Savicevic out of Yugoslav team for Euro 2000

Belgrade, May 10 - Dejan Savicevic, player of Austrian Rapid and one of the mainstays of the Yugoslav national team, will miss the Euro 2000 finals in June because of injury, Yugoslav Football Federation General Secretary Branko Bulatovic said in Wednesday.

Savicevic got injury during the Austrian football championship match between Rapid and Sturm.

"Savicevic informed us that he had a muscle injury and would be out of training for at least three weeks," Bulatovic said. "He told us that as things stood it would not be fair for him to take the place of a younger player in the finals," he added.

Playmaker Savicevic, who has 56 caps and scored 20 goals for the national team, has been plagued by injuries in the past two years and performed poorly in the World Cup finals in France in 1998.