Football: BAHRAIN SET FOR SERBIA FRIENDLY – Gulf Digital News

Football: BAHRAIN SET FOR SERBIA FRIENDLY – Gulf Digital News

Football fans in Bahrain will get the chance to see some of the world’s top players in action when the national team take on Serbia tonight in a friendly game at the Muharraq Stadium.

The Serbian team arrived in the kingdom on Wednesday on an Air Serbia plane bearing the name of tennis great Novak Djokovic (the airline has named its aircraft after the country’s most famous personalities as part of its ‘Serbian Living Legends’ programme).

Head coach Dragan Stojkovic’s side will use the encounter to acclimatise to Middle Eastern conditions ahead of their first Fifa World Cup 2022 Group G match against Brazil next Tuesday.

Drawn in a tough group, with Switzerland and Cameroon also in the mix, Serbia will not risk playing three key players – Aleksandar Mitrovic, Filip Kostic and Sasa Lukic, all of whom are struggling with injuries – tonight, Stojkovic told reporters yesterday in a Press conference at Muharraq Stadium, ahead of the team’s training session.

Earlier, Stojkovic had prefaced his reply to the first question of the evening by expressing his gratitude to the Bahrain Football Association (BFA) and the Bahraini people for the warm, friendly welcome his squad had received.

And he said he had a healthy respect