Our first team officially returned to training after the winter holidays. After medical tests conducted in the past days, new Head Coach Dejan Stanković met with the players for the first time at Rajko Mitić Stadium.
Along with Stanković and the players, new staff members also got their first taste of life with the red and whites. Now our coaching team consists of Miloš Milojević, Nebojša Milošević, Nenad Milijaš, Nemanja Milinčić, GK coach Dušan Gašić, as well as fitness coaches Federico Pannoncini, Ivan Vučetić, Nikola Todorić and Marko Vasiljević.
Around a thousand club members took their chance of watching the team's first training session of 2020 and welcomed the legendary Dejan Stanković back to the club.
The team will fly to Cyprus tomorrow for the 10-days training camp before returning to Belgrade. Three days later, second phase of preparations will begin in Antalya, Turkey, with a number of friendlies already arranged.
These are the 30 players who reported for training today: Milan Borjan, Zoran Popović, Aleksandar Stanković, Nikola Vasiljević, Milan Gajić, Marko Gobeljić, Miloš Degenek, Nemanja Milunović, Radovan Pankov, Srđan Babić, Strahinja Eraković, Milan Rodić, Jander, Jose Canas, Miloš Vulić, Branko Jovičić, Njegoš Petrović, Dušan Jovančić, Veljko Nikolić, Mirko Ivanić, Željko Gavrić, El Fardou Ben, Aleksa Vukanović, Rajiv Van La Parra, Mateo Garcija, Veljko Simić, Milan Pavkov, Richmond Boakye, Tomane and Nikola Krstović.