The disaster was completed with a "slap" from Switzerland, which will leave our handball team red-faced for a long time - Montenegro ended the European Championship with a 43:26 defeat.
In their eighth appearance at the Old Continent championships, the "lions" did not win a single point, and in three matches they conceded as many as 121 goals. Along with the disastrous performance, the attitude in the last match is particularly worrying, and does all this mean that Didije Dinar will no longer be the coach of Montenegro?
"I absolutely want to continue and continue to be the coach of Montenegro. I am not disappointed in any of the players, we win together and lose together. I believe in them and I say - I want to continue because it is a great chance and a big deal if we qualify for the World Cup," Dinar told RTCG.
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It's hard to explain a 17-goal defeat against a team that isn't one of the world's top teams, yet the legendary Frenchman says that all of this is nothing new to him.
"Against Slovenia, there was a psychophysical exhaustion and the disappointment was enormous. It was clear then that the second match would be decisive and we failed that test. In such situations, it is difficult to play the third match in the championship, when you know that you have been eliminated. Then the car starts to go downhill - I have witnessed such situations in the past and I was afraid of it today," added Dinar.
It sounds unreal that the team of the once best defender on the planet concedes an average of 40 goals per match at the European Championship.
"That's right, I was the king of defense, but in a French team that had a wide rotation. We have an idea of how to play defense, but we don't have enough players for it, especially in today's handball when everything happens at a high speed," concluded Dinar.
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