All the matches between Romania and Kosovo started from the score of 0-1 for us due to geopolitical reasons. Because the Romanian government decided not to recognize the independent existence of the state of Kosovo. And we always left here with the handicap of a collective hatred, especially since we also showed our sympathy for the Serbian brothers, the mortal enemies of the Kosovars. From here it was simple for everything that is Romanian to be hostile to the Kosovars.
We all knew that we would have a very difficult match in Bucharest against the Kosovo national team. Hard in every way. Football-wise, they have players of indisputable value, who play for good teams in top championships. Just football. Because in terms of behavior they are not even players of the fourth or fifth league of the laws of common sense.
And I knew this just as well from the three previous confrontations I had with them. In both cases, in Pristina, in their enclave, it is difficult to describe in decent words the way they behaved with our delegation and in the first game, that 0-0 in the EURO 2024 preliminaries, ask the Romanian fans who had the courage to enter the stadium what they suffered, being really lucky to have come out of hell unscathed. The second time they couldn’t make it because they had been penalized by UEFA for some imagined chants of a racist and xenophobic nature during the EURO, in Germany.
In Bucharest, that banner from the first match, with the message Kosovo is Serbia, also brought the first Kosovar show, which ended with the departure to the locker room. Then there was a happy-end, the resumption of the match, otherwise we would have been in danger of losing on the green table. Because there had not been a direct match without incidents, I had great fears this time as well.
But, as never before, apart from some anemic whistles when singing their anthem, the Romanian supporters gave an unexpected lesson in civilization. Kosovo could play football and clearly did so far above us, who were saved by an unreal Nice and immense luck when even they were beaten. No one had any reaction to the guests.
And so it came to what had been carefully prepared from Prishtina in case football would not be enough for victory. The Kosovars were clearly prepared for the scenario that followed and embarrassed their coach, the German Franco Foda, who accepted this poor plan probably in exchange for tens of thousands of euros.
And the fact that everything Romanian is a mortal enemy was the way in which our so-called guests got into the press and the conference room, where the huiigan invested by Napoli with the captain’s armband, Rrahmani, almost missed a beat Romanian journalist on the pretext that he had touched him.
It’s time for UEFA, if they want such things to stop happening in the future in sports, to take the toughest measures, beyond the naturalness of a 3-0 for us. Measures that go as far as the maximum means in the regulations, that is to remove from any competition at least at the level of the national team of Kosovo. But be careful, UEFA, you will surely immediately become declared enemies of the fearless hooligans in the enclave, and you don’t even know why they are capable!
Source: www.cotidianul.ro
