Tag: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia scheduled a friendly vs. Russia and its two biggest stars are not happy

Edin Džeko and Miralem Pjanić were not pleased their federation scheduled a match in St. Petersburg

Edin Džeko and Miralem Pjanić have both voiced their disapproval after Bosnia and Herzegovina scheduled a friendly against Russia.

Bosnia and Herzegovina announced this week that it will travel to St. Petersburg for a match on November 19, one day before World Cup 2022 kicks off.

Russia won’t be at the World Cup after the country was disqualified from this spring’s playoff round as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine.

Džeko, the country’s captain, sounds like he may boycott the trip to Russia entirely, telling Bosnian news website Klix: “I am against the playing of this match; I am always and only for peace.

“I have my position which is clear and which does not include playing this match, while innocent people are suffering. I stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine in these difficult times for them.”

Pjanić sounded a similar note, telling Bosnian media: “The decision is not good. I am speechless. In the national FA, they know what I think.”

Russia played its most recent match in November 2021 and is still banned from FIFA and UEFA competition. Russia will, however, end its run without any games this month when it faces Kyrgyzstan in a friendly on September 24, with a friendly against Iran in November also on the schedule.

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This Bosnian player got dunked on because he stared down Domantas Sabonis after blocking his dunk

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Eurobasket has been filled with some pretty ridiculous moments so far. For example, Luka Doncic hitting a ridiculous one-handed floater 20 feet away from the basket over Rudy Gobert makes no sense. There’s also Giannis Antetkounmpo’s block of a 3-pointer while somehow being under the rim.

Just completely ridiculous stuff. But as wild as that was, I’m not sure it’s wilder than what happened to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Miralem Halilovic on Wednesday when he found himself getting dunked on…after he stopped himself from getting dunked on.

Yes, you read that correctly.

So here’s how it happened. Domantas Sabonis tried to dunk on him first and he successfully blocked the dunk attempt. He then proceeded to stare Sabonis down.

What followed was this.

WATCH YA HEAD, BUDDY.

They tell you to keep your head on a swivel when you’re playing basketball and Halilovic found out why the hard way. Then he got screamed on by Sabonis immediately after.

He’ll know better next time, I’m sure.

“We made our first basketball steps …

“We made our first basketball steps thanks to Kobe Bryant, so we decided to pay our respects to him in this way and emphasize the impact he left on the sport”, a group of guys from Gradiška who worked hard on painting the mural for the past ten days. The mural is the largest in Europe in terms of its dimensions. – Kobe Bryant was one of my role models and when we heard that he tragically lost his life, we came up with the idea to pay tribute to him. That is how we made a mural on the wall of the school next to which we spent time on the playground – said one of the initiators of the action, Igor Damjanović.

That’s Dzanan Musa. The youngest player …

That’s Dzanan Musa. The youngest player on the Nets’ roster is 13 hours away from his native country of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Well, 13 hours away if he could fly home, which he clearly can’t with COVID-19 running rampant. He, along with fellow European players Rodions Kurucs and Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot, are stuck stateside for the foreseeable future. “I had a conversation with the three of those guys [Tuesday] night together. They are coping, and their families are coping with this. But that’s really difficult,” Nets general manager Sean Marks said. “Their families are completely separated. They’re not in the same time zone, they’re in completely different countries, and obviously there is a travel ban in place. So, these guys cannot go home.