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Yugoslavia Football Riot
How violence at a Red Star Belgrade vs Dinamo Zagreb game heralded the war in Yugoslavia.
In May 1990, a riot broke out at a football match between Red Star Belgrade and Dinamo Zagreb. The violence between rival Serbian and Croatian fans highlighted nationalist tensions in Yugoslavia which would explode into war a year later. Rebecca Kesby talks to sports journalist, Tomislav Zhidak, who was at the game.
PHOTO: The Dinamo Zagreb player, Zvonimir Boban, fights a police officer (AP)
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