Serbia 1-2 Switzerland: Shaqiri scores last-minute winner as Xhaka nets stunning rocket
For Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri, thematch against Serbia was the game of their lives, and the way that both celebrated their goals sent a real message to their opponent.
The two Swiss internationals, of Albanian origin, turned the game around with strikes they will never forget.
Xhaka's father was a political prisoner for three and a half years in the former Yugoslavia, and after leaving prison, his parents went into exile in Switzerland, where he was born in 1992.
Shaqiri was born a year earlier in the Kosovan city of Gnjilane.
Xhaka's father was a political prisoner for three and a half years in the former Yugoslavia, and after leaving prison, his parents went into exile in Switzerland, where he was born in 1992.
Shaqiri was born a year earlier in the Kosovan city of Gnjilane.
In 1992, his parents also left their homeland to settle in Switzerland, in the middle of the Balkan war.
Both made the double Albanian eagle with their hands when scoring, in a celebration full of symbolism and dedicated to their loved ones.
The old wounds between Serbia and Albania also saw an incident in 2014 during a qualifying match for Euro 2016.
That game was suspended due to a feud between the players, the launching of firecrackers and flares from the stands and an attempt to invade the field by Serbian fans after the emergence of a drone with a flag of Greater Albania.
Both made the double Albanian eagle with their hands when scoring, in a celebration full of symbolism and dedicated to their loved ones.
The old wounds between Serbia and Albania also saw an incident in 2014 during a qualifying match for Euro 2016.
That game was suspended due to a feud between the players, the launching of firecrackers and flares from the stands and an attempt to invade the field by Serbian fans after the emergence of a drone with a flag of Greater Albania.
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