Soccer Player Banned From Serbia Team Over Anthem

vis versa.... lol why simply agree with the player? He signed a contract stipulating that he would sing the national anthem, which is suppsoed to represent all the citizens of the country. Look at it this way "God save the Queen" it still to this day (at least indirectly, given parliamentary democracy) is supposed to invoque images of god and the queen aswell as national unity.... The fact that as a player he refuses to participate states he wants to wear the national jersey but singing the anthem for the country in chih he lives in is way too much. So why play for it in the first place? Its no so much hatred but a sense that he doesnt want to indentify himself with teh country but is more than happy to get the benefits he and hsi family enjoys, aswell as a cheque. It would be as if a immigrant born english player from say afghanistan said well i was born in england and lived happily there but now i refuse to sing the anthem based on my poltical view... even though sports is suppsoed to transcend that. This was a big oltical statement in serbia even if it doesnt seem like it to outsiders.

You are right, Serbia's football team does not have "any relevance on a world scale", but this is not the issue here. The issue is that the pro-NATO/US/German political forces have been defeated in Serbia in the latest elections. And therefore the "journalists" working for the RFE/RL have received their instructions from the Capitol Hill to radically change the style of their reporting on the country. If in the days of "their son of a ..." Tadic the reporting was kind of positive, with the new President Nikolic it is going to become much more negative.
It's understandable: those "journalists" do not want to become the next "victime of the crisis" and lose their jobs, like millions of others in NATP countries have already done.

No , i don't agree

importance of Serbian football in really great

Serbia has always given to the world football many champions

although the national team has not won anything

football school in Serbia is on first order

Now you can take him on your Pakistani national team.
Anyway, Muslim from former Yugoslavia find themselves closer to Pakistan then to the people that they become from.