Blagojevic bows out at Obrenovac

FK Radnicki Obrenovac's Cvijetin Blagojevic has become the fourth Prva Savezna Liga coach to be dismissed in the space of a week.

First season
Following the dismissals of FK Sutjeska's Branko Smiljanic, FK Rudar Pljevlja's Goran Milojevic and FK Jovan Ivanjica's Slavko Vojcic, Blagojevic has paid the price for Obrenovac slipping towards the relegation zone in their first season in the Serbo-Montenegrin top flight.

'I will go'
"I don't know what the problem was," said the coach. "We trained as we usually do and worked in the same way but after today's training session [the board] told me their decision. I will go - that is the reality - but I don't understand why. The coach has to go when the results go badly - those are the rules."

Perilous position
With six teams being relegated from the Prva Savezna Liga this season, Obrenovac are seventh from bottom of the table with 24 points from 21 league games. Blagojevic is the second coach to have lost his job at the club this season, with Bosko Djurovski having been dismissed after four games of the season.

League survival
The club drew 0-0 at home against OFK Beograd in their last league game, and have promised to announce a new coach in the next few days as they battle for league survival and a place in the downsized top flight next season.