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Bosnia-Herzegovina facing ban
Topic Started: Mar 29 2011, 06:17 PM (437 Views)
Skywarp
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Bosnia-Herzegovina faces a ban from all international matches after they refused to cut their three-member presidency to one at a meeting on Tuesday.

The Bosnian federation currently consists of two associations: one a Bosnian Serb and another shared by Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats, headed by a Bosniak, a Croat and a Serb to reflect the country's ethnic division after the 1992-95 war.

The situation has been tolerated by football's governing bodies for years due to the political situation in the country. However, FIFA and UEFA told the federation last October that if it did not conform to the rules of single presidency by end of March, it would be suspended on April 1.

"It's hard. I'm taking this very hard," Muhidin Rascic, a Bosniak member of the federation's executive board, said. "Only I know how much of my life I have invested into all of this and now it's gone."

Bogdan Ceko, the head of the Bosnian Serb association, told media after the meeting that he "does not feel personally responsible for this but we can talk about a collective responsibility".

The dispute looks set to damage Bosnia's 2012 European Championship campaign, as they face Romania on June 3, and Albania on June 7, although they will avoid suspension if the federation agrees to FIFA and UEFA's demands.

Any suspension would first have to be confirmed by the emergency committees of FIFA and UEFA, chaired by their respective presidents Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini.


While it's not ideal what right have UEFA got to tell a federation how they should be structured? I mean that's a pretty troubled area of the world and if having a presidential representative of the 3 main ethnic groups is the best way forward then they should be allowed to do it.
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The Derry Pele
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Its Uefa would you expect different, looks like it could be a great model for the countries politics in general something that could really work and catch on in other countries...to bad Plantini is a daddymac
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Skywarp
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I don't understand why UEFA and FIFA think they have to stick their oar in all the forking time. Seriously I can't see how that contravenes any of their rules surely they have to make allowances for countries like Bosnia who have such recent troubled past, or do they want to cause s**t and watch Bosnian football, which is slowly starting to come good, go right down the p***er?

I wish Platini would just fork off and leave football to the people who actually give a fork about it rather than the glory and the pay cheque.
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