Hundreds of Romanians shouted: “Out of the country with the Hungarians!”
The Romanian Football Federation fined a team for its supporters’ behaviour, like shouting anti-Hungarian slogans.
Football is the most popular sport on the planet. Athletes belong to a club where everyone has many teammates and colleagues with whom they need to work together to achieve a shared goal. Just like other team sports, it teaches you how to communicate with each other, how to work together, how to motivate and make each other stronger. Football brings people together.
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Unfortunately, there is another thing that brings people together in the same way: a common enemy or someone to hate together. It happens in every sport that supporters of a team form a group to tease either one of the players, the whole club, or the supporters of the opposing team.
A Hungarian football fan, for instance, received one year in prison and a 1000-euro fine in Germany for misbehaving during the Germany-Hungary football match at the EURO2020 in June.
The Hungarian Football Federation itself was also fined 100,000 euros during the same championship in response to the discriminatory behaviour of football spectators.
The newest scandal related to sports and the unfair treatment of the opposing supporters broke out in Romania. The country’s Football Federation fined FCV Farul Constanta for shouting an anti-Hungarian sentence during the team’s clash with Sepsi OSK on August 9.
The sentence “Afară, afară cu ungurii din ţară! – Out of the country with the Hungarians” was echoing from the grandstand of the stadium.
The club will have to pay 10,500 Romanian lei (over 2,000 euros) as a fine, writes index.hu. Moreover, both coaches and the home team’s sports masseur received separate punishments, apart from the club’s penalty.
FCV Farul Constanta’s coach, Gică Hagi, will have to pay 360 Romanian lei (73 euros) and will be suspended from his team’s next two games. Their masseur, Daniel Stoian, is fined for double the amount, 720 Romanian lei (146 euros), and will be out of work for an entire month. The visiting team’s coach, Leo Grozavu, received a much bigger fine. He is also suspended for the next two games, but he needs to pay 4,500 Romanian lei (916 euros), writes Transindex.
After the incident, the Mikó Imre Minority Rights Legal Services Assistance wrote a letter to UEFA.
“This incident is graver than the ones from the past; meanwhile, anti-Hungarian sentiments are becoming more frequent on the grandstand. It is outrageous that the game was not paused, the authorities did not deal with the shouting fans, and that they still did nothing, even when the fans were spitting on the players and throwing bottles at them.”
Read alsoRomanians say Hungary wants Transylvania back
Source: index.hu, mikoimre.ro, itthon.transindex.ro
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The imagined ‘common enemy’ or ‘someone to hate together’ is a tactic much used by the current Hungarian government but, as it is increasingly finding out, it is scoring own goals and facing financial penalties.
Send our Foreign Minister – Peter Szijjarto – on another peace saving mission ///.
He has that Midas Touch or appears able to wave that magical wand – to build bridges and restore relationships.
There is a job for Peter Szjjarto – inked out, after the National Elections May 2022 – and that is as a Marriage Guidance Councilor.
Szijjarto – will excel in that Profession.
God bless Victor Orban and another term in office as a great leader of Hungary. The left are idiots and if you don’t believe me, just look at what is happening in the USA. Long live CAPITALISM.