Marcos
Milinkovic
The second Argentine player is the maximum point scorer Marcos Milinkovic.
Milinkovic
is the one of few players that has visited Japan since 1995 (my first encounter
with Argentine national team).
However, I really don't know much about him because I have
communicated most of time with only Quaini.
Moreover, Milinkovic didn't appear much in front of fans besides at the venue
so that I couldn't communicate with him so often.
I thought Milinkovic could be a difficult person to get along.
Things started to change when I visited Argentine to see the final round of
World League in 1999.
At the World Championship in 1998, I took an excellent photo of
Milinkovic.
I made the enlarged print and gave it to him in Argentine. Then he started to be very friendly to me.
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Milinkovic is the most popular player in Argentine without doubt.
So many fans (mainly teenagers) called his name in the arena at the
World League final round in Mar del Plata.
Marcos became a captain since Pam American Games in July 1999.
Even though Weber, who was a captain until 1998 World Championships,
came back to the national team, Milinkovic is still the captain.
At the beginning Milinkovic sometimes didn’t act like the captain,
but now everyone can admit him as a leader of the team.
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Milinkovic used to play in Olympics in Brazil until 1998/99 season.
In 1999/2000 season Milinkovic played for Sisley Treviso (Serie A1) in Italy.
As you know there are many world-widely known players in Sisley Treviso such as
Lorenzo Bernardi,
Samuel Papi, Nikola Grvic, Dmitry Frmin, and so on.
I went to see Sisley Treviso’s games in February 2000.
Milinkovic played as a center player in Sisley Treviso.
Milinkovic can play as an opposite player as well as a center
player; he is quite flexible.
Moreover, he has got well-built body.
I hope he plays at his best in the national team and the club team.