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Serbia have protested to governing body UEFA over alleged hostile chants from Croatian and Albanian fans at a Euro 2024 match but have withdrawn an earlier threat to quit the tournament. Serbian FA secretary general Jovan Surbatovic told public radio RTS they will urge UEFA to sanction the Croatian and Albanian federations over the chants which allegedly occurred during the second half of their 2-2 draw on Wednesday in Hamburg. "We are demanding sanctions from UEFA, ultimately at the cost of not continuing the European Championship," he said. "We don't want to be involved in this, but if UEFA ...
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Serbia have protested to governing body UEFA over alleged hostile chants from Croatian and Albanian fans at a Euro 2024 match but have withdrawn an earlier threat to quit the tournament. Serbian FA secretary general Jovan Surbatovic told public radio RTS they will urge UEFA to sanction the Croatian and Albanian federations over the chants which allegedly occurred during the second half of their 2-2 draw on Wednesday in Hamburg. "We are demanding sanctions from UEFA, ultimately at the cost of not continuing the European Championship," he said. "We don't want to be involved in this, but if UEFA ...
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Serbia have protested to governing body UEFA over alleged hostile chants from Croatian and Albanian fans at a Euro 2024 match and have not ruled out withdrawing from the tournament. Serbian FA secretary general Jovan Surbatovic told public radio RTS they will urge UEFA to sanction the Croatian and Albanian federations over the chants which allegedly occurred during the second half of their 2-2 draw on Wednesday in Hamburg. "We are demanding sanctions from UEFA, ultimately at the cost of not continuing the European Championship," he said. "We don't want to be involved in this, but if UEFA doesn...
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Serbia is protesting at the governing body UEFA over alleged hostile chants from Croatian and Albanian fans at a Euro 2024 match and wouldn't rule out withdrawing from the tournament. Serbian FA secretary general Jovan Surbatovic told public radio RTS they will urge UEFA to sanction the Croatian and Albanian federations over the chants which allegedly occurred during the second half of their 2-2 draw on Wednesday in Hamburg. "We are demanding sanctions from UEFA, ultimately at the cost of not continuing the European Championship," he said. "We don't want to be involved in this, but if UEFA doe...
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UEFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against the Albanian football federation FSHF in connection with several incidents during the team's Euro 2024 match against Italy. The ruling body said on Sunday the charges are "throwing of objects, lighting of fireworks, invasion of the field of play [and] transmitting a provocative message." Albanian fans at Saturday's match in Dortmund, which Italy won 2-1, lit a smoke-bomb, one man ran onto the pitch with an Albania flag in the closing stages, and several forbidden Greater Albania flags were also seen. UEFA said its control, ethics and disciplinar...
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Growing government interference and investor issues are among the biggest future challenges for football, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has said. Speaking in an interview with dpa, Ceferin said that sports and European laws were compatible as he defended the autonomy of sport. "Sport is different from selling Pespi Cola or Coca Cola," he said, insisting that "the sports system has worked for 100 years." The European Court of Justice and a Spanish court have ruled that Europe's UEFA and the world governing body FIFA could not use their position to threaten clubs and players for participatin...
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UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin welcomes the debate about a return of Russian youth teams to international football competition in an effort to help overcome a growing climate of hate but also said there was no overall pressure to bring Russia back. Europe's UEFA and the world governing body FIFA banned all Russian teams from international events shortly after the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. This position has not changed amid the ongoing war, and a UEFA plan from September to re-admit Russian youth teams as neutrals ended after more than 10 national federations sa...
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UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin sees no concrete security threats for the upcoming Euro 2024 tournament in Germany but is concerned about the geopolitical situation as a whole. "We don't have any concrete security issues. But the security issue for me is a violent geopolitical situation in the world," the head of Europe's governing football body told dpa in an interview. "More and more violence. More and more aggression. The situation is not ideal in the world in principle." Ceferin said ahead of the month-long Euros in 10 German cities which start on Friday this was one reason why it was go...
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Munich's district administration has voiced concern about the planned use of pyrotechnics at next week's Euro 2024 opening ceremony, saying it could set a bad example. The administration told broadcasters ARD its fire department had asked tournament organizers to refrain from using pyrotechnics when the plans were announced in January. The ruling body UEFA said the ceremony next Friday in Munich's stadium ahead of the tournament opener between hosts Germany and Scotland included "involvement of established manufacturers and professional companies in accordance with the health and safety regula...
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European football ruling body UEFA won't allow the Austria national team to use "L'amours toujours" as their song at the Euro 2024 in Germany, head of media Christian Wiesmayr told dpa on Saturday. The song recorded by the Italian DJ Gigi D'Agostino was involved in a series of incidents where crowds in Germany shouted far-right chants to the melody of the decades-old pop tune. The Austrian football federation ÖFB said of the ban: "The ÖFB clearly stands for tolerance, diversity and integration and is committed to promoting respectful coexistence in all areas of society. Following the recent in...
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