Dusan Tadic rules out playing for Serbia while Radovan Curcic is manager

Southampton midfielder Dusan Tadic has stated that he will never play for Serbia while Radovan Curcic is coach after he was left out of the squad for the friendlies against Poland and Estonia.

‘I play in the world’s strongest league and then I find out in the newspapers that I am no longer good enough to play for the national team,’ the 27-year-old Tadic said of the English Premier League.

‘Someone could have at least called me and told me over the phone,’ the Southampton winger was quoted as saying by Belgrade’s Beta news agency on Monday.

‘This is humiliating and disrespectful, hence I will no longer play for Serbia while Curcic is in charge.’

Despite criticising Curcic and saying he didn’t think he was good enough, he still wished the team and Curcic the best.

‘I don’t think Curcic is up to the task,’ he said.

‘I’d like to be more positive but a coach who has not been in charge of a top team aiming for titles does not have the potential, the authority or the knowledge to lead a national team to victories…but I wish him and the team all the best.’