The Romania-Kosovo match, counting for the 5th day of the League of Nations, was stopped this Friday in Bucharest after anti-Kosovar chants against Kosovo players were sung from the stands.
As the match ended 0-0, some of the supporters chanted “Serbia, Serbia!“, pushing the visiting team to leave the pitch.
The authorities then decided to permanently stop the game.
UEFA said on its official website that the match had been “arrested“and that the last remaining minutes of play would not be played. The European body”will communicate further information in due course“, she added. Before the match, the Romania was first in group 2 of League C with 12 points, ahead of Kosovo (9 pts).
The Serbia never recognized the independence of its former province of Kosovo in 2008 and maintained there – in the Serbian areas – so-called “parallel“, from schools to hospitals to pension funds.
Around 100,000 Serbs are believed to live in Kosovoaccording to recent estimates, a figure impossible to verify because the Serbian populations boycotted the latest censuses.
The Romania also does not recognize the independence of the Kosovo.
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