Soccer star Stojkovic picked as Balkan confab goodwill envoy

Soccer star Stojkovic picked as Balkan confab goodwill envoy

TOKYO, Japan - Japan on March 17 named soccer star Dragan Stojkovic (R), who is now head of the Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro, as a goodwill ambassador to a two-day international conference next month in Tokyo aimed at promoting peace and economic development in the western Balkans. Senior Vice Foreign Minister Ichiro Aisawa (L) gave a letter of commission at the Foreign Ministry to Stojkovic, who had a successful career in Japan playing for Nagoya Grampus Eight in the J-League.

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