In the previous week, the spotlight was on handball players, who qualified for the European Championship, the next "in the spotlight" will be Montenegrin handball players - the "lions" will gather in Podgorica on Monday, where they will train during the EHF week and play matches with Georgia on Friday and Saturday.
These will be the last checks until the play-offs for the World Cup, in which the team will Government of the School On May 8 or 9 away, or three days later at home to play with the winner of the Belgium - Italy double match.
The Croatian expert invited 23 players, including five from Lovcen - the captain of the national team Mirko Radovic, backs Filip Krivokapić i Milorad Bakić, and pivots Mihailo Scekic i Luka Vujović.
Circle forwards have been invited to the national team before, even when the combined selection played, while Krivokapić and 19-year-old Bakić, the brother of a standard national team player, will Aleksandar Bakić, to be among the "lions" for the first time.
Compared to the team that competed at the European Championship in January, when they won 14th place, there is no Bož Anđelić i Miloš Božović.
The long-time national team members were dissatisfied, because in Munich they practically didn't even get minutes, which is why, as "Vijesti" found out, they told Šola that they will not play for the national team while he is the coach.
Božović was only the fourth or fifth option in the fierce competition of left backs, while Anđelić, although the only true center back (Radojica Čepić is both left and middle) did not get a chance to prove himself at all.
Apart from those two, there is none Stevan Vujović, who practically ended his career with the national team after being eliminated in the first filter for the EHF Euro, Vladan Lipovina he doesn't want to go back, a Nebojsa Simovic didn't get a call again...
Instead of Anđelić and Božović, Krivokapić and Bakić from Lovcen were invited, while there are now five pivots on the list, and Montenegro was the only one with two players in that position at the championship of the Old Continent.
In addition to standard Nemanja Grbović i Vuk Lazović, Šćekić, Vujović and Miodrag Ćorsović, which also dropped when the EP roster was cut from 21 to 18 names.
List - goalkeepers
Nebojsa Simic (Melzungen, Germany)
Nikola Matovic (Amo, Sweden)
Haris Suljević (Scout, BiH)
Wings
Miloš Vujović (Gummerzbach, Germany)
Aleksandar Bakić (Nekse, Croatia)
Filip Vujović (Benidorm, Spain)
Mirko Radovic (Hunted)
Luka Radovic (Saran, France)
Vojislav Vukić (Krka, Slovenia)
Backs
Radojica Čepić (Krinss Lucerne, Switzerland)
Filip Krivokapić (Hunted)
Vasilije Kaluđerović (Al Qadsiya, Kuwait)
Milorad Bakić (Hunted)
Arsenije Dragasevic (Meshkov Brest, Belarus)
Vuko Borozan (Al Hada, Saudi Arabia)
Branko Vujović (Hanover, Germany)
Stefan Čavor (Veclar, Germany)
Risto Vujacic (Hapoel Ashdod, Israel)
Pivots
Vuk Lazovic (Meshkov Brest)
Nemanja Grbović (Steaua, Romania)
Miodrag Ćorsović (Trimo Trebnje, Slovenia)
Mihailo Scekic (Hunted)
Luka Vujović (Hunted)
Now it's official - "lionesses" play in group B in Debrecen
Before the qualifications for the European Championship in Hungary, Austria and Switzerland even started, the plan of the organizers was for Montenegrin handball players to play the group stage in Debrecen.
Now, when the "lionesses" secured a visa, it is official - Bojana Popović's team will play in group B in Debrecen, it remains to be seen whether they will be drawn from the first hat.
And Hungary will play in Debrecen, in group A, and France in C in Basel. Those two selections will almost certainly be opponents of Montenegro in the main stage, because the two best national teams from groups A, B and C will be in the main round. The two best selections from the newly formed group 1 will qualify for the semi-finals, which will be played in Vienna's "Stathalle".
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