Disciplinary committee FIFA) began investigation concerning the Swiss football players Dzhaki's Dzhaka Granit and Shakiri Dzherdan from gestures with which they met the hammered balls during a match against Serbia.
As the British broadcasting company reports toBBC News
, both players – Kosovan Albanians by origin. After each hammered ball, notes TV channel, Dzhaka Granit and Shakiri Dzherdan put palms with thumbs up in the form of a two-headed eagle from a flag Albania.FIFA regarded these actions as political gesture. The Serbian fans catcalled Swisses.
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After a match Dzhaka Granit and Shakiri Dzherdan declared that made such gestures on emotions from game, without wishing anybody to offend. Football players emphasized that their actions were addressed only to the family.
Besides, began investigation concerning Federation of soccer Serbia because of behavior of the Serbian football fans who, allegedly, made offensive political statements.
FIFA combined Serbia Krstaich Mladen also check statements of the trainer. Thus it is not specified, what his statements guarded FIFA. Allegedly, it is a question of words of the trainer about the German judge Felix Brykh: "I would not give it neither yellow, nor a red card, and would send it to The Hague". "Let it would give for court as they did it with us", – Krstaich Mladen added.
we Will remind, in Kaliningrad the match of the second round of a group stage of the FIFA World Cup came to the end with a victory combined Switzerland over Serbia with the score 2:1.