Romania-Kosovo football match interrupted for an hour because of "Srbija, Srbija" chants and banners

[dviz]

It's sitting on two chairs. Would you like your country split into Texas, California and other republics?

Why would individual US states split? This make no sense.

That said, at this point, I see little future for massive federative countries. They all slip inevitably towards dictatorship, which seems to be the only way to keep together the various cultures they contain, that are either historic or naturally emerge within. The current idea of massive federative states does not work - more flexible structures are needed.

[Victor]

Thanks for the tiny sympathy lol.

But you wouldn't be opposed to having the Serbian part of BosniaHerzegovina right?

Federation of BiH is an artifical Dayton state, without intervention of the West it could be separated by Serbs and Croats through the deals, without war. Anyway, Republika Srpska exists, it's a recognized entity of BiH, a result of Dayton, too, made by whole "civilized World", same World which created so called Kosovo republic.

[Dušan]

Thanks for the tiny sympathy lol.

But you wouldn't be opposed to having the Serbian part of BosniaHerzegovina right?

You are welcome.

Serbs of Bosnia-Herzegovina have their own autonomous Republic with whom they are satisfied and where they live freely, and they are indeed real supporters of Dayton peace agreement, that ended the war in Bosnia.

It is Bosnian Muslims who wants impossible - an unitary state under Muslim majority (in reality they are on some 48%), and that not gonna happen.
They could only provoke new war, and their own suffering.

But interesting demographic things as happening, since they are emigrating to West in much larger scale than Serbs, so they percentage will fall in next decades.

It will be interesting if Serbs surpasses Muslims, would Muslims still want unitary state.

[Dušan]

Federation of BiH is an artifical Dayton state, without intervention of the West it could be separated by Serbs and Croats through the deals, without war. Anyway, Republika Srpska exists, it's a recognized entity of BiH, a result of Dayton, too, made by whole "civilized World", same World which created so called Kosovo republic.

This was plan for Bosnia about month before starting the war - it would be federal state, with three teritorial uncountinous ethnic federal units.




Bosnian Serbs accepted, Bosnian Croats accepted, Bosnian Muslims refused wanting entire Bosnia only for themselves.

War broke out, thousands of people on all three sides died, and eventually Muslims now have even less territory than by proposed plan.

[cyrus]

The game was played on the territory of Romania, which happened to be one of the countries among many others, and the list growing, which does not recognize Kosovo as an independent state. Some Romanian fans displayed during the game two banners on the stadium tribune, "Bassarabia in Romania" and "Kosovo is Serbia". The French referee Willy Delajod stopped the game when the Kosoo players started complaining about it. In reality, the Kosovo team wanted to take a shortcut hoping for a quick 3-0 "victory" decided at UEFA's "green table" as a sanction against Romania. Oh well, it didn't happen, it ended with a 2-0 for Romania. P.S. (Later Edit), It looks like Romania beat Serbia 2-0...

[Nurzat]

[Zohor]

Sports = politics, one of its highest tiers on popular level.

sad true which should not be true

[Nurzat]

btw, in their home match against Romania earlier in the qualifiers, Kosovo fans were chanting throughout the match "tzi-ga-ni, tzi-ga-ni" so loud that it was audible in the tv broadcast as well (especially during the national anthem), if I'm not mistaken the Romanian commentators even made jokes on the fact. Romanian footballers and officials had no reaction - it sometimes happens, I remember a Bulgaria match where they chanted "tzi-ga-ni, tzi-ga-ni" the entire match and you could hear it clearly on tv, the loudest during the national anthem.

while in the away match at Bucharest the Kosovo team immediately reacted to "Kosovo je Srbija" banners, showing what snowflakes they are - they could have just ignore it, like Romanians ignored their racist chants previously.

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