Switzerland's coach: Gerdan Shaqiri's flag is not to distract
(8 years ago)Switzerland's coach, Vladimir Pekovic, has refused to get involved in the political debate that took place prior to the match between Serbia and Switzerland, especially because his player has a Kosovo flag in his athletes. Shaqiri is expected to continue playing with these athletes who have a flag [...]
Switzerland's coach, Vladimir Pekovic, has refused to get involved in the political debate that took place prior to the match between Serbia and Switzerland, especially because his player has a Kosovo flag in his athletes.
Shaqiri is expected to continue playing with these athletes, who have a Kosovo flag on the right heel, which he has designed especially as part of his heritage.
In the left athlete, he has put on the flag of Switzerland, but the Kosovo flag has triggered political debate because Kosovo has declared its independence from Serbia for 10 years, which refuses to recognise him.
I'll talk to the players and tell them to play a big game like Brazil. That's enough we have to play good against Serbia. We have to give it a better one and we want to win the fight”, Petkovic said.
He added that he would not focus on flags, but on showing Switzerland.
It should be stressed that Vladimir Petkovic is Bosnian Croat.