Serbia FA threatens to quit Euros if UEFA does not punish Croats and Albanians over chants
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Belgrade: Serbia soccer officials threatened to quit the European Championship after they were offended by fan chants reportedly heard during the Alba...
Belgrade: Serbia soccer officials threatened to quit the European Championship after they were offended by fan chants reportedly heard during the Albania-Croatia match. The game on Wednesday ended 2-2 in Hamburg.
Serbia started its second group match against Slovenia on Thursday afternoon in Munich.
"We will ask UEFA for sanctions, even at the cost of not continuing the competition,” Serbia Football Association general secretary Jovan Surbatovic said. "We will request UEFA to punish the federations of both teams. We don’t want to participate in that, but if UEFA doesn’t punish them, we will think about how to proceed.”
UEFA was yet to react.
The animosity between Croatian and Albanian fans toward the Serbs, and vice versa, dates to the 1990s wars in the Balkans.
