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Football fans are shocked to see a former Manchester United star in the coaching ranks for Serbia against England tonight.
Viewers did a double take when they saw Quinton Fortune, who played for United between 1999 and 2006, take his place as an assistant coach in the World Cup qualifier.
Fortune, 48, was only appointed by Serbia last week as an assistant to Veljko Paunovic.
The former South African star has previously been a coach in England’s youth set-up and has been an assistant for various clubs including Reading.
Speaking to ITV Sport, he said: ‘(A couple of weeks ago) I was at home, taking care of my kids but kind of knew this was in the background.
The opportunity came and it’s an honor to be here, to be part of this team, and help Pauno (he has been an assistant to Paunovic at Reading, Guadalajara, and Tigres UANL) . Now we’re at Wembley!
It’s strange. We look at the quality of the players and find ourselves in this position! We can’t go on the low. We’re here today and have a great opportunity.
It means a lot to the country. We’ve been over there for a couple of days and seen how much it means to them. Veljko told us how important it is for Serbia to qualify for the World Cup and tonight we have another opportunity.’
More to follow.
