The Football Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (NFSBiH) has announced this Friday that it has arranged a friendly match with Russia, with the latter being excluded from any official FIFA and UEFA competition due to the aggression of the Russian state. over Ukraine. However, this has not prevented the Bosnian Federation from accepting an offer to hold a friendly match between the representative teams of these two countries.
NFSBiH announced that it has accepted the offer for the friendly match to take place in Saint Petersburg, on September 19. After that, there were many reactions, as Miralem Pjanic also made one.
The well-known midfielder described this as a bad decision, until he made his position clear again. “I heard about the Federation’s decision. The leaders of the alliance know my position. They called me, asked me what I thought about the game. I said what I thought and then I was surprised by another decision. It is not a good decision”, he said for “Sportske.ba”.
“I am speechless. When the national team starts playing well, something always goes wrong. I am speechless. NFSBiH knows my position. I’ll just say that this is not good”, added the former Barcelona midfielder. According to the medium from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian fans are calling for a boycott of the match. They are also calling for new elections at the Football Association.
“Sportske.ba” also wrote that Miralem Pjanic will not travel to Russia for this match.
