Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić was “extremely angry” that his country’s men’s football team traveled to the European Championship in Germany on a Croatian plane.
That’s according to Ana Brnabić, a former Serbian prime minister and current president of its parliament, who discussed the controversy during an appearance on Happy TV-u.
“We have our Air Serbia and we all travel with that company. When the plane lands, to see Air Serbia, that’s our pride,” she said, per index.hr, adding of the decision to use a Croatian flight: “It is absolutely necessary to determine how it happened and who is responsible.”
She said the contretemps hadn’t been revealed earlier because it could have distracted the public from supporting the national team.
Regardless of how it arrived, the Serbian team will be flying home early from Germany after failing to win any of its three group games and scoring only one goal at Euro 2024.
