Recently, the Serbian Football Association officially announced that former Guangzhou R&F coach Dragan Stojkovic will take up the position of coach of the Serbian national team. Although most coaches will regard being the coach of the national team of the motherland as an honor, Shuai Si also made a certain sacrifice in his choice to take office this time.
According to the Information Times, in order to coach the Serbian national team in his homeland, Stojkovic gave up the annual termination payment of up to 7.3 million euros (about 56.5 million yuan) in Guangzhou City (formerly R&F). Originally, the contract between Shuai and R&F expired at the end of 2021, but the two sides announced the termination of the cooperation in early January 2020, according to the contract, Guangzhou R&F will pay Stojkovic an annual termination fee of 7.3 million euros over the next two years. But if Shuai finds a new job, then Guangzhou R&F can stop paying the money. He is nearly a year away from the end of his contract with R&F, which also means that he will give up the 7.3 million liquidated damages for this year, while the salary of the Coach in the Serbian national team is about 1 million euros per year, which is far from coaching in China.
In the Chinese Super League Guangzhou R&F and Japan J League Nagoya Orca coaching, Stojkovic has shown a good coaching ability, his team has distinct characteristics, the attack is playing well, although in Guangzhou R&F limited by the strength of the team did not get the honor, but in the Nagoya period he led the team to win the J League championship in 2010, and also staged a wonderful half-court volley in the coaching bench in 2009, making people lament that the former Balkan Maradona sword is not old.
Although experienced in the Asian League, he has been coaching in Asia for 11 years, but this is only the first time in his coaching career that he has coached a European team. It is worth mentioning that the last coach of the Serbian national team is also an old acquaintance of the Chinese Super League, the former Shandong Luneng Meritorious Coach Tubakkovic. I believe that with Stojkovic's coaching experience and the prestige of his native Serbia, managing this star-studded national team should not be a big problem.