UEFA always harps on ‘respect’, ‘protecting the game’ in their athletic events all those words were rendered not true.
How Liverpool will face Red Star Belgrade in this year's Champions League. Xherdan Shaqiri will probably avoid traveling with Liverpool. Shaqiri is of Albanian heritage.
Tensions between Serbia and Albania remain high because of the war - according to the Serbian club's sporting director Zvezdan Terzic
"I think Shaqiri will undergo extraordinary psychological pressure," Terzic told daily Serbian publication Kurir.
"He knows where he will be going. I know very well that our club is a symbol of Serbia, unlike Partizan Belgrade, who represent Yugoslavia more.
"I do not know if he will be willing to play in Marakana [the nickname of Red Star's Rajko Mitic Stadium] under these conditions, so I doubt he'll come. If he comes, he'll be smaller than a poppy seed."
Now coming back to UEFA mission of respect & protecting the game - clearly here this club director made a mockery of those objectives, we can say he gives the middle finger to UEFA.
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