In order to "support" Ukraine, FIFA, under the strong pressure of public opinion in the West, had to escalate the punishment of participating in the "Russian Football Union" at the beginning, directly depriving Russia of its qualifications. Although this move was met with dissatisfaction and strong opposition from the Russian Football Federation, FIFA has made a choice.
In this way, the Polish team will directly qualify. The Russian Football Federation said that this act violated the norms and principles of international competitions and also violated the spirit of sportsmanship. It has hurt a large number of athletes, coaches, staff of clubs and national teams, and most importantly millions of Russian and foreign fans.
Not only the Russian Football Federation, but also the Turkish First Division, Erzurum's captain Akut Demir also refused to wear an anti-war T-shirt before the match, because he believed that FIFA had double standard behavior. When civilians in the Middle East are persecuted in the thousands every day, they do nothing.
Former Liverpool striker Stan Collimore also believes the decision to ban Russian athletes from playing is unfair to Russian players. Moreover, "when the United States illegally invaded Iraq, Britain did not drive out the American workers." And now individual Russians are deprived of the right to work reasonably and legally because they were born in that place? ”
However, the Ukrainian Football Association not only strongly supports FIFA's move to ban Russia, but also believes that this way of supporting Ukraine is not enough, and FIFA should let the Ukrainian national team directly qualify!
In an interview with The Whole Market, Barranka, chairman of the Ethics Committee of the Ukrainian Football Association, said: "FIFA should give Ukraine direct access to the Qatar World Cup to send a very clear and important signal."
In his view, although there was no legal basis for this, it would not be opposed by other countries. On the contrary, it will give more encouragement to the Ukrainian people in adversity, and this encouragement will be incredible!
Barranca also said Ukraine is in dire straits right now and they are in no mood to play the play-offs. If Ukraine can be directly qualified, this is definitely a huge support for the desperate Ukraine, which makes people feel that football can also play a huge role in tragedy!
After the request of the Ukrainian Football Association was put forward, it was attacked by many netizens.
"The Ukrainian Football Federation is a robbery of the World Cup.".
"When Syria was still fighting, didn't they still win the national football team?"
"Why doesn't the Ukrainian Football Association directly ask for the World Cup trophy?"
"It turns out that Ukraine is playing a big game: directly into the World Cup"
"The Ukrainian Football Association is really ugly, and the face is not wanted"...
It can be seen that this unreasonable demand of the Ukrainian Football Federation is not, as they say, and will not arouse the opposition of other countries.
It is understood that Ukraine is scheduled to participate in the World Cup qualifiers in the European zone play-offs at the end of March, against Scotland. If Ukraine's unreasonable demands are adopted, they are likely to cause changes to the schedule throughout Europe. This is a great damage to the arrangement of the entire schedule, the deployment of personnel and the preparation of the arena.