The match between the Romanian national team and the so-called state of Kosovo was interrupted in Bucharest during stoppage time when the visiting players left the field due to chants from the home fans.
Romanian fans chanted “Serbia, Serbia” and “Kosovo is Serbia,” which the visiting players characterized as racism.
Although parts of the stands were later emptied, they refused to return to the field and continue the match, and it seems that this was a premeditated plan because they had ordered pizza in the meantime and left the locker room in a mess.
However, they did not stop there, and after the scandal at the press conference, they continued in the same style, where the prime minister of the so-called state, Albin Kurti, joined in, praising the players for their decision not to return to the field.
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This angered the Romanian Prime Minister, Marcel Ciolacu.
“It is totally unacceptable what the Kosovar Prime Minister is doing, mixing politics with sports and claiming, after his national football team’s move to abandon the match against Romania, that he will exert political and diplomatic pressure to punish us. His Excellency is trying in vain to present the culprit as a victim and – what’s worse – wants to exert political pressure on the European football body, hoping for an illusory decision! I tell him directly and clearly that, no matter how hard he tries, he cannot distort reality and that he is on the wrong path because politics has no place in sports. As for what happened on Friday evening, there is only one truth: the culprits are clear and they are not the Romanian players or the audience at the National Arena.”
The Football Association of the so-called Kosovo announced an appeal to UEFA regarding this incident. They reported the incident to the delegate, who immediately began preparing the appeal.
In their initial statement on Saturday, they used the word racism as many as nine times to describe the events at the match.
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Source: Nova.rs, Photo: Profimedia