Due to the Russian-Ukrainian war, Poland, Sweden, the Czech Republic and other teams have called for refusal to play with Russia, because the World Preliminary Round European Play-off will be held at the end of March, Poland will play against Russia, the winner will have another match with the winners of Sweden and the Czech Republic, resulting in a qualifying place.
So, if Poland, Sweden and the Czech Republic all refuse to play against Russia, this set of play-offs will not be played, and if this really happens, how the qualifying quota will be generated, there are various theories. Because the other group has Italy, Portugal, Turkey and Macedonia, each group can only qualify one team, then Italy and Portugal will definitely eliminate a team, in extreme cases, even two teams will be eliminated, Portugal has the ball king C Ronaldo, Italy is the 2021 European Championship Novelty Champion, the two teams have countless fans around the world, so some fans are even fantasizing, will there be a new format, so portugal and Italy have the opportunity to qualify.
But all this seems impossible again, and in the early hours of this morning, FIFA issued a statement that Russia's "home" matches will be played in a neutral position; Russia's member associations will participate in the name of "Russian Football Union" and not in the name of "Russia".
That is to say, the World Preliminary Tournament play-offs in Russia will be played normally, but the name will be changed, just like the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Russia, although banned, actually sent teams to participate.
The whole of Europe, and even most of the other continents of the world, still hope that Russia can be banned by FIFA, but FIFA braved the world and still let Russia participate, which is really jaw-dropping.
Now, this matter is far from over, because Poland has been invaded by the Russians in history, lewandowski has repeatedly disclosed that he will not compete with Russia, so if Poland abstains, Russia will automatically win? What about Sweden and the Czech Republic abstaining, and Russia continuing to win? That's how it got to the 2022 World Cup.
So there was a paragraph on the Internet, waiting for the 2022 World Cup, because the teams refused to compete with Russia, the Russian team finally reached the final and finally won the World Cup. Of course, this is only a paragraph, and by then the Russo-Ukrainian War should have ended long ago.
And if Poland really withdraws, things will be very serious, FIFA is also very likely to change its existing policy, so everything is still unknown, let's first look at the recent trend of the Russian-Ukrainian war, and the results of the game at the end of March, the first round of play-offs, everything will come to light. It was only FIFA that fought against the world and did not outlaw Russia's World Preliminary Tournament qualification, and Portugal and Italy were heartbroken.