The young Red Star striker, Milan Pavkov, is the new hero of the red and white fans after he was knocked down by the giant Liverpool, the current European wielder in Belgrade last night.

Few people know that the young niche in summer will almost end up in the most difficult Macedonian club Vardar for a one-year loan.

Pavkov passed a bumpy road from a "rustic footballer" and an anti-talent, with whom the majority of the star public laughed when he came to the club's club times for a sum of 300,000 euros from Radnicki. For now overnight to reach the stars and to be glorified as the greatest football legends of the former European champion.

Pavkov throughout his career was named as an unpromising, a player in an amateur club, finished in Radnicki, after which he came to Belgrade and for many there was "plywood" for many. No one believed in his potential and capacity, so he returned to Nis again, where he had flashed 23 goals last season.

Because Pavkov did not get a chance at Zvezda, Vardar tried to take a loan on a summer basis. Sports director Darko Pancev negotiated with Belgrader Zvjezdan Terzic and made some kind of pressure to get the center. But, although they thought, in C. The star eventually decided to keep it and give it a chance, which is now in the best possible way.

"Summer even before the championship ended, I watched the guy (Pavkov) while playing in Radnicki Nis. Through 'Arena' we can now follow all the championships from the former Yugoslavia and I liked it as a central. It was about an interesting striker, tall, with a good jump, who knows how to give a goal and who tries on the swords. And I began to pressure Terzic for Pavkov. I called him and told him, 'Terza, let's fly this summer in Vardar. We will receive it well, we will take good care of it, it will work, it can only be further developed. Let him play in Vardar, he will be struck by goals, and afterwards you will return him ", reveals Pancev for Sport1 about the idea that Pavkov should wear the red and black jersey.

In Belgrade, they thought about both, especially as C. The star after the European spring in the Europa League last season, started to make a team that will take a new step more, to play in the Champions League.

"Terzic was thinking, I thought, but if I was putting too much pressure on Pavkov, at one point he called me and told me:" See Darko, we give Pavkov a couple of years on loan, and we spent a solid amount of money (300,000 euros - н.з.) about him and we want to give him a serious chance this time. I find it deemed mature and deserves a chance. ' I tried to get it to the last minute, to take it to Vardar to play, but in the end I reconciled with the decision. At the end they also came out of Star to tell me that Pavkov would stay. They told me then: 'Do not understand, and we need a good spitz. One is planning to buy, and we will need another one and that's why we will leave it. If there was any other situation we would leave in Vardar, there would not be any problem ", adds Pancev.

Pavkov and this year did not get too much chance from the start of the season, played more in the championship, gave five goals so far, while in the European matches he was only once a starter to the match with Liverpool, and when it was most needed - flashed! And overnight became a hero of Belgraders.

"We knew how to recognize something in it, it really gave me a good impression. I believed that goals in Vardar could be scored. Now, I am glad that it turned out that the Star made such a decision, because now it is more and more game, and yesterday it made a great contribution to a really unseen victory against Liverpool. All of this will definitely raise its price and raise its confidence for the future. In a word, I am glad for the little one, because I know that it originated from a small environment, that I was struggling with much effort to come here. I am glad and what explodes, and I wish him even more goals and best career to do, "adds Panchev, who is a legend of the Belgrade club as a man who gave the decisive goal for the European title in the penalty spot in the final in KESH in Bari in 1991.