Slovenian federation president: “We were close to Itudi and Pascual before Sekulic”

A… news came to light Matei Ergiavets!

The president of the Slovenian federation in a press conference he gave referred to the issue of the coach of the national team, stressing that before the agreement was made with Sekulich there were negotiations with them Xavi Pascual and Dimitris Itoudis.

Beyond that, the Slovenian referred to Igor Kokoskovemphasizing that there is a goal to be on the team’s technical team for the upcoming Mundobasketball.

What Ergiavets said in detail:

For Kokoskov: “Yes the suspicions are correct, but they have been wrongly communicated to the public. Everyone believed that he should become a coach. We cannot do that because we need a coach who can also coach in the qualifiers for the next EuroBasket, in the games that will take place in November and February. An NBA coach can’t do that. We want Igor with us at the World Cup, to go with the best possible composition. If we could find a mutually satisfactory solution, we would definitely like to renew our cooperation.”

On the fact that Sekulic stayed in the position of coach despite the failure in Eurobasket: “It wasn’t even an issue. Three years ago we agreed that we would go to the 2023 World Cup together if we qualified. Before Sekulic, we had discussions with Itoudis and Pascual and we were close to an agreement. We had said to sign a foreign coach, but in the end we hired Sekulic, who was not very well known then, now things are completely different. We discussed what didn’t work in EuroBasket and we don’t want to repeat the same mistakes.”