SINGAPORE – The Lion City Sailors’ new head coach Risto Vidakovic will start the 2023 Singapore Premier League (SPL) season with a much-changed squad that is missing two of his four foreign players, while the league has also become more competitive with the return of 2019 champions Brunei DPMM.
Despite these difficulties, the 54-year-old Serb remains unfazed. After all, as a player, he once had to flee from a war and, as a coach, arrived to work at a club that had only one registered player.
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