After the victory over the seventh-placed team of the Ukrainian Premier League, Olimpik from Donetsk, which is only three points away from Europe in the half-season, the “blues” will test again – the Ukrainians.
Today, at 5.30 pm (3.30 pm local time) in Antalya, our boys will play against Dnipro, on whose bench sits the Croatian coach of Montenegrin roots, Igor Jovićević.
The 47-year-old strategist is the son of the legend of Lovćen and our football, the late Čedomir Čedo Jovićević, he grew up in Zagreb, he was a great talent of Real Madrid, and after a serious injury and a solid playing career he entered coaching waters early – he led the Carpathians from Lviv , Celje, the second team of Dinamo from Zagreb, the youth of the “blues” with whom he played the quarterfinals of the Champions League twice, and for a short time he was the first coach of the Zagreb team.
Recently, he “strengthened” Dnipro – a respectable team (last year he won seventh place) which was cut by the crown in the first part of the season, and therefore is in last place in the Ukrainian championship.
However, Dnipro, which is planned for a high ranking at the beginning of the season, has only one point less than the safe zone, and with Jovicevic it will certainly fight for the middle of the table, while it will talk about Europe – which is 12 points away and which was the goal in some way. fantasize from the sidelines.
Dnieper 1 was created before the 2017/18 season. as a police club, he quickly placed in the elite in two seasons, playing in the semifinals of the Cup in those years, which speaks volumes about the ambitions of the newest Ukrainian club, which was created by renowned striker Roman Zozulja, a member of the Ukrainian national team wearing the Spanish Albacete jersey.