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Rob Dawson, Reporter
Serbia threatened to quit his job Euro 2024 if UEFA fails to act following allegations of chanting among fans of Croatia And Albania.
A group of fans attended the ceremony draw 2-2 in Hamburg on Wednesday could be heard taking part in chants of attacks against Serbia.
Jovan Surbatovic, general secretary of the Serbian Football Association, has suggested that Serbia may not continue to participate in the tournament in Germany unless the European governing body issues an appropriate punishment.
Serbia saved one draw 1-1 with Slovenia in the second Group C match on Thursday in Munich. Hours after the match, UEFA said it had asked an internal investigator to look into the allegations.
UEFA said a disciplinary inspector had been appointed “to conduct an investigation in relation to potential racist and/or discriminatory behavior by supporters that is believed to have occurred”. .
UEFA did not give a timeline for the incident, which is unlikely to be resolved before Serbia’s third and possibly final match – on Tuesday against Denmark.
“What happened is a scandal and we will ask UEFA for punishment, even if it means not continuing the tournament,” Surbatovic told Serbian state broadcaster RTS.
“We will ask UEFA to punish the federations of both teams.
“We don’t want to get involved in that, but if UEFA doesn’t punish them, we will think about how we will proceed.”
In a separate statement on Thursday, the Serbian Football Federation condemned the “shameful racist behavior” of Albanian and Croatian fans, and said the match should have been halted as soon as the noise was heard. chanting begins.
“Insulting a nation with calls for it to be killed has been absent from sporting events for a long time,” the statement added.
UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin joined Serbian officials in Munich for Thursday’s match against his home country Slovenia
On Wednesday, UEFA canceled media credentials by Kosovar journalist Arlind Sadiku for allegedly making nationalist gestures towards Serbian fans during their match England in Gelsenkirchen on Sunday.
A statement released by UEFA read: “UEFA can confirm that a journalist has had his credentials canceled due to misconduct during the UEFA EURO 2024 match between Serbia and England on 16 June 2024. ”
On Monday, the Serbian Football Association was charged by UEFA after its supporters hung banners “transmitting provocative messages inappropriate for a sporting event” and threw objects inside the stadium. .
That accusation was made after the Kosovo Football Federation Complain to UEFA about “Serbian fans express political, chauvinistic and racist messages against Kosovo” during their performance failed 0-1 ARRIVE England.
“We were punished for isolated cases and our fans behaved much better than others,” Surbatovic said.
“A fan was punished for racist insults and we don’t want to blame anyone else. We Serbs are gentlemen and we have open hearts.”
Information from Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to this report
