Karaqi karate player Alvin: No Serb will defeat me (Video)

Alvin Karaqi, one of the contestants who would participate in the European Championship in an exclusive interview for Periscope, revealed the reason for the ban.

For them we went more for provocation than for sport,” said Karaqi.

The first “We went with symbols of Kosovo, normal we are representatives of Kosovo, the second time they demanded that for security reasons we would not have state symbols and we dressed normal.

But, it was seen that this wasn't the main reason why we were blocked, they were just trying to find a target and they thought we were going to step back because of the symbols.

We went there, we did ours, they showed themselves,”

Alvin, among other things, said contestants are not to blame for their background and for the problems between Kosovo and Serbia.

And because of what happened between two countries, we are athletes and we don't get involved in politics.

Karaqi was harsh yesterday by making a statement in Merdare.

Serbia's “Diplomacy wins all, one championship is lost, but it is the last time one is held in Serbia. They have to come to other states and they have to confront us and they have very expensive pay,” has the Kosovo karateist said yesterday.

Today Karaqi has said that this was not a political threat, but was a message to Serbian karateers if in the future there would be confrontation with them.

I don't threaten them politically, but my threat is to racers. We respect ourselves in the arena and outside the arena.

They have not respected us as we respected them, and for that cause there will be no mercy in the arena. Out of the arena, all is left.

The Kosovo Karateist is very convinced that if he faced Serbian contestants he would never lose.

I am very convinced that no Serb could ever defeat me,” /Periscope/