Dusan Petkovic was one of the eight arrested.
Dusan Petkovic had a long playing career. Photo from 2020. PDO
Serbian ex-footballer Dusan Petkovic was arrested in Amsterdam in a major police operation by the authorities.
According to the Espresso website the authorities arrested eight people in the attack at the main airport in the Netherlands. They are suspected of trying to smuggle as much as 115 kilos of cocaine into Europe.
The professional career of Dusan Petkovic, 48, lasted from 1992 to 2007. In addition to his home country, Toppari also played in Wolfsburg in Germany and Spartak Moscow in Russia.
He represented the youth national team of Yugoslavia until the breakup of the country. He later represented the then Serbia and Montenegro in seven international matches.
Petkovic got into an uproar before the 2006 World Cup when the father who coached the national team Ilja Petkovic he was selected for the team by a star player Mirko Vucinic in exchange for.
Dusan Petkovic gave up his place in the World Cup after a huge media frenzy, but Fifa no longer gave the team the opportunity to make changes to the published lineup. So the national team played the World Cup 2006 with a roster of only 22 players.