Turkey's victory (re)fuels Albanian morale
Well, sports and politics went hand by hand many times in recent Serbian history: "Maximir fight" between Red Star and Dynamo fans in 1990. announced the upcoming Croatian secession of that decade. Then for the next 5 years FR Yugoslav (SRB&MTN) sportsmen were humiliated and made suffer the political and economic repression of the western powers targeting the newly formed FRY (banned from all events, even the Olympics). We saw a lot of hooliganism and many clashes between the fans of the ex-Yu clubs in the last 10-15 years also...
But this is really something new even for the "crazy Balkans". After Turkey snatched a late victory over the Serbian national basket team in the 2010 WorldCup semis, their Albanian fans in South of Kosovska Mitrovica came up on the idea to celebrate this (joint?) victory by attempting to cross the bridge that divides the city and trash the northern, Serbian half of the city. Some 500 of them were instantly met by local Serbs who were watching the game in the bars next to the bridge, then the Serbian attack sirens went off and a more massive crowd of Serbs joined in - then EULEX intervened (guess on who's side?) - and it all went to hell...
Video of ethnic clashes in Kosovo as police break up Mitrovica riots
Turkey basketball win fuels Kosovo clash
Turqi-serbi / Türkiye-sırbistan, Mitrovicë-Kosovë 11.09.2010
Now, I gotta hand it to the Albanians, for the first time they've succeeded at being original in something. And this is a historical contribution to hooliganism in the Balkans. I mean, we had Serbian fans trash some city abroad after their team (be it SRB national team or a club) looses (Red Star fans trashed Prague recently), we had em trash a stadium while celebrating a goal (SRB-AUT football game last year in Vienna, when they've covered the entire section of the stadium and part of the field in smoke and fire with smoke bombs and torches.
But that was all Serbs going crazy over THEIR OWN team winning or loosing, you never heard we trashed some place cuz Russia or Montenegro beat somebody in something
I can understand that Albanians are **ssed that their national (Albanian) team sucks at everything, while their Greater-national ("Kosova") team can't compete at anything cuz they're not a country. But this kinda projection is simply pathetic.
On the more (or less) serious level, this maybe what the so called "interior minister" of "Kosova" meant when he spoke of "Kosovo security forces" getting ready to make itself present in "the north". A bunch of stoned quasi-islamic extremists on a basketball power trip
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I say - Next time Serbia looses an important game, send in what you call "Army of Kosovo" - see if they can do better then these thugs from their spearhead who got their behind whooped by half-drunk Serbian sport fans from the pub
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Originally Posted by wilpuri
