Serbian junior national team suffered a defeat by selection Greece 20:23 (6:11) at the start of the qualifying tournament in Gornji Milanovac for the World Championship in Algeria.
Nikola Markovic, Serbian coach junior:
– What we feared, happened. We opened the game badly, entered the jitters, no one was at the level we expected. The Greeks took the lead 5: 1, the entire first half, except Milosavljevi the box, we had no players at the required level. We knew that the Greeks are good, and I can say that serious result of the fact that we beat them in qualifying in Georgia. And 14th place at the European Championships last year, the success of our handball. Those who think differently, I do not know enough about the European handball. Lithuania will be the same tough rival. We have nothing to add and subtract. This is a consequence of this league and experience. This match we could not get out after a bad start. We chased a result, in the 50th minute for pending attack, but because of lack of seriousness, because of technical errors, we experienced a defeat that puts us in a difficult situation.
