One of the symbols of that city, the man who created Montenegrin handball - Miodrag-Miško Popović - died in Cetinje at the age of 81.
During his decades of work in Lovcen, Cepelin and Perper, he made countless great handball players, the greatest among them being Veselin Vujović.
One of the best handball players of all time, the first winner of the IHF player of the year award in 1988, Veselin Vujović, was saddened to receive the news of the death of the man he considered his second father.
The current coach of Iran gave a moving farewell to Popović for "Vijesti".
"There are things you fear in life, losing your loved ones. I lost my second father today, no one has ever done as much for me in my career as Miško Popović did. The news caught me in distant Tehran. Nothing will be the same from today, handball, my arrivals in Cetinje, the emotion I experienced every time we meet. I thank him for every word, for every moment, for everything he did to make me a better person and a better athlete than I would be without him," Vujović wrote.
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