The goal celebrations of two Switzerland players is drawing the attention of FIFA, which is investigating the gestures by the players who are of Albanian-Kosovan heritage.
Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri, who grew up in Switzerland, celebrated with an eagle gesture in an apparent reference to the two-headed eagle on the Albanian flag. Each had scored in Switzerland’s 2-1 victory over Serbia, whose crackdown on the Albanian population was ended by NATO intervention in 1999.
Xhaka’s father was a political prisoner in Yugoslavia for 3 1/2 years spent three and a half years as a political prisoner in Yugoslavia.