{"id":133584,"date":"2026-05-10T10:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/captain-reacts\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T10:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:03:36","slug":"captain-reacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/captain-reacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain reacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last Eternal Derby of the season was abandoned early due to crowd trouble caused by Maribor supporters. Despite numerous warnings during two stoppages, the situation did not calm down, so the referee brought the match to an end. <\/p>\n<p>Dragons captain Matev\u017e Vidov\u0161ek: \u201cWhat was happening already in the first half continued in the second. Maribor fans started firing Roman candles at me, and one of them went off right next to my ear, which started ringing and pounding. We understand everything. Flares and the fan atmosphere, all great \u2013 but targeting players, me, Risti\u0107, Gorenc, I think that\u2019s completely inappropriate. Our health is at risk too; if it had hit me in the eye, I could have gone blind! I don\u2019t think that\u2019s right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve said several times that it\u2019s bad for the Slovenian league that Maribor, together with us, are so low down. Maybe we need to look in the mirror and see that this is our reality and that we\u2019re no longer at the forefront. We have to do everything so that both we and they change something next season. We know we have to be higher up, fight for Europe, and I think that\u2019s how it should be.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything has been and will be down to us. So many times this season it was on us \u2013 when we could have won and closed the gap to Celje, we drew with Mura. Then we could have got close again, but we lost to Bravo. It was always on us, but we didn\u2019t take that step. Next season starts from zero again. We know Olimpija must be first \u2013 champions, Europe \u2013 and we keep building.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last Eternal Derby of the season was abandoned early due to crowd trouble caused by Maribor supporters. Despite numerous warnings during two stoppages, the situation did not calm down, so the referee brought the match to an end. Dragons captain Matev\u017e Vidov\u0161ek: \u201cWhat was happening already in the first half continued in the second. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":133583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[882],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-https-nkolimpija-si-en-news-first-team-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}