Group D
| Home | Away | Total | |||||||||||||
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| Teams | P | W | D | L | W | D | L | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | Pts | |
| 1 |  France | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 12 |
| 2 |  Belarus | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 3 |  Albania | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 4 |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 |  Romania | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 5 |
| 6 |  Luxembourg | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 11 | -10 | 1 |
It would be unfortunate if this were to occur, Bosnia is one of Europe's up and coming nations with the likes of Pjanic and Dzeko, not having these players participate in international competitions would be a shame. All this over the Bosnian FA not complying with president rules outlined by the UEFA. The root cause - ethnic division within the FA. Again, rekindling some old political and ethnic divisions, sad, but reality of what are the Balkans.
Let us hope that Bosnia can at least play out the remainder of the qualifiers and Euro if they qualify. This is similar to what happened to the former Yugoslavia in 1992 when the war disqualified them from the Euros...where replacement nation Denmark went on to win the trophy!
2 comments:
what is the purpose of the FIFA rule? and what is the harm in having 3 heads to the B-H FA? If having 3 presidents helps to sustain ethnic harmony in BH, then FIFA should mind its own business.
I am not sure why FIFA has that rule...then again there are many rules with FIFA that make zero sense! Look at who runs FIFA...
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