Midfielders of Switzerland's Granit Jaka and Dzherdan Shakiri can get two-legged disqualification.

This is reported by DW.

In the second round match of the group stage of the World Cup against Serbia, both players after the goals scored showed hands gestures - an eagle with the coat of arms of Kosovo. FIFA initiated an investigation of this issue.

"Switzerland soccer players, ethnic Albanians from Kosovo - Granit Jaka and Dzherdan Shakiri - after the goals scored in the gate of Serbia crossed in a special way hands. In this way they depicted a double-headed eagle with the coat of arms of Kosovo - the former southern Serb province, whose independence was recognized by more than 110 countries, including Serbia, "the message says..

Now the International Football Federation is trying to understand whether these gestures can be considered a provocation.

Note that in this match Switzerland in the last minute won a strong-willed victory over Serbia (2-1).

________________________________ Recall, 9 countries, including Ukraine, Australia, Finland, Japan, Denmark, Iceland, Great Britain, Poland, Sweden, declared a diplomatic boycott of the World Championship in Russia. The reasons for this were the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine and Syria, the poisoning of Russian ex-intelligence agent Sergey Skripal in Britain, the starvation of Ukrainian political prisoners, including the director Oleg Sentsov, and the systematic violation of human rights in the Russian Federation.

Unlimited hunger strike Sentsov announced May 14, 2018. His main demand is the release of more than 60 Ukrainian political prisoners who are behind bars in Russia. This requirement of the director was supported by the US State Department, the EU, the Canadian Parliament and.

In 2015, a Russian court illegally sentenced Sentsov to 20 years in a strict-security colony. The actions in support of the director were held all over the world, including in Russia.