Spain
“It was a very good game for us, but I am sure that we can play much better,” Spanish captain Guillermo Hernan Ruperez commented on the match. ”Now it is time to start thinking about tomorrow. We will try to do our best against Serbia and qualify for the final round.”
“Our team played its worst game in the last two and a half seasons,” a disappointed Veselin Vukovic, head coach of Slovenia, said. ”Spain deserved the win, but we helped them a lot with our low spirit, lack of concentration and poor performance in all elements.”
His Spanish counterpart Fernando Munoz Benitez was in the opposite mood: “It was important for us to start the tournament with a win, so I am very happy with the result. Our young team was paying attention to the game and made good technical decisions. I hope we can improve our performance in the side-out phase and be better against Serbia tomorrow.”
