The Prime Minister of Romania, Marcel Ciolacu, has responded to Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, who expressed support for the Kosovo football players who refused to return to the field after being prompted by anti-Kosovo chants from the Romanian fans.
Ciolacu stated that it was “totally unacceptable” for Kurti to mix politics with sports.
“It is totally unacceptable what the Prime Minister of Kosovo is doing, mixing politics with sport, and claiming, after his national football team abandoned the match against Romania, that he will exert political-diplomatic pressure to have us punished! He is vainly trying to turn the perpetrator into the victim, and—more seriously—seeking to exert political pressure in European football forums, hoping for an illusory decision! I tell him directly and clearly that, no matter how hard he tries, he will not distort reality, and he is on the wrong path because politics has no place in sport,” Ciolacu stated, as reported by gsp.ro.
He emphasized that, in his view, neither the Romanian football players nor the fans were to blame for the incident.
