The Croatian team has high chances of being kicked out before their final group game against Spain. This is after the UEFA brought charges after flashes were hurled from the Croatian corner of the Saint-Etienne stadium after the draw of 2-2 against Czech Republic which happened on Friday. The Croatia coach, Ante Cacic referred the fans causing havoc as sports terrorists while Grabar-Kitarovic who is the president referring to them as enemies of Croatia. Croatia will be playing against Spain on Tuesday on the stadium which has been perfectly laid out by the Torcida Split 1950.
The group also has another plan laid out ahead of the game. There have been angry comments about the post where their fellow country people stated that they were embarrassed of them. Hours before Croatia went up against Czech; Torcida had put up the same outline of the map in the Saint-Etienne stadium. A ruling against the Croatia supporters has been pushed to Monday by the UEFA. The HNS which is Croatia’s football federation has said that there had been a warning given to the UEFA and French police about people who had planned to disturb the match.
The HNS has gone further to blame the Hajduk Split fans for the incident. However, their claims have been denied as fake. This is not the first time that Croatian football fans have disrupted a match, hey have been known for causing chaos and singing the pro-Nazi motto. Croatian police had sent a list of people thought to cause chaos in the Euro 2016 match to France. There has been increase in hooliganism in Croatia ever since the HNS president, Davor Suker took position.
Fyodar Smolov from Russia accused England and Wales fans for the chaos that erupted on the first days of the Euro 2016 championship. At the end of the game in Marseille England fans were attacked by Russia and England and Wales supporters caused violence in Lille. Smolov added that he would prefer the supporters to continue supporting them on the match between them and Wales that would be held on Monday. He also said that the English provoked them. UEFA has threatened to evict Russia in the Euro 2016 match if violence continues.
Slutsky who is a Russian coach said that violence was not going to be taking place any longer. He also added that there was additional security to ensure that such violence did not happen again. Wales coach spoke well of his supporters and urged them to continue supporting them.
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