Toje Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Kosovo will host Haiti on March 5th in Mitrovica and not the capital city Pristina. http://nonfifafootball.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/haiti-opposition-for-historic-kosovo.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Kosovo will host Haiti on March 5th in Mitrovica and not the capital city Pristina. http://nonfifafootball.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/haiti-opposition-for-historic-kosovo.html Seems political in nature playing their first game in Mitrovica. It is a city split by a river and the northern part of the city is Serbian and the capital of North Kosovo which is still de facto independent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toje Posted February 14, 2014 Author Share Posted February 14, 2014 It could very well be political.... but I also read that the main stadium in Pristina is not as good as the stadium in Mitrovica. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackTheBlizzard Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 The majority Serb part of Kosovo integrated into the Kosovo state to a certain extent recently by electing mayors and local governments after an agreement between the Kosovo and Serbian governments. Think this is all part of Serbia's route to European Union entry. The Serbian association had to agree before FIFA would sanction friendly games like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 The majority Serb part of Kosovo integrated into the Kosovo state to a certain extent recently by electing mayors and local governments after an agreement between the Kosovo and Serbian governments. Think this is all part of Serbia's route to European Union entry. The Serbian association had to agree before FIFA would sanction friendly games like this. The elections were boycotted by most people in Northern Kosovo. Election turnout ranged from 10 to 25%. There were many incidents of violence and several polling stations were attacked with election materials destroyed. One councilman in North Mitrovica was recently assassinated. The central government demanded that winners of the election sign a paper pledging loyalty to Kosovo but tried to trick those in the North by gluing a paper over the declaration and symbols of Kosovo that they would remove later after the people had signed it not knowing what they had signed. Some of the candidates realized the trick and refused to sign including the winner of the mayoral election of Northern Mitrovica so the government annulled the results of that election and will re-run it without the previous winner. So things are very far from being integrated. The only thing that is happening is that Serbia is getting blackmailed by the EU into abandoning the Serbs of Kosovo. Also interesting what having a large US airforce base will do for a country. I am not against the independence of Kosovo but it was achieved in a fully illegal and undemocratic manner. This was intentionally done to ensure that no legal precedent was established for a region to achieve independence that would allow states that the US and its allies do not approve of such as South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transnistria to become officially independent. Also it seems that if the Albanian areas of Kosovo are permitted to succeed from Serbia that the Serbian areas of Kosovo should be given the same right to succeed from Kosovo but that is not the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toje Posted February 15, 2014 Author Share Posted February 15, 2014 Kosovo are in discussions to try to get Adnan Januzaj to play against Haiti on March 5th. http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/world/news-display/januzaj-invited-to-play-for-kosovo/86121 ""We are in discussions with Adnan's family and to have a player of his amazing talent play in our very first match would be hugely symbolic," said Eroll Salihu, the secretary general of Kosovo's Football Federation. "We feel he owes it to his people to take some part in the match, even if it is for just 15 minutes. "I stress this is a symbolic gesture. By playing in this match we are not thinking he is making any commitment to us." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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