FIFA is studying what happened in the Serbian dressing room.

 

The International Federation of Football







FIFA opened an investigation with the Serbian Football Federation on Saturday over hanging a political banner relating to the neighboring independent state of Kosovo in the dressing room before facing Brazil in the 2022 World Cup.








The banner showed a map of Serbia that includes the territory of its former province, which has been an independent country for nearly 15 years, and a slogan meaning "No Surrender".


 Pictures of the banner that hung in the locker room before Serbia lost 2-0 to Brazil on Thursday in Qatar were circulated.








The graphic was labeled as leveraging the World Cup to promote "messages of hate, xenophobia, and genocide" by the country's sports minister after the Football Association of Kosovo filed an official protest with FIFA.












FIFA started an investigation into the Serbian Federation by citing a section of its Disciplinary Code that addresses misconduct, including "gestures, signals, or offensive language and the use of a sporting event for demonstrations of a non-sporting nature."










 FIFA did not set a timetable for the verdict, although Serbia will play their next World Cup match on Monday against Cameroon.


 Kosovo separated from Serbia in 2008, and the Serbian government refuses to recognize Kosovo as an independent state, while the United States and most of its European allies recognize Kosovo as an independent state.













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