UEFA’s suspicious decision
08/11/2014 00:00
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Top Channel has copies of the official declarations made by the
officials of the Serbia-Albania match, handed over at the UEFA
commissions, starting from the referee, delegate and security officer.
All officials have given details about what happened in the field, starting from the use of fireworks, the drone with the banner, the entrance of Serbian fans in the pitch, the attack against Bala with a chair by a local fan and the throwing of solid objects when the players were entering the dressing rooms.
Referee Atkinson and the First Referee Frohlisch, wrote that Albania’s Captain, Lorik Cana, argued that it was unable for the Albanian player to start the match, due to their physical and psychological state, after what happened in Belgrade’s stadium.
Both these officials have written on the report that the Albanian side refused to return on the pitch. This is the first question mark, since Cana and the highest representatives of the Albanian Football Federation, Albania was never asked by the referee to turn back on the pitch, and never had any chance to articulate a refusal.
The delegate of the match didn’t take Cana’s declaration as a refusal. The Dutch Harry Been never wrote that the Albanian players refused to turn on the pitch.
He underlines on his report that the NATO flag was burned at the 14th minute, while the weak state of security at the stadium are a responsibility of the Serbian side.
Maybe because Been doesn’t know Serbian, he said that he saw no Serbian discriminatory banner in the stadium.
What makes UEFA’s decision even more contradictory is the declaration of the safety official, Vincent Egbers, who was sent by UEFA to Belgrade for the match of October 14th. His report criticizes the Serbian authorities for the security.
Egbers has written that officers were passive when they had to stop fans from entering the field or catch those who attacked the Albanian players.
He describes that solid objects were thrown on the field, and comments the behavior of locals as very aggressive.
This would be enough to understand the situation in the stadium. Even if the drone with the banner wouldn’t have flown above the field, that match was hardly going to conclude normally.
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