The best football referee in Bosnia and Herzegovina Irfan Peljto who was mentioned as the justice of the meeting Hajduk and Dynamo because of death threats to him and his family, he asked that he Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina does not delegate for domestic championship matches in which they perform Sarajevo and Željezničar.
Peljto reported to the MUP of Sarajevo County that he had received several threatening messages from unknown numbers with photos of his wife and son. After that, this Sarajevo resident reported everything to the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which he asked not to delegate him to the matches of the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which the teams of Sarajevo and Ironside are playing. On Wednesday, the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina spoke out and condemned in the strongest terms any kind of pressure on officials and expressed deep concern about the threats that have occurred in recent times.
– We hereby invite the competent authorities to take appropriate measures to prevent such cases, and to prosecute all those responsible and stand in the protection of our best football referee, as well as all officials in the Football Association competitions. Bosnia and Herzegovina – it is stated in the press release.
The Sarajevo native was one of the candidates for refereeing the biggest Croatian derby between Hajduk and Dinamo, which will be played in Split on Saturday. This year, as the first referee from BiH, Irfan Peljto officiated the Champions League round of 16 match between Leipzig and Real, and in the middle of the month, the match between Fiorentina and Maccabi in Florence.
This season, he refereed 12 matches in the elite football competition of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sarajevo is currently in fifth place in the ranking, and Zcaron;eljezničar is in 10th place in the Premier League of BiH and is close to the relegation zone.