Vladica Petrovic logged on to his personal account to find out that he had lost his job, and subsequently posted a comment, which has received over 200 likes on the social network

Most people check Facebook to see what their friends are up to, and whether they’ve missed their mum’s birthday. Drina Zvornik coach Vladica Petrovic, however, logged on to find out that he had been sacked!

The club, bottom of the Bosnian Premier League with just two wins from 10 matches, posted a message on their official account, revealing that the trainer had been relieved of his duties.

Petrovic replied to the post, writing “thanks for the notice”, and his post received over 270 likes.

Petrovic has now expressed his surprise at the way in which the story has been received across the globe, in an exclusive interview with Goal.

“I never expected to be so popular this way. Yes, they really sacked me via Facebook! That was the way I found out about it,” he said.

“FC Drina are among my Facebook friends and as I logged in to check what was up, I saw their post. I posted a “thank you for announcing me” comment, more as a joke, waiting to see what will happen, but I never thought my comment would gather so many likes!”

“What is next, will clubs buy players via Facebook, appoint and fire coaches… who knows?

“I would rather have the media writing about me because of my successes, but at least, thank to this unexpected popularity, I’ve heard from some of my friends, people I lost contact with a long time ago. They contacted me from all over the world!”