Former Madrid man Pedja Mijatovic urges Serbia to be brave against Spain

Pedja Mijatovic, former Real Madrid striker and manager, on Wednesday urged the Serbian national team to show “courage, ambition and unity” in Belgrade against Spain in the Nations League match.
Speaking to the website of the Football Federation of Serbia (FSS), Mijatovic said he will be in the stands to “transmit together with the fans positive energy that will certainly be of great importance in the duel against the European champion and one of the best teams in the world.”
“As a player, what I liked most was to play against the best. In those matches the motivation is at the highest level and it rarely happens that you fail. Facing an opponent of such quality as Spain is very difficult and complicated, but not impossible,” he said.
He assured that if each player of the coach, Dragan Stojkovic, “shows courage, ambition and unity, puts himself at the service of the team, everything is possible”.
The former player of other great clubs, such as Valencia or Fiorentina, considered that Serbia could not have obtained a better opponent at the beginning of a cycle of creation of the game and the team before the qualifying phase for the 2026 World Cup.
The duel against Spain will be a first test for Stojkovic after the debacle suffered at the last European Championship in Germany, where he failed to make it out of the group stage and disappointed the high expectations of the fans. Serbia and Spain share a Nations League group with Denmark and Switzerland.