October 20, 1998 there was a most scandalous incident involving Polish fans in the history of performances of native clubs in European competition. Wisla Krakow has faced Parma in the 2nd round of the UEFA Cup. During a short break on the pitch player of the Italian team, Dino Baggio, was hit in the head with a knife, thrown from the stands by a hooligan “White Star”.
The event received wide coverage in Europe. These times were indeed fatal for Polish football – rampant corruption, systems in the club and union structures, no major successes in club football and representative. This chapter has already been closed, however, Polish football has done in the organization of great progress, just like the rest of UEFA.
After a memorable game against Parma Wisla has not been ejected from the game, and the Italians did not get a walkover. “White Star” lost on the pitch in the second leg encounter was 1: 2. The penalty was the year of exclusion from European cups. In recent years, the UEFA severely punishes all misconduct cases Supporters of aggression, in its view, improper lighting and mixing politics with sport.
The Legion itself became convinced that the European football authorities can be severe – the club from the capital in recent years has been repeatedly punished for the behavior of their fans. It was known that the stands in Tirana during a game of Kukesi will be hot, but nobody expected it to come to that, the footballer Legion will hit a stone in the celebration of a goal of his team.
The event was shocking and very nearly to the event occurred much more serious consequences – it is in this case literally by centimeters, because they are shared by Ondrej Duda of really serious injuries. Fortunately, I ended up on a small splitting and studies that were excluded trauma invisible to the eye.
– I have not seen such physical violence in relation to the players. Once, similar things happened even in Poland, but it is old news. During the match, the UEFA delegate of the Legion already at half-ordered establishment of peace, because something happened in the stands between fans. Later Ondrej Duda was hit by a stone in the head and it was the second incident in this meeting. The rules say that in such a situation, there is reason to interrupt the game and make it happen – so the events of Thursday’s match Legion of Albanian FK Kukësi summed up Michal Listkiewicz, former president of the Polish Football Association.
Source: TVN24 / x-news
What will be the punishment of UEFA? It is hard to expect any leniency, in the end we are dealing with a case in which there is provided one of the basic things required to ensure that the match could be held – security players.
The Albanian media raised the temperature of the confrontation before the game, and the Legion was considered a rival, which is on the pitch you have to scare to knock out his hands strengths. Hence, playing on the edge of brutality and as many as four yellow cards to players Kukesi.
Already at the gate Nikolic, who opened the scoring, you could see bottles that flew from the stands in the direction of Legia Warsaw striker, as he approached the sideline.
Another warning were clashes between supporters, which occurred during a break of the meeting. Just before the break the locals hung out a flag with the English inscription: “The end of the game will be the end of your life, I am not Slav, I am Albanian” (trans. The end game is the end of your life. I’m not a Slav, I am Albanian) .
After the arbitrator who chaired the meeting announced the completion of the match ahead of time, Albanians tried to persuade delegate that it is now safe and the game can be resumed. This was, however, already practically the moment the Polish runners were on the bus that would take them to the airport. No wonder they were reluctant to do so in order to get back on the pitch, it happens to be fully understood.
The Albanians did not have any positions in the negotiations, and the next they met with representatives of UEFA will be firmly on the occasion to explain to the Disciplinary Board. The official European football authorities’ decision will be taken soon, but you can definitely expect a walkover for the Legion. It is not known whether it comes to revenge the meeting, but even if that happens, the Legion may already feel a promotion to the next, last longer round fight for the League of Europe.
As in the case of the ill-fated match with Parma Wisla Krakow, Albanian football fans set their terrible testimony, which was publicized not only by Polish media. They wrote about her portals across Europe, and the opinion on Albania can only suffer the incident.
Legia on Friday morning returned to Warsaw, but did not want to talk about what happened during the match against FK Kukësi.
– There is no need to talk about it and traced to some of history. On television, you’ve seen probably more than we do from the perspective of the pitch – said Bartosz Bereszyński. Other players do not want to speak about this.
– This is not the thing that we should comment. This will take care of UEFA – summed Michal Kucharczyk.
ps, PolskieRadio.pl
