Slovakia great Hamsik hopes Euro 2024 games can bring unity after shooting of prime minister Fico
Associated PressMAINZ, Germany — Slovakia’s most storied player in modern soccer said Saturday he hopes European Championship games can unite the nation after the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Robert Fico. Marek Hamsik is an assistant coach now with Slovakia after playing the last of his record 138 national-team games one year ago. “These times are terrible for Slovakia,” Hamsik said in translated comments at the team training camp when asked about last month’s shooting that the populist Fico survived. In a video message published June 5, Fico suggested he was attacked because his views on Ukraine were outside the mainstream, and “the right to have a different opinion has ceased to exist in the European Union.” Slovakia plays Ukraine on Friday in Duesseldorf.
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