The incident in Stari Jankovci has once again shed light on the difficult everyday life of Serbian sports collectives in Croatia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The football club Sin\u0111eli\u0107 from Trpinja, which for decades has preserved the tradition and identity of the Serbian community in the Vukovar area, experienced shameful provocations during an away match that was supposed to be an ordinary lower-league encounter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As soon as the players and coaching staff of Sin\u0111eli\u0107 stepped onto the home team\u2019s stadium, a song by the controversial Croatian singer Marko Perkovi\u0107 Thompson \u2013 “Anica Kninska Kraljica” \u2013 was played over the loudspeakers. It is a song whose lyrics contain open threats and war-inciting rhetoric directed against the Serbian people:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Controversial lyrics: “Because of Anica and a jug of wine, I will set Krajina on fire up to Knin” and “I will burn two or three Serbian headquarters, so that I did not come in vain”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the match, the club from Trpinja released a video as confirmation of these claims, in which the mentioned music can clearly be heard in the background while the players are preparing for the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite the charged atmosphere and insults from the loudspeakers, Sin\u0111eli\u0107\u2019s players did not give in. The match ended goalless (0:0), with the visitors showing sporting defiance and character in a far from friendly environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n