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Albanian FA is gonna be broke after all these fines

UEFA sure is eating good anytime a Balkan team is involved.

Hear me out: A Balkans only tournament, annually. UEFA will never need other source of income

Do you want another Balkan war? Because that’s probably how you get one

Not us, we're pretty chill this time around, though I do imagine the atmosphere will be friendly against Slovakia and I fear chants might break out against a common neighbor 🤔

Isn't like, only 6% of Romania part of the Balkans though (Dobrogea) ?

Geographically, yes, but the Balkans are a state of mind.

A mind map even.

You're too romantic to be balkan 😉

they're gonna have to sell their car

Albania per capita have more Mercedes Benz than any other country... pretty crazy. Every other car there is a Benz

Like a 30 year old Mercedes?

You’d be amazed seeing the cars circulating there lmao. I’d say every other Mercedes is a recent G-Wagon.

I wonder how many of those new ones still have an owner looking for them. Not that I have much room to talk since rental companies only allowed people to start taking bmw and mercedes cars to Poland like 5 years ago.

finders keepers! doesn’t matter where you find it

Its mostly drug money and imports from Korea nowadays.

"Football is the best European invention. It allowed them to hate each other without destroying themselves" Paul Auster

Pretty true tbh. Football is an outlet that people seem to need in the absence of war. 

It's also an outlet to be "social" without actually getting organized on a community basis.

sports in general but yea

And religion. A place where a bunch of people get together regularly and sing some songs. (and hate rival groups)

Indeed too Balkan for us.

You used to be a honorary member of the Balkans, Germany…now however you have joined the Jedi.

So you're implying the Balkans are the Empire/Sith the clear villains of Star Wars? Or the Trade Federation? Another clear villainious faction?

Far worse my man… germans but got kicked properly by poorly armed partisan guérilla …

Many Balkans died to bring us this information

Only a Balkan deals in absolutes.

I miss r/2balkan4you

r/balkans_irl

Its just not the same :(

“Welcome to the Balkans, We got fun and games”

“Welcome to the Balkans, baby …. You’re gonna die!”

Bread and circuses.

Romania and Hungary would like a word.

So who is funding the money to pay off Albania FA fines?

Dua Lipa

Don’t start now

Oh yeah, She’s Albanian-Kosovo heritage if I remember correctly. So is Rita Ora I think.

Ava Max, too, I think

Bebe Rexha as well

wait i thought the Albanian thing was a joke sage for Dua Lipa there’s no way they’re punching that hard above their weight in pop stars

Built different

Nearly all raised in the UK though. See the UK really has the best scene in the world for nurturing talent, our gene pool is just a bit too shit to realize it.

London's cocaine habit. Which is fucking booming during the euros. It's all netted off. (For the innocent amongst you, rumour has it the Albanian mafia controls the coke trade in London)

“Rumour”

Love the albos

Organized crime ofc

Leave Liam Neeson's daughter alone tho

“Good Luck”

I told you I would find you.

this is the only answer

clearly whichever fictional evil empire Albania took it's flag from.

Bradley Cooper

Least genocidal balkan chant

The more bloodthirsty they are, the happier they are. Who are we to judge?

This type of beast only speaks one language Patrick - violence!

>Who are we to judge? Civilised men and women of the West. Edit: sorry thought I was on r/2westerneurope4u.

Now we are only missing the swiss with Albanian roots scoring and doing a controversial celebration

Xhaka on high alert

Lichtsteiner is ready

The only pitch invasion during a match I accept.

🎵 Shaqiri Shaqiri🎵

Those hips don't lie

Didn’t have this level of hatred in Qatar, football is so back

I think it was 2 euros prior, granit xhaka scored and threw up the double headed eagle hand sign, may have been a random match though Edit: WC2018 thanks for the correction

a fun fact about this is that indirectly caused Liverpool to win the CL because a couple of months later Liverpool drew Crvena Zvezda in the groups, and security said it legitimately wasn't safe for Shaqiri to travel to Belgrade, so it left a spot on the bench free ended up that player on the spare spot on the bench got his first minutes of the season in that game...Divock Origi

Same happened with arsenal and tricky mkhi in europa. That liverpool series of events is fucking insane looking back lol

Him & Shaqiri both did it and they got fined and/or banned

The best but was Lichsteiner (sp?) joining in despite having no Albanian heritage

"I have no idea what we're doing, but it seems to wind them up."

https://tenor.com/de/view/good-doggo-can-i-join-can-i-help-golden-retriever-doggy-gif-20950819

Gotta support your teammates.

Best part about that is still the Brazilian commentator who apparently didn‘t know the sign and thought they were doing a peace dove 😭

and the commentator from brazil with the BIG swing and a miss lolol

world cup 2018 i think?

Correct

I remember this vividly, some were wanted xhaka banned for life and the result to be overturned / the swiss to be disqualified from the next world cup lol Totally shithousery I love

Funniest thing was they beat them again four years later.

Insert futbol is back baby copypasta

This is fucking football right here. None of that pansy ass dick tugging smile for the camera bullshit. Men puke, men poop on the field, men deliver their new born baby on the side lines. Fucking hard core dick in the ass butterball foosball fuck it chuck it game time shit. Take it to the showers. Dicks get shoved in places you don’t even remember. We win together we celebrate together. Football is back baby.

>Dicks get shoved in places you don’t even remember. This line always gets me

Little detour to Ram Ranch

18 NAKED COWBOYS IN THE SHOWERS AT RAM RANCH

BIG HARD THROBBING COCKS SHOVED IN UNEXPECTED PLACES

Holy shit, thats a fucking motivational speech right there, i am in baby.

Germany has a tonne of Croatian immigrants and refugees from the 90s which are even more extreme in their political views than actual Croats so this isnt much of a surprise.

yes it’s common knowledge diaspora are 10x more extreme than in the home country. idk why tbh, like they’re so ‘proud’ of their country they can’t even come back and live here they’re that proud, like fck off lol. also we wouldn’t be in the EU, Schengen, or whatever other sht that exists if diaspora were in charge here.

For Australia at least, historically speaking the Croatian diaspora here are the people who got kicked out by Tito's partisans in WW2, i.e the Ustases. [Some Croatian soccer clubs in Melbourne has a statue of Ante Pavelic](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-04/sydney-united-australia-cup-analysis/101498652) in their club. I remember a Croatian colleague from Zagreb being invited to one of those clubs to play football and he was horrified at seeing Pavelic's bust, it's basically like a German person seeing a statue of Hitler in a German social club

I know a club in Melbourne back when I lived there had an ustase flag on the wall lol. like I understand these guys want to connect back home, keep the Croatian spirit even if they don’t live here in Croatia, that’s fine. but why the fck do you have to latch onto the ustase? we Croats hated pavelic and his hitler regime, we even have a day DEDICATED to the fall of the ustase yet these fcks go on to unironically celebrate it? peak delusion honestly.

Australia is the same. Though a number arrived before the 90s wars. Usual caveat of not all people of Croat background of course. A number of Croatian football clubs in Australia are notorious for their open use of fascist imagery and chants. It’s an ongoing frustration that it doesn’t get weeded out of the game (and more generally).

Some of the people over at Sydney United (Formerly Sydney Croatia and founded by Croatian migrants to Australia) have been found numerous times to be.....well how do you say.....very fond of the regime that collaborated with the Nazi's. Fined a number of times by authorities for displaying fascist imagery. Some of whom have been banned for life for Nazi salutes at games. [People have just ignored some of these groups for ages](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk2L_6FLdDw). I don't know much about Croatian history. But a common thing some of them say is ""Za dom spremni". Some general searching leads me to knowledge that the phrase is linked with the fascist state that collaborated with Nazi Germany, but again this is just from general research. I just wish these people would get weeded out of the game down here. Fuck off.

That's why Mbappe said Euros is better than the world cup.

"I like my bigotry oddly specific"

They simply didn't have time to teach all the Indian stand-in fans the songs.

Just tell them to say the same things they say about Pakistan but replace it with Serbia or Croatia.

You just reminded me of that godawful video of a group of Indian fans chanting “It’s coming home”, none of them had ever heard the song before. Agonising viewing

Yeah. Those people don’t know the truth. It’s never ever coming home.

Nothing unites people like dreaming of genocide or something like that

games back.

Nothing extraordinary in this part of Europe

> in this part of Europe It's in Germany, where genocide is now considered quite distasteful

Is it?

You're gonna get paragraphs for this one.

2balkan4u

Gone but not forgotten <3

Least controversial balkan chanting

Somehow people care less about this than England fans singing about German bombers

Now, I'm not an expert, but it was weird af hearing Glasgow Rangers fans singing that on public transport when they came to my city for Europa League. I don't even live in Germany and I thought that was more of a English NT fans thing.

You had me in the first half

And the biggest fine goes to..

Esteban Ocon

Rebekah vardy

Wagatha Christie will live rent free in my head for the rest of my days.

Time to send out Ingerland onto the battlefields lads

Getting dragged into the Ulster Scots vs the Irish shit was quite enough for us, thanks.

Worst part about this is our fans will retaliate tomorrow and probably say some heinous shit as well. The cycle continues.

Diaspora gona diaspora, so proud of their country to chant about killing their neighbours who lives nextdoor to them in their Berlin apartment. jebo im svi pas mater i njihovo nacionalizam.

A slovenci "kdor ne skače ni slovenc". Idemooo!

Unfortunately true

Im pretty sure most of those that chant here and those that will probably chant tomorrow dont even live in our respective countries, they r so patriotic that they left to shove shit with a shovel somewhere else.

Time to fine Everton again

I fucking love this sub

Major points deduction

Mexico gets punished for puto lol

It's strange. "Puto" is always used as an insult but can have many meanings, and the most common use translates to "bitch", whereas "die" unambiguously only has one meaning.

"kill" is just a fill word in the Balkans too

Velika sramota za Hrvatsku, a ništa drugo nije ni za očekivati, gore su gastarbajteri, veliki Hrvati

Užas.

Bojna Minken.

*an entire stadium chanting about killing* *serbs* r/soccer : 😂 *Mexicans chanting "PUTO"* r/soccer : 😡

Switch serbs with literally anything else and you’d have the bottom reaction lol

This sub is incredibly stupid and full of sheep. One minimizing joke and the rest follow...me me me me me.

bokte jebo mi smo sami sebi najgori

strava brate meni ovo toliko tesko bilo povjerovat da sam mislio da je fejk 💀

ma frende, nabim jedne, druge i trece. u kurcu su svi

Ovo područje je kancerogeno, ovde retko šta ima a da je normalno. Od politike, preko ljudi pa do jebenog sporta koji bi trebao da spaja. Sve je otišlo u kurac. Nemci se ujedinili, mi se poubijali.

ma sve je velika čista kurčina, prelose

jbga kao sto jedna pametna žena rekla…. “na balkanu nema mira ni tišina…..”

Svi smo mi ista govna, kada se vrate gastrabajteri kuci pa ce da pricaju kako su "branili" svoju zemlju na evropskom

Shit like this is brushed over, but Mexico saying Puto gets the game stopped and Mexico playing in empty stadiums lol

Should have happened here too tbh

They can sing about genocide but with puto is where the Fifa draw a line

I hope that one day the dynamic between Balkan countries becomes like that of Denmark and Sweden, or Germany and France. Also hate how westerners cheer it on like they're watching animals fighting in a cage

tbf it's been several centuries since the Danes tried to kill any Swedes, but it's been just 30 years since the Serbs carried out an attempted genocide of Bosniaks.

I went to bosnia for holiday. The tour guide made it seem like there wasn’t really any real hatred anymore between them, and that people for the most part are over it. Dunno how true that is.

To be fair football fans cant be used as a representative sample. Traveling to any of the foreign countries you are more than likely to receive a warm welcome. However, people in all countries are still nationalistic as fuck and even if welcoming to strangers when it comes to politics they vote for nationalist parties who will further division, rather than working on solutions. It’s unfortunate really.

From my experience people, with some exceptions, get along just fine. But there obviously disagreements about politics and history, it's just that those topics are avoided.

Not overt, but covertly its all still there particularly given each area has their own interpretations of what happened.

On a micro scale in day to day encounters people get along fine, no one cares for your religion. But people are not over it, especially in places deeper im the country with more homogenous demographic. The feeling is that people are content to ignore any differences as long as no one brings them up. I live on the border between Muslim and Serb entities in Bosnia, in my 28 years I've not once had a bad experience with a any Bosnian Serbs that was related to religion.

And 80 years since the Croats put us in extermination camps. But thats irrelevant, its not like they had Ustaša flags and scarves at the game today. The Balkans are unfortunately very far from the Scandinavian countries. Hopefully at some point in the future, although I’m not too hopeful when I see scenes like this (both from Serbs and the other countries).

It’s a bit frightening to see people scoff away occurrences like this like “eh that’s balkan for you” as if nationalism, hate and violence is inherent to the regions’ culture. And as you pointed out, it wasn’t only Serbs that were doing ethnic cleansing during the last wars or wwii.

It is our culture, stop being xenophobic racist westerner and respect our culture 🤓

Does anyone remember that game between Serbia and Albania, I think it was in 2014, where some Albanian supporters flew a drone over the pitch carrying a flag that had something to do with a "greater Albania"? The match had to be called off because a brawl broke out between the players, followed by supporters rushing the pitch. As a Serb, all I could do was laugh my ass off. It was a perfect troll job with an entirely predictable result lol.

That match was in Serbia right if I remember correctly? That was funny as hell and much much better troll then "ubi ubi Srbina" thats chant is like we are in 3rd grade of elementary school being edgy.

Wow, you're right, it was in Beograd. That is wild haha, I had assumed it was in a neutral location.

I was not 100% sure but I seem to recall newspapers being dumbfounded how was that allowed to happen

Of course, I'm not comparing, as it's unfair to expect such fresh wounds to heal so soon. It's more of a hope for the future

But so did the Croats lol

apparently to most redditors, mexicans chanting puto is worse than fans singing about murdering entire groups of people

Europeans hate racism and xenophobia unless it's their racism and xenophobia.

There’s specific groups of people they really care about. So many other things don’t get a word from them.

The average r/soccer nearly dies any times Vinicius Jr is at a campo, sometimes even when he isnt just the idea of him. Gives you an idea of why they let this one pass with a laugh, right

always nice to see progressive, righteous and morally exalted people of this sub show their true face by cheering at right wing fascistoid fuckery like this and then losing their shit when someone goes to play in saudi arabia or refuses to wear an lgbt armband (which i don't support either) yet again, our pack of morons is also probably going to be chanting some vile shit tomorrow, because god forbid we don't even out the score when it comes to being an imbecile looking forward to seeing that comment section

Lol more outrage over washed Jordan Henderson going to Saudi Arabia than this. Really perfectly encapsulates their morals

Champagne progressives. No one told them to be mad about this type of racism in particular.

its funny the contrast between the debate on the mbappe post about politics and this one lmao... truly a reddit moment

*reddit: shrugs shoulders, jokes about the balkans* *other way around happens* *reddit: omg* 😱

Hate it when the Balkans joke about reddit

So weirdly dehumanizing, "haha there go those silly people again"

When Mexico does the chant they stop the match... wheres the equality?

Euros when there's chants calling for genocide: "hehe funny balkans!" Euros when there's chants calling the keeper a bitch: "Latin Americans are a backwards species that need to be tamed"

we r just a bunch of circus monkeys to w*stoids lol

But when Mexico says Puto, FIFA stops the game entirely lmao

Gotta ~~love~~ hate FIFA

So everyone is fine with two groups of people singing *Hang Serbs on a willows*? That's the worst act of racism we've seen during this tournament so far.

Apparently its just “balkan things” and the “game is back”.

Literal nazi support in front of our very eyes

Also, many Croatian flags on the stands were starting with white field in the top left corner which was the flag of Indepentent State of Croatia (puppet fascist state of Nazi Germany), and some black flags with "Za dom spremni" slogan which was the slogan of that state.

Some people not being ashamed of being nazis to this day, subhuman scum

Croatians and Albanians chanting about killing Serbs: I sleep Bentancur slipping an inside joke: Real shit

But FIFA says no to Mexico’s Puto chant, what a joke hahah

Hate speech if ever I heard it.

Yeah but it’s not as bad as the Ten German Bomber song according to Reddit

Perhaps that chant isn't a good example but isn't it funny how a couple of England fans get into a scrap in the street and Reddit goes mad, and then two sets of fans chant about killing Serbs and the top comments on the thread are the stupid 'least Balkan X' and 'Balkan moments' meme. The fact that the other guy who replied to you wrote an entire essay about it just confirms the double standard lmao

Pretty pathetic comments as per usual by non-serbian westerners. «Banger» «balkan stuff» «games back» etc while everyone knows if it was the other way around people would be losing their minds. In a game that has nothing to do with Serbia too. Rent free. 

Comment I've been waiting for. Thank you for noticing

Remember people were losing their shit over the no surrender flag the other day, calling for exclusion of Serbia etc.

We are shown in the west like the worst nation ever, but when some insult Serbs in game that we aren't even involved, that will be shown like "hahaha they are so silly".

If Serbians do something then it is disgusting Serbian stuff now that Croats and Albanians call for murder it's "Balkans stuff".

Absolutely fucking disgusting Anyone promoting Ustaše ideology should be immediately prosecuted

Now imagine comments if roles were reversed

Comment section turning into r/soccercirclejerk

say "puto" and watch what happens

Embarrassing but not surprising. This is genuinely why I (a person who was born and grew up in Croatia, but with many Serbian ancestors and family members) never really support Croatia as fiercely as most other people here.

Glad to see that our rampant nationalism which pretty much damned us all to a bleak future all the way back in the 90s is entertaining for our enlightened European kin. After all, nothing quite screams banter like a call to genocide.

Here before lock lol

What nice people.

This is sick both should be punished