Since European football federations are collectively opposed to Russia's promotion to the World Cup, FIFA and UEFA have finally announced the decision to ban Russia from participating under careful consideration. This means that russia can not participate in this year's Qatar World Cup, and other top competitions such as the Champions League and Europa League cannot participate, which has hit the Russian football industry hard.
In order to save this situation, the Russian Football Federation is also actively proposing to minimize losses. After all, according to the attitude of FIFA and UEFA, Russia is not only unable to participate this year, for a long time in the future, Russia may not be able to get the opportunity to lift the ban, they will never allow their national team and clubs to be unable to participate in the game for a long time, according to the famous Russian media "gol.ru" report, the Russian Football Association is preparing to break away from the control of UEFA, but to join the AFC, so that things will get a turnaround.
This is because FIFA and UEFA imposed a ban on Russia because of the boycotts of other European countries in Russia, and other countries have no intention of not welcoming Russia. That is to say, as long as it is disassociated from the European team, then this is a win-win situation for everyone, as long as it does not touch its own interests, those European countries will not care which Football Federation Russia goes to seek development, which is also the most fundamental reason for Russia to join the AFC, not to mention that Australia's successful departure from Europe and asia has given the Russian Football Association great confidence.
For the AFC, countries like Russia are very welcome to Come to Asia. After all, Russia's world ranking is high in the 35th, in Asia after the 21st Place Iran, the 23rd Place Japan, the 29th Place South Korea, the development of Asian football is relatively lagging behind, so the AFC is very eager to attract the world's strongest teams to come here, thereby greatly enhancing the popularity of Asian football, making the World Preliminary Tournament, The Asian Cup and other intercontinental events more intense, attracting more fans to watch, so Russia is very likely to get the same results as Australia.
However, for the Chinese team, although Russia is a good friend of the motherland, at the football level, the strength of the national football team is not the same as Russia. You know, the biggest goal of the Chinese team now is to qualify for the 2026 World Cup, when there will be 8.5 promotion places in Asia, and Chen Shuyuan is doing whatever it takes to break into this World Cup to fulfill the wishes of fans. However, with the addition of Russia, the national football team was originally at the Asian level, it could not play the six strong teams of Japan and South Korea, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, and oman and Vietnam have gradually become the mortal enemies of the national football team, so that the national football team has 10 opponents, if you count Russia, the Asian ranking of the national football team is afraid to fall out of the top 10.
Therefore, whether it is Chen Shuyuan, Li Xiaopeng, international footballers or ordinary fans, I am afraid that Russia will really join the AFC, after all, this will seriously damage the prospects of the national football team in the World Cup. Now it seems that the only way for the Chinese team to qualify for the World Cup is to get the right to host the World Cup as soon as possible, to know that this year's Beijing Winter Olympics has been widely praised by the International Olympic Committee and all sectors of society, presumably FIFA will also see China's huge market and national influence, in 2030 or 2034, the Chinese team has the hope to be the host, effortlessly can be among the World Cup, becoming the pride of Chinese fans.