared.
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