Champions League preliminary interrupted by ‘Balkan baiting’ chants
July 11 – Balkan political posturing has not been confined to the Euros as chanting of insulting messages marred the Champions League first preliminary round match between Borac Banja Luka of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania’s FC Egnatia
The game was interrupted in the second half, after FC Egnatia players were asked by the team’s coaching staff to leave the field because of chants from the stands of ‘Kosovo is Serbia’.
Polish referee Daniel Stefanski briefly stopped the match,
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