Pero Veočić: They didn’t give my son even a dollar after the European gold

Talented Croatian boxerč Gabrijel Veoči&cacute (23) won gold at the European Championship in Belgrade last year and thus achieved the greatest success in his career. On his way to the European throne, he knocked down five opponents, and for his great success he should have been awarded 15,000 euros.

However, Gabriel’s father But I Seeči&cacute he revealed that the Croatian Olympian, who lost in Paris in the quarterfinals of the tournament to Christian Pinales, has not yet received a single cent of the promised money!

– My son was presented with a mock-up check in the amount of 15 thousand dollars on the podium, nine months have passed since the championship, but he still hasn’t received a single dollar. Isn’t that unfair, is that okay, I ask you guys? The European Boxing Federation (EUBC) is shifting the blame to the World Boxing Organization (IBA), they are doing the opposite and so in a circle – announced Pero Veočić on the social network Facebook.

Gabriel Veočić eliminated in the čquarterfinals of the Olympic Games in Paris |

Photo: Igor Kralj/PIXSELL

Veilčić announced in his announcement that the situation in the world of boxing will become even worse.

– With the transition to the new World Boxing federation, things will be even less clear. Politics, money, interests, in the end they all make money somehow, except for boxing, which deserved it the most. Three training sessions a day, kilometers of running, weight lifting, boxing training, sparring, then injuries, rehabilitation, there’s nothing the boys don’t go through… In the end, they ‘reach’ their dream, reach the top of Europe or the world and don’t get what was promised to them. It’s a shame, the little man always gets hurt – concluded the coach of the Croatian boxing team.