Sport the victim as politics claims historic Serbia, Kosovo handball match


FILE PHOTO: Handball - Men's EHF European Handball Championship - main round Group I - Serbia v Belarus - Arena Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia - January 24, 2018. Bogdan Radivojevic of Serbia reacts after losing the match. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Hopes that sport might foster relations between Serbia and Kosovo where politics has failed proved short-lived on Friday when the threat of violence drove Belgrade to cancel a historic handball match they had been due to contest.

The women’s Under-20 World Championship qualifier would have been the first documented sporting fixture between Serbia and its former province, which declared independence in 2008 and which Belgrade does not recognise as a nation state.

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