Ismail Morina, known as Ballisti, the Albanian who raised the "Autochthonous" flag in Belgrade 11 years ago during the match between Albania and Serbia, has today decided to watch this match from Prizren. From a published photo, Ballisti writes "From Prizren, in the capital of Albania".
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Ismail Morina (known as Ballisti) raised a drone over the stadium. The young Albanian traveled from Italy where he lives and had been waiting for hours for the "Autochthonous" flag to be unfurled, where some of the national heroes were. With the 'Eagles' coming from above, the Serbs could not hold back and the racist chants that had been going on since the start of the match increased.
The Serbian players' taking of the flag led to a fight between the players on the field, as the fans broke the bars (even with the permission of the police) and entered the field, violating our players. The symbolic photo of the chair on Bekim Balaj's head, or even the punch given by Lorik Cana remain in the memory even after nearly 11 years.
In such conditions, there was no talk of football and Martin Atkinson sent the players to the locker rooms. The vicissitudes for our team did not stop there, as the Serbian police and army were looking for the person who released the drone into the bags of the players and officials of our team, not knowing that everything was orchestrated from nearby, with Ismail Morina climbing the bell tower of the church of "Archangel Gabriel" and 'released the Eagle over Belgrade'.
After hours of checks, football could no longer be played and the match was stopped, never to be resumed, but in Tirana and throughout Albania, anxiety was for the players. When it was learned that the plane with the red and black delegation left Belgrade, thousands of fans came out in the early hours of October 15, 2014 at the "Mother Teresa" airport to welcome the boys who survived the "Serbian hell".
CAS - The Albanian Football Federation (FSHF) sent the case to CAS and the Lausanne sports court awarded our team a 0-3 victory, with these three points significantly influencing the red and blacks to secure the finals of "France 2016" for the first time in history after these qualifiers.
