“My players enter the field with the mentality of 5-year-olds! Embarrassing, I can't assume”

Ashley Davis19/05/2025

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Article by Adrian Jitea – published Monday, May 19, 2025, 12:34 / Updated Monday, May 19, 2025 12:34

Nebojsa Vidic, the coach of the FC Argeș basketball team, cataloged as “embarrassing” the performance of his students from the first match of the series with CS Rapid, lost 61-64.

FC Argeș Pitești (yes, this is officially called the basketball team) ranked 6th in the regular season of the first men's basketball league. He lost the quarter with Vâlcea, score 0-3, and entered the play-off for 5-8 positions.

The first match against Rapid was ceded against an offensive performance below expectations, score 61-64. Pitestii only managed 5 3 -point baskets out of 24 attempts, and the Serbian coach Nebojsa Vidic (52 years old) broke out.

Nebojsa Vidic: “It is for the first time I will speak in another way”

“In all my career as a coach, especially during this season, I watched the matches and assumed the responsibility of the defeats. I cannot do this after the first match with Rapid. It was embarrassing.

It is for the first time I will speak in another way, in a statement. And not only since I am a coach of Pitesti. If my experienced players enter the field with a mentality like 5 -year -olds, if my shooters miss 5 times in a row, if we hit some mysterious injuries …

When you can go on your feet and make a defense, but give up on it, even in important games, I don't know what conclusions I could shoot. When you throw 20% at three -point throwing, and 30% of your points come from the counterattack, I say badly, I can't assume that.

All my life and I sent this to my children, I went on the road with truth and professionalism. If we are not honest and we do not offer everything on the ground to those who pay us and do this and to follow us or we do not have the quality to represent Argeș, I'm sorry, we do not deserve this money. I sent this to the players in the locker room.

I'll fight. I will not give up and hope to have associated for it. We will see in Bucharest. We had high expectations and it is difficult to get back, but we have to show responsibility to get the 5th place and to keep this team in the European Cups ”, Nebojsa Vidic said.