Heroes welcome in Belgrade for the medal winners

By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net

Serbia got in total 8 medals in Rio, 2 golds, 4 silver and 2 bronze and all the athletes who managed to get in the pontium got a heroes’ welcome tonight at Belgrade.

Thousends of fans gathered in order to salute them and of course among the winners was the men’s basketball team which got silver and the women’s basketball team which got bronze.

Coach Aleksandar Djordjevic had to wait a few minutes to calm down the applause when his team was presented and he said to the crowd: “Twenty years ago, I was in their shoes (ed.note: as a player Djordjevic won also silver in Atlanta 1996) and now I’m even happier because I have this team behind me”.

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