With today's training session ends the first part of the planned preparations for our national "A" team in Sarajevo. The qualifying match with Estonia will be played on Tuesday in Zenica, therefore the team will move to the FFBIH training center there to complete their training.

Assistant coach Stephane Gilli explains how the first stage went: "It's good that we have eight days to get ready for the game, usually we didn't have much time to prepare, but now it's different. All players have come on time and are ready since it's the beginning of the new season. They work hard and the mood is great.

It won't be easy with Estonia. We can see throughout Europe that there are no easy teams, with the exception of maybe one or two such as Gibraltar, but we have to be focused one hundred percent and ready to give our maximum. We can't start the game thinking it'll be easy, we know that every game is very important, especially at the beginning. We're not pressuring the players, but they know that we should win and that's all there is to it. It doesn't matter what the result will be, we don't care if it's 1-0, we only know it'll be difficult.

We're about to begin the new qualifiers for the World Cup. I'm sure that everyone will support the national team because we're competing to go to Russia and I believe that the stadiums will be full once again. It's always a good atmosphere in Zenica coupled with great fans, and in that environment we have to beat Estonia."

There are several new players in the team who fit in really well: "We're satisfied with their work and efforts. I think it was easy for them to fit in. I spoke with Milicevic and others, because this group is very friendly and willing to accept newcomers. The atmosphere is good, they all came prepared in order to help the team, and sometimes it seems like they were together for ten years. When you play for the national team, you have consider youself happy and constantly prove that you're good enough to stay."