{"id":71191,"date":"2025-08-15T21:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/71191\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T21:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:49:06","slug":"serbian-head-coach-svetislav-pesic-worries-about-vasilije-micic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/71191\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbian head coach Svetislav Pesic worries about Vasilije Micic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Eurohoops team \/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/eurobasket\/1857219\/serbian-head-coach-svetislav-pesic-worries-about-vasilije-micic\/maillot:info@eurohops.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian national team is considered among the top favourites to win gold at the upcoming 2025 EuroBasket, with stars like Nikola Joki\u0107 and Bogdan Bogdanovi\u0107 in the squad.<\/p>\n<p>Big Hapoel Tel Aviv signing Vasilije Mici\u0107, a former EuroLeague MVP, is another major weapon for Serbia \u2014 but he is struggling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not in great shape. Smailagi\u0107 and Trifunovi\u0107 are still not ready to practice. We\u2019re trying with Vasa to get him back, but it\u2019s not going according to the plan we had in mind. Vasa is trying, putting in some effort, but he\u2019s still in pain. We\u2019ll see \u2014 in the next few days we\u2019ll slowly have to make decisions, but for the most part the other players are fine,\u201d Pe\u0161i\u0107 said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/kss.rs\/pesic-da-iskoristimo-utakmice-za-napredovanje-brine-me-micic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KSS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he\u2019s not sure whether je\u2019ll be able to count on Mici\u0107 at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll keep practicing, keep working. Of course, these injuries are a concern. I have to be completely honest: what worries me most is whether we\u2019ll be able to count on Mici\u0107 at all. He\u2019s trying, and we\u2019re trying to get him back, but it\u2019s a slow process,\u201d Pe\u0161i\u0107 added before another preparation game, this time against the Czech Republic at the Munich tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Micic traveled with the squad, as he did in Cyprus, but didn\u2019t play in the games against Greece or the hosts in Limassol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Eurohoops team \/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net The Serbian national team is considered among the top favourites to win gold at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-71191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}