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The President of North Macedonia, Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, has reacted after anti-Albanian chants from fans at the basketball match between North Macedonia and Romania in Kumanovo.
She said that the Macedonian people are ashamed of the fascist calls against Albanians.
"Due to our sports illiteracy, which happens to who knows how many times, reactions to the terrible incident at the basketball game in Kumanovo, where some irresponsible fans fired bullets of hatred at our Albanian fellow citizens, rightly do not stop, but in fact, they hit us all, even ourselves, and we are ashamed again," she wrote on Facebook.
According to the Macedonian president, the state must confront the hatred of fans and learn how to cheer. According to her, North Macedonia needs "an alphabet of cheering as a sporting pleasure."
"Pure Macedonia", "A good Albanian is a dead Albanian" and "Gas chamber for Albanians" were some of the slogans of the local fans.
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In mid-July, in the match between Shkëndija and the Welsh champion TNS, with the racist insults of footballer Armand Ote, we shocked the entire sports world, but also the wider one, which rightly asked: How is it possible for an irresponsible fan to emotionally break a high-level footballer to tears, using hate speech on racial grounds?
Shame fell on everyone: on the organizer, the club, the attendees, the city, the country, the sport! The only logical conclusion was: “This kind of behavior should not be tolerated in any stadium, in any sport, ever, anywhere.”
And… because of, who knows for the umpteenth time, our sports illiteracy, rightly the reactions to the terrible incident at the basketball game in Kumanovo do not cease, where some irresponsible fans “shot” bullets of hatred at our Albanian fellow citizens, but the wounds they inflicted on all of us, including ourselves. And again we are ashamed.
It was abused on the sports field for "training" in hate speech, for insulting and demonizing with deadly poisonous words - like projectiles!
After so many lost human battles on the sports fields, we must say it clearly and loudly: Never again, wherever we are and whoever we compete with, will we allow the sports field to be transformed into a gladiatorial arena for wild fans.
Of course, the first lesson "how to become a fan" is learned at home, and after it come the others: in kindergarten, elementary school, high school, university, at the club, at matches, in the stands.
Perhaps, for starters, before every match, a warning message should be sent to the public to turn off bad thoughts and words, just as they turn off their phones, because the match is not a battle for life or death, but a knightly duel towards a deserved victory. Support, encouragement and encouragement are expected from the public – not insults and injuries. The best must win, but the other must also be respected. Fandom is a reward, not a punishment.
Let us remember that shame does not fall only on those who utter offensive words, because those words strike not only those in the hall or on the field, but also those who hear and see them, because of their boundless power.
We must oppose fan hatred, cultivate and ennoble fandom, learn and educate ourselves as fans, what fandom is and what it is not, strengthen the fight against prejudice and clashes between "different"; we must get to know and understand each other, prevent outbreaks of hatred, react in time, heal acts of hate and sanction them!
Passionate fandom is never offensive or aggressive. We need an alphabet of fandom as a sporting experience, fan education – because victory in sport is worthless if it is accompanied by physical or verbal aggression.
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