They were announcing Dinamo’s fight for the very top of the Super League of Serbia, which could be expected with regard to solid parties in the SEHA Gazprom league, however, Pancevci did not show their best player in the playoffs that finished in fifth place. The ambitions in the coming season will be reduced, the impression is that Vojvodina and Nis’s Zeleznicar are in the foreground, but the „Dinamo always goes to victory“ remains with regard to the coach Ivan Petkovic, who in the 2016/17 season made a great success with the club by winning the second places.
We are starting today (August 1st), and we hope that we will soon find out when our league starts. Our ambitions are to take on the play. We’ll play every game on the win. This is going to be a very interesting season. Novi Pazar is very ambitious, Mokra Gora has changed the coach, Kikinda as a newcomer as well. There are Metaloplastics and Partizan. Seven-eight teams will fight for the four places leading to the play-off, without Voše and the Railwayman who will play SEHA. Both of them, and others have made good compositions and are the main favorites for the title.
What are the reasons for the weaker plea in which you have left Europe and the SEHA Gazprom League?
I enjoyed a break between the SEHA games and the start of the play. We did not play one match in that month and we got out of the rhythm. We had a large number of injuries throughout the season, constantly five to six injured, and the rhythm of the play-off on Wednesday-Saturday is a scourge. We had ten bad days and that was enough to get out of the race. The defeat from Partizan in Pancevo was judged, we fell home, the two points were falile. The main reason is the large number of injured players. I did not manage to fit all the players since they were injured during SEHA, and I did not even see any of them. So it turned out that I played a team through the play-off.
Dynamo took its place in the upper house of the Serbian handball …
We did not create euphoria or as viceroys; we will not make a great tragedy or a fifth. We analyzed what happened last season. We get more calm, we go to the game for the match. After last year’s season, it was realistic that we remained in the fight for the title until the last round, but we are going further. Life goes on. Dynamo is a stable club, it shows in the past eight to nine years. I am an optimist before the new season. The goal is a place in the play-off, and the desire to return to the top – Petković is clear
