New Incident: Coach Gets Yellow Card for Speaking Slovenian

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SAK's Tormann coach spoke to an opponent of Slovenian, the line judge asked him to speak German. The club is "deeply affected", the referee college asks for an apology

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At a football match in Klagenfurt on Saturday, the referee asked the coach of a Slovenian club to speak German to the players.

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At a football match in Klagenfurt on Saturday, the referee asked the coach of a Slovenian club to speak German to his players, even though the rules of the football association allow communication in any language. He also showed a yellow card for speaking Slovenian.

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A new incident in Carinthia, Austria. During Friday's football match between SAK Klagenfurt and Atus Ferlach, the coach of the Klagenfurt team received a yellow card for speaking Slovenian to the opponent.

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The assistant referee asked one of the SAK team coaches to speak German.

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The Slovenian Foreign Ministry today expressed solidarity with the SAK club from Klagenfurt and the national minority in Austria on the X network, following renewed expressions of intolerance towards the Slovenian language in the Austrian region of Carinthia. The response follows Saturday's football match, in which the referee asked the coach of the Slovenian club to speak German to the players.