The former “White” coach leads Greece to a historic victory over England

The former coach of the national football team, Serbian Ivan Jovanovic, topped international newspapers by leading the Greek national team to achieve a historic 2-1 victory over its English host at Wembley Stadium in the English capital, London, in the third round of the European Nations League, noting that the coach had coached Greece in Last August, he played 3 matches, all of which he won, putting him at the top of his group standings with 9 points.

The rise of Serbian coach Jovanovic’s star coincides with the 1-1 draw with the taste of loss that ended in the “White” match against its North Korean guest on Thursday evening, at Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium in the third round of the Asian qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup finals.

Jovanovic had assumed the duties of coaching the national team in late December 2019 with a six-month contract, in order to lead the national team in its remaining matches in the joint qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup finals and the 2023 Asian Cup finals, which were scheduled to be held in March and June 2020 before he took over. The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) postponed it until a later time due to the health conditions the world was going through with the spread of the Corona virus.

Suddenly, on April 6, 2020, the Football Association decided to terminate the contract of Serbian coach Ivan Jovanovic, without revealing the reason for his dismissal. In a press statement, it was sufficient to confirm that the decision to terminate the coach’s contract came based on the recommendation of the National Teams and Technical Affairs Committee of the Football Association, headed by Youssef Hussein Al-Sahlawi, MP. The second is for the president of the union.