Lukic said the Serbian national basketball team has been banned from playing a friendly match with the Russian team in 2023.

Head coach of the Russian national basketball team Zoran Lukic in an interview with , he said that the Serbian team had been banned from playing a friendly match against the Russians in February 2023.

The Russian national team held two test matches with Serbian clubs Mega and FMP in February last year.

— In March, the Russian football team will play against the Serbs. Can we imagine this in basketball in the near future?

– Why not? Be patient and we can see a match like this. We wanted to play on our first trip to Serbia. I spoke with the coach of the Serbian national team, Svetislav Pesic, but you can probably guess why our match didn’t take place…

—Has a third appeared?

“Of course, they started putting pressure from above. Therefore, you have to wait for some time until the situation becomes more and more clear. I am more than sure that we will play a match against the Serbian national team. I can even talk to Pesic tomorrow, and he will agree to play next week, but there are some who will be against it. I also understand Serbia in this situation, it can be punished for this, why does it need this? – Lukich told .

The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has suspended Russian teams from participating in international tournaments in 2022.

Source : MatchTV

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