Pero Antic leaves national team - offended by fans reactions?

The captain of the Macedonian national basketball team (4th place last year on the European basketball championship), Pero Antic, is leaving the team. Daily newspaper Fokus says that Antic is offended by the writings of some Macedonian newspapers and the reactions of Macedonian fans on the social networks, so he announced his retirement from the Macedonian national team.

He was a target for many critics when he said that he comes from FYROM in a video message right before the quarter finals match in the Euroleague in which he won with his team Olympiakos (Greece). That was not received very well in the Macedonian public. Right after the final match Antic took a photo of himself and his Greek co-player Vassilis Spanoulis holding a Macedonian flag together. Also another video was published in which Pero Antic says that he was forced to say FYROM. If this information is true the Macedonian national basketball team will have a lot of trouble on its way to the Olympic qualifications in Venezuela.