Although Vladimir Putin’s army is destroying Ukrainian cities and killing civilians, it is. Eventually, Gianni Infantino bowed and. FIFA and UEFA have excluded Russia and its clubs from international competitions.
Of course, . “FIFA and UEFA had no legal basis when deciding to suspend the Russian teams. It violated the fundamental rights of the Russian federation as a member of FIFA and UEFA, including the right to participate in the competition. In addition, the decision to withdraw the national team from qualification for the 2022 World Cup was made under pressure from direct rivals in play-offs, which violated the principle of sport and fair play “- it was written in the press release.
If the Russian federation loses the case at the Arbitration Tribunal for Sport in Lausanne, it does not have to stay out of the way. There was a new idea how to save Russian sport.
Russia will join football Asia?
The match.tv website reports that the Russians are considering replacing the European federation with an Asian one, i.e. a transfer from UEFA to ACF. For that to happen, Russia would need approval from the ACF and the FIFA Executive Committee. “Russia can fit Asian football. Especially since Russia has no economic path in the coming years other than to steer the economy towards Asia,” the article reads.
It is worth noting that similar situations have already happened in the past. Kazakhstan swapped ACF for UEFA in 2002, and four years later Australia moved from Oceania to Asia. But in the case of Russia, a better example will be Israel, which was expelled from the Asian federation in 1974 for political reasons. To this day, Israelis are competing in Europe.
Source: Sport
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