Tucak says goodbye to ‘barracuda’! ‘The Olympic Games in Los Angeles will be my last competition’

He put two world golds, silver and two bronzes, one Olympic silver, European gold and European silver in display cases. And now he revealed to Sport Klub that the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028 will also be his farewell tournament on the bench of the national team!

– I’m still as hungry as I was on the first day, I want to live until the last day of my mandate, and it will surely be at the end of Los Angeles, there’s no doubt about that, I don’t have the strength anymore and I can’t do it anymore. My health is also a bit worn out. You are more tired and some other things that are around. The hardest thing for me is when you don’t get a good result – said Tucak.

Our national team experienced failure in the last two competitions, so the coach decided to rejuvenate the national team. And with a new team, at his last competition, he tried to win a medal in Los Angeles.

– I always say that these are the most difficult decisions, but regardless of the result in Belgrade, which was not what we wanted, on the other hand, the thesis of failure somehow gets through. Now the question is always to realistically sit down and look at the situation, are we a national team that is destined to be champion and what are the arguments that we always have to be first, second or third. Of course, nobody is happy to lose and not win a medal, especially us – said Tucak and continued:

– To quote the late basketball coach Duško Vujoševi, who said that the one who invests a lot does not like to lose. And it’s not easy to lose, even when the tournament doesn’t go the way you want it to. In any case, we would make that turn because of the biological age of some players, because I think there was saturation after all the fantastic results we made in the last two, three years. It’s all human. Of course, I made a mistake because I let some things take their course, that something is taken for granted, in sports nothing is taken for granted. I let too many things go.