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We have to improve if we want an Olympic medal: Kolakovic
Coach of Serbia Igor Kolakovic and coach of Venezuela Garcia Roberto meet at their last press conference of the tournament
Serbia coach Igor Kolakovic: I want to say thank you to our friends from the Venezuela team. Today, I was satisfied as our young players respected the Venezuela team. We played with good concentration and good shape. It was important to finish with this victory and now we have a new opportunity in the World League.
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(Re. Getting a medal at the Olympic Games): It will be a difficult task because in the Olympics we will play against the best teams in the world. We have to improve our game a lot if we want to reach the medals.
Serbia captain Bojan Janic: I’m happy about this victory because we won all our games in this tournament and dropped only one set. We were very strong and also played today with guys who didn’t play so much before. For me, it was one of the best tournaments with the national team and I hope we continue like this in the Olympic Games.
(Re. Olympic Games): We’ve just finished this tournament so now we will celebrate and be happy about the fact that we will play there. The most important thing is for everybody to be healthy and go there 100 per cent ready physically and mentally. If that’s the case, we have a good chance to get to the quarterfinals, which is our goal. But I think we can beat anybody if we play our best, so I think we can go and try to win some medal.
Venezuela captain Kervin Pinerua: I think today’s match was our best performance in this tournament. We are here to get experience, so in that sense I am happy with the results and our performances. In the future, we want to be a strong and powerful team. Our target is to get to the 2016 Olympics, so until them we will continue to build up our team.
Venezuela coach Roberto Garcia: Congratulations to the Serbia team for reaching the Olympics and good luck there. Today, I told my players that our opponents were strong so we did a good analysis to combat them. I’m satisfied with today’s result. Today, in the first and second sets we lost concentration, but in the third set we bounced back and became more confident. In the future, our target will be to get to the 2016 Olympic Games.
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