Chelsea midfielder Nemanja Matic will quit international football
with Serbia if attitudes do not change within the national team.
Chelsea midfielder Nemanja Matic
has threatened to quit international duty with Serbia unless attitudes
change within the national team.
Matic was part of
a Serbia side comfortably beaten 4-1 by Czech Republic in Ostrava on
Friday, their seventh loss in the last 11 matches.
Serbia
failed to qualify for Euro 2016 - the third successive major tournament
they have missed - and Matic is deeply frustrated.
"I always try to lead by example but some people don't want to see that," he said.
"The
attitude of some players is unacceptable, not just on the pitch but off
it too and it was obvious from the moment we got together on Monday.
"I told our coach [Radovan Curcic] there is no point in me carrying on with the national team if things don't change.
"I'd
really like to know whether some of my team mates apply the same poor
working ethic at their clubs as they do in the national team most of the
time."
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