While still playing in that youth tournament, he received his first call up to the senior national team, being included for the UEFA Euro 1992 squad. Yugoslav coaches had already called eighteen from the twenty allowed players, without Croats, keeping some Macedonians, two Slovenes and just one Bosniak alongside the Serbs and Montenegrins. It was expected that the later two players would be Miroslav Đukić and Dragiša Binić, but Petković and Slobodan Krčmarević were included instead, at 29 May, just two days after that 3–0 winning game against USA at the Toulon Tournament. He and Krčmarević then came immediately to Sweden, where their teammates were already preparing for the Euro. But Yugoslavia would be suspended at 31 May due to its civil wars, just ten days before the opening match.