By Russian football bans continue
Russian football teams have been suspended from ALL competitions, it has been announced.
Yesterday (February 28th), FIFA and UEFA released a joint statement announcing both the Russian national team and Russian clubs would be suspended from all competitions.
The statement reads:
“Following the initial decisions adopted by the FIFA Council and the UEFA Executive Committee, which envisaged the adoption of additional measures, FIFA and UEFA have today decided together that all Russian teams, whether national representative teams or club teams, shall be suspended from participation in both FIFA and UEFA competitions until further notice.
These decisions were adopted today by the Bureau of the FIFA Council and the Executive Committee of UEFA, respectively the highest decision-making bodies of both institutions on such urgent matters.
Football is fully united here and in full solidarity with all the people affected in Ukraine. Both Presidents hope that the situation in Ukraine will improve significantly and rapidly so that football can again be a vector for unity and peace amongst people.”
Moments after UEFA published the statement to their Twitter account, a follow-up tweet announced they would sever ties with Russian state-owned energy company, Gazprom.
What do you think about FIFA and UEFA’s announcement?
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