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14. Good that they were at least fined for their unsportsmanlike behavior.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 04:19 PM
Jun 2018

Any political beef with Serbia should be pursued off the field. If they want to wear the Albanian flag, they should play for Albania. That is indeed provocative to Serb fans and players. And it obviously did indeed provoke them into equally unsportsmanlike behavior, for which the Serb team was also fined.

There is a reason political displays should be kept off the field.

Both Serbia and the Kosovo Albanians have a recent history of crimes against humanity arising from the secession of Kosovo from Serbia. The soccer field is not the place to adjudicate that.

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