Kolaković and Sturm
Their head coach Frbed Sturm, who has been with the team for the past 10 years, even said that this success exceeded the joy he experienced back in 1992 as he was coaching USA and his guys won bronze at the Barcelona Olympics. And only 24 hours after the victory claimed by Kristian Knudsen & Co., 600 additional tickets were sold in Aarhus for the much anticipated showdown with Serbia coming up on Tuesday evening (8 pm local time) at NRGi Arena.
“The first thing that comes to my mind is that this will be a big experience for the guys. After that I hope that we can continue with the good things that happened to us during the first three matches. We have had a good preparation, which resulted in some good efforts. I hope that after the game tomorrow we can say that we had our best performance of the tournament” says Danish coach Fred Sturm. “Serbia is a highly respected and top ranked team in Europe and has been there for many years. They are the defending European champions and we have deep respect for them. I hope that the fans will come and support the team”.
Igor Kolaković, head coach of Serbia, said on the eve of their game with the hosts:
“We have watched Denmark’s games. We know they are not one of Europe’s best teams, but we respect them and they play with great motivation. I hope our form is good, but we have a lot of young guys on the team and also pressure from being the European champions. I think the hall will be full because we play in Denmark and the beginning of the game will be very difficult because Denmark will be very motivated as they play against the reigning European champions. It is not easy for us but we hope the joy will be on our side in the end”.
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