an hour agoKosovo team takes 34 hours on the road, but Spain makes sudden decision
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Except that the trip from Kosovo to Spain, for the girls' club “Istog” lasted longer than anticipated, even bigger Kosovo problems were presented after they arrived on the Iberian peninsula. The Kosovo club will hold two matches under 1/8 of the Challenge Cup final, in Malaga, Spain, today and [...]
Except that the trip from Kosovo to Spain, for the girls' club “Istog” lasted longer than anticipated, even bigger Kosovo problems were presented after they arrived on the Iberian peninsula.
The Kosovo club will hold two matches within the 1/8th of the Challenge Cup final, in Malaga, Spain, today and tomorrow, as was the agreement between the two sides, writes The Express.
To hold these matches, however, Spain's authorities have demanded that Istog play without state symbols, which the Kosovo club does not accept.
Istog Directors have declined to have Istog's team appear on the ground without the state flag of the Republic of Kosovo, and for this stance has full support of the FHK, which supports Istog for the match to take place only under equal conditions, negotiations are continuing”, it is written in the post of the Kosovo club.
The match is expected to begin at 18:30, but if Istog is not allowed to participate with Kosovo state symbols, then he will not accept play.
This is not the first time Kosovo athletes face such problems in Spain, since even in the last world of Karate, Spain had banned Kosovo representatives from using state symbols.
Spain has been under constant pressure from the International Olympic Committee, which had threatened the Spanish authorities that if such problems continue to occur, then they could be banned from organizing international races.
