MOSCOW, Feb 24 Swedish Football Association President Carl-Erik Nilsson said, which does not imagine the option of holding the 2022 World Cup play-offs in Russia. A play-off between the national teams of Russia and Poland is scheduled for March 24 in Moscow. In case of victory, the team of Valery Karpin will meet the strongest in the meeting between the national teams of Sweden and the Czech Republic. «The scenario of a meeting with the Russian team is possible. When we woke up this morning, the thought spontaneously arose that it was almost unthinkable to hold a football match in Russia in a few weeks. Judging by the fact that what is happening, today there is absolutely no desire to hold games in Russia,» Reuters quotes Nilsson. Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in the Donbass. He stressed that circumstances require Moscow to take «decisive and immediate action, the people's republics of Donbass turned to Russia with a request for help.» nothing threatens. Recall that the Russian team took second place in group H, losing a direct ticket to the 2022 World Cup to the Croatian team.
