She believes that Fifa and UEFA had “no legal basis“to record this withdrawal, decided”under pressure“rival federations like the Polish association. She also regrets not having been able to present her position before the authorities.
As soon as this decision by the international football authorities was published on Monday, the Russian Federation had denounced the effects “discriminatory“of the measure”on a large number of athletes, coaches, club employees or the national team“.
Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin, for his part, announced a similar appeal to sports justice to reinstate Russia in the Paralympic Winter Games, which open on Friday, hoping to obtain a decision “before the opening ceremony“while Russian (and Belarusian) athletes have been excluded by the International Paralympic Committee.
The 2022 FIFA World Cup, a major sporting event of the year, is being held from November 21 to December 18, and the Russians had a chance of qualifying for it, if they won their two play-off matches scheduled for the end of March.
Russia, host of the last World Cup in 2018, has been the target of multiple sanctions from the sports world since the launch of the military intervention in Ukraine, between canceled competitions, athletes and teams not grata and broken sponsorship contracts.
