Ukraine’s FA has called on Uefa to investigate footage of a Manchester City fan at the Champions League final in Istanbul who appears to have been hit by an official trying to confiscate the Ukrainian flag he had brought to the stadium.
Yaakov Kris, 30, who lives in Israel but who is originally from Odesa in southern Ukraine, filmed his altercation with two men on the perimeter of the pitch as they attempted to wrestle the flag from him.
At one point, an official wearing Uefa accreditation and Turkish football federation branded clothing, hit Kris, a business analyst, on his hand.
The man also tried to grab Kris’s phone while he was filming the incident. It is unclear why the officials were trying to remove the Ukrainian flag from the stadium.