World Cup 2018: Fifa investigates Switzerland duo over goal celebrations

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Football's reality representing body has opened an examination concerning Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri's objective festivals amid Switzerland's World Cup triumph over Serbia.

The two players are ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, where a Serbian crackdown on the Albanian populace just finished with Nato military mediation in 1999.

In the wake of scoring, they influenced a hawk to signal in an image of the two-headed falcon on the Albanian banner.

Both were booed by Serbia fans.

In an announcement, Fifa said its disciplinary advisory group had opened procedures against Xhaka and Shaqiri, including: "In connection to a similar match, disciplinary procedures have been opened against the Serbian FA for swarm unsettling influence and the show of political and hostile messages by Serbian fans.

"Moreover, a primer examination has been opened against the mentor of the Serbian national group, Mladen Krstajic, for affirmed articulations made in the fallout of the said coordinate."

It is misty what the examination concerning Krstajic alludes to, yet in remarks to Serbian columnists on Saturday, he said of match ref Felix Brych: "I wouldn't give him either a yellow or red card, I would send him to The Hague. At that point they could put him on preliminary, as they did to us."

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After the diversion, which his side won 2-1, Switzerland's Bosnia-conceived chief Vladimir Petkovic was gotten some information about the festivals and stated: "You ought to never blend football and legislative issues. It's vital to be a fan, and to give regard.

"It was an awesome environment and that is the thing that help ought to be about."

Xhaka's dad burned through three and a half years as a political detainee in Yugoslavia while Shaqiri was conceived in Yugoslavia before emigrating to Switzerland as a tyke.

Shaqiri likewise wore a Kosovan hail, sewed onto his boots.

"It's simply feeling," he said in regards to his festival. "I'm extremely glad to score this objective. It's not more. I figure we don't need to talk about this now."

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