The stadium near Sarajevo will only be able to host 9,000 spectators due to a Fifa sanction: the owners of the houses overlooking the playing field offer their terraces to push the Balkan national team to the World Cup
They call it an epic night because, in Zenica, there isn’t a Bosnian who doesn’t believe in the coup aimed at America. The small stadium in the heart of the industrial city 70 kilometers north of Sarajevo will have a limited capacity: not 15,600 spectators, but just under nine thousand because there is a FIFA sanction to be served. So what? Here’s the latest news these days: the owners of houses overlooking the playing field have rented out their balconies or terraces to create alternative, noisy stands full of people.
Bosnian dream
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Translated: there will be people watching the match from anywhere around the stadium to bring to life the aforementioned epic night they expect in Bosnia. The Zenica facility has already seen us winners: it was November 2019, a match valid for the European Championship qualifiers which we would then win in 2021, 3-0 for us, goals from Belotti, Acerbi, Insigne. Just over six years ago, it was not necessary to rent balconies: eleven seasons later, Bosnians dream of America.
