At the European Championship in Croatia, he suffered a serious shoulder injury in the farewell match against Slovenia, in the 1st round of qualifying for the new championship of the Old Championship, in a duel with the Faroe Islands, he broke his finger, and now he experienced another bad luck - Nebojša Simović ruptured his bicep, which is why he has to rests for a minimum of three weeks. Therefore, the main player of the defense of the handball national team of Montenegro will have to miss the first European Championship with 24 selections.
The veteran from Cetinje was injured in a collision with a teammate during the first training session, but it was awaited for the swelling to subside and the extent of the injury to be determined. The findings of the magnetic resonance examination saddened everyone in the "lions" camp, because the 26-year-old pivot of the Romanian Dobrođea sud definitely dropped out of the competition for the EHF Euro.
Coach Zoran Roganović, who learned the bad news in Sweden, where he had to return to lead his Eskilstuna Guif against Istad last night, is having a hard time bearing his absence.
- I told Simović that, looking at our path and development through the qualifications, I don't know if we grew with him, or if he grew with the team's play. He was our most important player in the qualifiers. It's a pity that he won't be with us, because he kept our defense. We will miss him a lot - said Roganović for "Vijesti".
Given that the selector had already announced the list of 16 players who were supposed to play at the European Championship, it was necessary to call a replacement. A player with similar characteristics to Simović was selected - 31-year-old pivot Vuk Lazović, who also plays in the pivot position.
Lazović is currently a member of the Korean SK Hawks, and tomorrow he will play his last game in 2019. Immediately after that, he will arrive in Montenegro and will join his teammates on December 2, when the "Germans" Nebojša Simić, Vladan Lipovina and Stefan Čavor will also be there.
The former handball player of Partizan, Crvena zvezda, Vardar, Vojvodina, German Lübeck and Romanian Dunare played for Montenegro at the previous European Championship. For the EHF Euro in Poland 2016, he dropped out at the last minute, because he got smallpox, which caused him big problems.
He hasn't worn the "lions" shirt since June of last year, when the team of the then coach Dragan Đukić scored a consolation victory over Croatia (32:31) in the rematch of the play-off for the World Cup in Denmark and Germany. Fate wanted his first official match on his return to the national team to be against Croatia, on January 9 in Graz in the 1st round of Group A at the European Championship.
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